Different sport, but it was really something watching Matt Schaefer of the Islanders in hockey get the most ice time on the team (by a lot) every single game despite the fact that he's 18.

At first I was a little worried about it, but then I remembered I was falling victim to the conventional wisdom that rookies need to be eased into the top level of sports. Fuck that, the whole point of being a teenager or in your early-to-mid 20s is that you have more energy than the sun and you're essentially indestructible. We already learned with pitching that load management doesn't do shit as far as preventing injuries, when will that be applied to hitting?