Our All-Time #MLBRank Top 100 offers a definitive ordering of the greatest names in the game's history. In whittling down 162 players on the ballot to 100, the criteria used by our panel were peak performance and career value. But what about today's young stars Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw, Bryce Harper and others who have a chance to climb the rankings in future years? Using ZiPS WAR projections, we can get an idea of where they might land when their careers are over.
I took the seven active players under age 30 on the #MLBRank ballot, listed below in order of projected career WAR: Trout, Kershaw, Harper, Chris Sale, Andrew McCutchen, Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner.