Frayed Knot wrote: He's a Twenty-first Century Ray He's a ... Top SS prospect Wander Franco -- #1 across the board in both pre-2020 & pre-2021 -- will make his ML debut tonight for Tampa Bay against Boston. So what's so significant? DOB: 3/1/2001, making him the first ML'er to be born in the 21st century. Someone (probably Kurkjian) has already gone back and figured out who the initial 20th century guy was. The most-recently born Met, in case you were wondering, is Andres Gimenez. September 4, 1998.