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Which Young MLB Players Will Break Out In 2013?
Boston Red Sox's Jackie Bradley, right, hits a seventh-inning RBI double against the New York Yankees in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday, April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Boston Red Sox's Jackie Bradley, right, hits a seventh-inning RBI double against the New York Yankees in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday, April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

There is no questioning the importance of young talent in baseball today. With contract values for free agents skyrocketing and teams falling over themselves to extend the productive players they bring up on their own, young talent is even more important than usual. As teams have come to recognize that an inexpensive, cost-controlled prospect just might be worth pushing to the bigs in his early or mid 20s instead of paying for a veteran free agent to do the same job, we've seen what seems like an endless stream of talent pour out of the minors and into the majors.

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