Rookie Rundown After 16 Games

Deep into the season now, and all teams finally are matched up at an equal sixteen games played. We had an MVP-for-each-team article lined up, but yesterday's trades made that obsolete. Quick to adapt: instead our rookie of the year forecast gets pushed up. All rookies hit. Not all rookies pitch. So, we'll just look at hitting stats for the time being. Nine hitting stats are ranked individually (hits, batting average, on-base percentage, total bases, slugging percentage, runs batted in, plate appearances per RBI, home runs, and at-bats per home run), then an overall average of those rankings is taken to estimate who would be rookie of the year in the present day.
# PLAYER H
1) Caden Irwin 13
2) Preston Baker 9
3) Grady Baker 8
4) Will Burchfield 6
5) Blake Sell 2
# PLAYER AVG
1) Will Burchfield .316
2) Caden Irwin .200
3) Preston Baker .155
4) Grady Baker .127
5) Blake Sell .069
# PLAYER OBP
1) Will Burchfield .519
2) Blake Sell .357
3) Preston Baker .355
4) Caden Irwin .350
5) Grady Baker .225
# PLAYER TB
1) Caden Irwin 23
2) Preston Baker 15
3) Grady Baker 14
4) Will Burchfield 14
5) Blake Sell 2
# PLAYER SLG
1) Will Burchfield .474
2) Caden Irwin .354
3) Preston Baker .259
4) Grady Baker .222
5) Blake Sell .069
# PLAYER RBI
1) Caden Irwin 14
2) Preston Baker 8
3) Grady Baker 7
4) Will Burchfield 4
5) Blake Sell 0
# PLAYER PA/RBI
1) Caden Irwin 5.7
2) Will Burchfield 6.8
3) Preston Baker 9.5
4) Grady Baker 10.1
5) Blake Sell n/a
# PLAYER HR
1) Caden Irwin 3
2) Grady Baker 2
2) Preston Baker 2
4) Will Burchfield 1
5) Blake Sell 0
# PLAYER AB/HR
1) Will Burchfield 19.0
2) Caden Irwin 21.7
3) Preston Baker 29.0
4) Grady Baker 31.5
5) Blake Sell n/a
Burchfield holds the edge in percentage stats, to be sure. However, he lacks the plate appearances to really be considered for the award so far. Irwin's played in 13 of his team's 16 games, is first in most of the counting stats, and also toward the top in all percentage stats. The final rookie of the Year likely will be a race between these two... as long as Will makes it to 60 PA. Grady and Preston Baker had flirted with the potential early on, but both waned. They'll need a huge uptick, now being Islanders, to reengage.
PLAYER H
RANK		 AVG
RANK		 OBP
RANK		 TB
RANK		 SLG
RANK		 RBI
RANK		 PA/RBI
RANK		 HR
RANK		 AB/HR
RANK		 OA
RANK
Caden Irwin 1 2 4 1 2 1 1 1 2 1.67
Will Burchfield 4 1 1 4 1 4 2 4 1 2.44
Preston Baker 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 2.56
Grady Baker 3 4 5 4 4 3 4 2 4 3.67
Blake Sell 5 5 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 4.67