The Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball’s foremost authority on the Rookie of the Year award, didn’t exactly have a memorable campaign on the subject in 2025, but still found a way to sneak at least one player into the voting poll. Jack Dreyer received two top 5 votes in the National League, with Braves catcher Drake Baldwin comfortably beating out Cubs’ starter Cade Horton to win the award.

Playing well enough to win the starting gig over the veteran Sean Murphy, Baldwin was one of three Atlanta Braves with an OPS north of .800. The rookie backstopper was one of the few positives in a down year for an Atlanta team that fell way short of making the playoffs. Chicago started the year with Shota Imanaga and Justin Steele as their top two starters, but Matthew Boyd and the rookie Hort

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