Manny Machado is the Best Under 25 Oriole Ever (with Cal Ripken Jr.)

Brady Anderson met with reporters during FanFest and gave answers that sounded like they would be appropriate at Manny Machado's wake.  For instance he declared:

[Machado] was our guy. You couldn’t have gotten a better six years out of anybody. He was an Oriole great. I mean, the youngest Oriole great in the history of the franchise. So we’ve gotten quite a bit out of him in the years he’s been here.

For those a bit taken back by Anderson's statement and his apparent conviction that former teammate Cal Ripken Jr. is not the best young Orioles in franchise history, lets take a look at the top thirty Orioles by bWAR, ages 24 and below:

Rk	Player	WAR/pos	From	To
1	Manny Machado	27.9	2012	2017
	Cal Ripken		1981	1985
3	Eddie Murray	16.8	1977	1980
4	Milt Pappas	15.5	1957	1963
5	Bobby Grich	15.3	1970	1973
6	Nick Markakis	14	2006	2008
7	Boog Powell	12.9	1961	1966
	Jim Palmer		1965	1970
8	Mike Mussina	12	1991	1993
	Storm Davis		1982	1986
10	Paul Blair	11.3	1964	1968
11	Curt Blefary	10.2	1965	1968
12	Brooks Robinson	9.1	1955	1961
13	Adam Jones	7.2	2008	2010
14	Gregg Olson	7	1988	1991
15	Steve Barber	6.7	1960	1962
16	Chuck Estrada	6.3	1960	1962
17	Sidney Ponson	6.1	1998	2001
18	Don Baylor	5.7	1970	1973
19	Ben McDonald	5.3	1989	1992
20	Jim Hardin	5.2	1967	1968
21	Jerry Walker	5.1	1957	1960
	Ron Hansen		1958	1962
23	Jonathan Schoop	5	2013	2016
24	Rich Coggins	4.6	1972	1974
25	Dylan Bundy	4.5	2012	2017
	Bob Milacki		1988	1989
27	Dave McNally	4.3	1962	1967
	Luis Matos		2000	2003
29	Matt Wieters	4	2009	2010
	Ross Grimsley		1974	1974

Yes, Manny Machado comes out as the best under 25 player in Orioles history, tied with Cal Ripken, Jr.  It is also interesting to note that the club currently employs four of the 30 players on this list.  In general, the Orioles have tended to keep their young players, but the record is obviously more mixed once free agency set in.

What about overall during the franchise lifetime of the Orioles (since 1954).

Rk	Player	WAR/pos	From	To
1	Mike Trout	48.5	2011	2016
2	Alex Rodriguez	38	1994	2000
3	Bert Blyleven	37.4	1970	1975
4	Ken Griffey	37	1989	1994
5	Al Kaline	33.9	1954	1959
6	Frank Tanana	31.3	1973	1978
7	Andruw Jones	31	1996	2001
8	Vada Pinson	30.9	1958	1963
9	Johnny Bench	30.7	1967	1972
	Dwight Gooden		1984	1989
11	Hank Aaron	29.9	1954	1958
12	Frank Robinson	29.7	1956	1960
13	Albert Pujols	29.2	2001	2004
	Cesar Cedeno	29.2	1970	1975
15	Don Drysdale	28.9	1956	1961
16	Rickey Henderson	28.1	1979	1983
17	Dennis Eckersley	28	1975	1979
18	Manny Machado	27.9	2012	2017
	Cal Ripken	27.9	1981	1985

That is impressive: 18th overall.  When you look at the more recent players, you do see a mix of players who stayed or left.  Mike Trout and all of his awesomeness has stayed with the Angels.  Andruw Jones stayed as well as Albert Pujols and Cal Ripken Jr.  Really the only recent guys who left were Alex Rodriguez and Rickey Henderson.