Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Mel Ott, Jimmie Fox, Ted Williams - those are all some great names in the world of baseball and an amazing talent lineup. Those were also all the top 5 players in WAR by the age of 24 before Mike Trout came around. This weekend while the Angels were embarrassing the Astros in a 3 win series victory, Mike Trout passed Ty Cobb to sit on top of that list and bump them all down one spot.
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Many of this saw this coming as Trout was inching closer and closer to that 47.