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MLB 2026: Ranking best players at every age from 16 to 25

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One of the challenges of following baseball as a fan or as a prospect evaluator is keeping track of the pools of players at all different levels, ages and countries. With that in mind, here is our third ranking of the best baseball players on Earth by birth year.

Scouts and the public will often talk about baseball players in rookie classes, draft classes or international signing classes, occasionally ranking players by age or level, but very rarely in terms of when they were born, which is a great way to track movement over time among the same group of players.