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During the 2019 playoffs, the growing narrative of Gleyber Torres‘ excellence combined with extreme youth seemed to tire the national audience. However, the broadcasts had reason to keep singing the infielder’s praises. Torres had just hit 38 home runs, finishing the 13th year ever with at least 38 homers in an age-22 season or younger. Six of the other 12 were from Hall of Famers. Recent MVP Bryce Harper had done it, and that season’s NL MVP Cody Bellinger had, too. Multi-MVP winners Juan Gonzalez and Alex Rodriguez helped round out the list, along with barbecue enthusiast Boog Powell and Ron…