Bo Bichette, New York Mets
Bo Bichette was "born" to play baseball; his father, Dante, played professionally for several teams in the 1990s and early 2000s. The Toronto Blue Jays drafted Bo in the 2016 draft. After a few seasons in the Blue Jays' minor league system, Bo was promoted to the major league club in 2019. He promptly set a major league record by doubling in nine straight games; that streak also made Bo the first rookie since Ted Williams (1939) with 9 straight games with an extra-base hit. He helped lead the Blue Jays to the World Series in 2025, but the team lost to the Dodgers in 7 games. Following the season, Bichette, a free agent, signed a three-year contract with the Mets.
Bo has been very open about his faith throughout his baseball career. Prior to game 3 of last year's World Series, he stated: "[His Christian faith] is everything. My whole life, I've prayed to stay grounded through all this. Through accomplishments and through failures. There's no way that I could stay close to who I have been my whole life without God." During his rookie season with the Blue Jays, he described himself as "a believer who happens to play ball."
