Neutral baseball fans spent the last decade flipping around their MLB Extra Innings package looking for the next mammoth blast from the best juiced-up sluggers. With all the warning-track power that I've seen this season (Little Papi!), that era seems to be nearing its end.

So what's left? Young, power arms with filthy stuff and the attitude to match. Pitchers are starting to get their feet back under them. Other than Pedro Martinez, we had an entire generation of chuck-and-duck hurlers.

As the song goes, "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me and I'm feeling good."

Here's my list ranking the best starting pitchers 26 and younger (K/9 = strikeouts per 9 innings). For the complete list with analysis, check out https://moore.ibndata.com/post/2009/05/16/Fire-Me-Up.aspx: