Our mission: Identify which MLB team has the most elite young talent heading into the 2017 season.
First things first, we needed to determine what constitutes "young talent," and for the sake of this exercise, we focused strictly on players 25 years old or younger.
That age was based on how old a player will be on June 30 of the upcoming season.
From there, we needed to come up with some sort of scoring system to make it easy to compare all 30 teams based on their young talent.
Here's what we came up with:
- Established MLB Stars (10 points): Players with at least one 5.