Rookie - wikipedia Rookie This article is about the term. For the online magazine, see Rookie ( magazine ). For the professional poker player, see Brian Wilson ( poker player ). For other uses, see The Rookie and Rookies ( disambiguation ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2007 ) A rookie is a person in the first year of activity in a sport, or someone new to a profession, training, or activity such as a rookie police officer, rookie pilot, a recruit, or occasionally a freshman. Contents 1 Throughout sports 1.1 Auto racing 1.2 Baseball 2 Etymology 3 See also 4 References Throughout sports This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( December 2011 ) In some sports there are traditions in which rookies must do things, or tricks are played on them. Examples in baseball include players having to dress up in very strange costumes, or getting hit in the face with a cream pie ; a traditional rookie 's `` hazing '' procedure in American football involves taping players to a goalpost and dousing them with ice water, Gatorade, and other substances. Auto racing Scott Speed 's car with the yellow rookie stripes In NASCAR, rookies are denoted by a yellow stripe on the rear bumper of the car that is placed on both sides of the name or symbol of the manufacturer of the car. Baseball To qualify as a rookie in Major League Baseball, a player must not have exceeded 130 at bats or fifty innings pitched in the majors, and also fewer than 45 days on the active rosters of major league clubs ( excluding time on the disabled list or any time after rosters are expanded on September 1 ) in their previous seasons. Major League Baseball awards the best rookie with the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award, as voted upon by the Baseball Writers ' Association of America. Etymology Look up rookie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the origins are uncertain, but that perhaps it is a corruption of the word recruit. The earliest example in the OED is from Rudyard Kipling 's Barrack - Room Ballads ( published 1892 ) : So ' ark an ' ' eed, you rookies, which is always grumblin ' sore, referring to rookies in the sense of raw recruits to the British Army. At least during the beginning of the 20th century, in the British Army the term `` rookie '' was typically used in place of `` recruit '' as exemplified in `` Trenching at Gallipoli '' by John Gallishaw ( New York Century Co. : 1916 ) and in `` The Amateur Army '' by Patrick MacGill ( London, Herbert Jenkins : 1915 ). Perhaps the expression is derived from `` rook '', whereby a `` rookie '' would be someone who is cheated or defrauded. See also Rookie of the Year ( award ) -- an award given to an athlete following the first year of full competition, for more impressive performance and / or better results than all other rookies that season. Freshman Novice References Jump up ^ NOTEBOOK : Panthers break camp - CarolinaGrowl.com Jump up ^ `` 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year ''. Jayski 's Silly Season Site. Retrieved February 26, 2015. Jump up ^ `` MLB Miscellany : Rules, regulations and statistics ''. Major League Baseball. Retrieved June 5, 2012. Jump up ^ John Simpson and Edmund Weiner ( editors ) : Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, Clarendon Press, 1989, ISBN 0 - 19 - 861186 - 2. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rookie&oldid=809213832 '' Categories : Beginners and newcomers Sports competitors Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from August 2007 All articles needing additional references Articles to be expanded from December 2011 All articles to be expanded Articles using small message boxes Talk Contents About Wikipedia Brezhoneg Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano עברית Nederlands Norsk Português Svenska Tagalog Edit links This page was last edited on 7 November 2017, at 20 : 17. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: when are you considered a rookie in mlb
Answer: must not have exceeded 130 at bats or fifty innings pitched in the majors, and also fewer than 45 days on the active rosters of major league clubs (excluding time on the disabled list or any time after rosters are expanded on September 1) in their previous seasons