1.   A draft pick will help but there is only so much a rookie can do.

2.   But instead of doing what any headstrong rookie with a fast car would do, Gordon drove as smartly as an old-timer.

3.   But no other rookie does more for his team than the Minnesota guard.

4.   But the Pittsburgh rookie does it all.

5.   Evidentally rookies do, too.

6.   He did hit the wall in March, but most rookies do.

7.   I thought the rookies did a great job under the circumstances.

8.   Martinez, who has helped Cruz adjust to the majors, said the rookie is doing just fine.

9.   Strickland can joke, but the rookie has done very little to get himself in trouble.

10.   Still, those are problems for down the line, along with the question of how all these fresh and untainted rookies will do at running city government.