This is our fourth annual collection of baseball’s young stars and there are plenty of new names making their debut.

Soto is one of eight players in MLB history with an OPS+ of 160 or better through his age-25 season (minimum 3,000 plate appearances through age-25 season) -- the others are Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, ...

The late Buck O’Neil, who will be belatedly inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer, once said of Charleston, “He was Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” Charleston, who played ...

A frequent refrain is to note that Charleston had a bat like Babe Ruth’s, along with the aggression and tenacity of Ty Cobb. Oscar Charleston: The bat of Ruth; defense of Tris Speaker & tenacity of ...