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Ranking Cubs' top young position players

They come. They don't go.

Theo Epstein said he wanted to build a "player-development machine'' when the Cubs hired him as their president of baseball operations in 2011, and he's done exactly that. So many impactful position players have arrived in the past two years that you might feel you can't keep track of them.

So, we did. We also ranked them in the order of their potential career WAR (based on career WAR to date, adjusted per 150 games played). Then we looked ahead two more years and found seven more position players who could arrive at Wrigley Field within the next two years.