Sports Illustrated has a nice pictorial up of the top 20 young hitters in baseball. The Marlins' Miguel Cabrera comes in at number 3 (and I think you could make a case for him to be as high as number 2).
What I found most interesting was the note about Baseball Reference's most comparable players to Cabrera at this age (a list that I always love to look at). The list compares a player to all other current and past major leaguers - based on their statistics and age. Here are Miguel's comparables through age 21 (coming into the year):
- Hank Aaron *
- Ruben Sierra (a)
- Sam Crawford *
- Dick Kokos
- Mickey Mantle *
- Joe Medwick *
- Whitey Lockman
- Mike Tiernan
- Andruw Jones (a)
- Greg Luzinski
Having four Hall of Famers on your list of ten most comparable players is pretty impressive (including two - Mantle and Aaron - who would be in a Hall of Fame of Hall of Famers). Just one more thing that confirms that Cabrera really could be something special.