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Angels superstar Mike Trout was born on August 7, 1991. So let's allow Mom to give the proper wishes:

Debbie's son has accomplished more through age 23 than most players in the history of baseball.

Happy Birthday, Mike Trout.
Happy Birthday, Mike Trout. (USATSI)

To illustrate as much, let's take a look at how Mike Trout currently stacks up in several categories through his age-23 season, which is not over yet (baseball ages by season are determined by the player's age on June 30 -- so Trout can add to these totals through the end of the 2015 regular season).

Again, this is all through age-23 in MLB history with a big hat-tip to baseball-reference.com's play index.

Runs

1. Mel Ott, 582
2. Ted Williams, 541
3. Buddy Lewis, 517
4. Mickey Mantle, 510
5. Alex Rodriguez, 493
6. Ty Cobb, 471
7. Vada Pinson, 466
8. Jimmie Foxx, 461
9. Freddie Lindstrom, 457
10. Trout, 449

Home runs

1. Eddie Mathews, 153
1. Mel Ott, 153
3. Alex Rodriguez, 148
4. Frank Robinson, 134
5. Ken Griffey Jr., 132
6. Trout, 130

Times on base

1. Mel Ott, 1373
2. Ted Williams, 1265
3. Buddy Lewis, 1261
4. Al Kaline, 1215
5. Ken Griffey Jr., 1193
6. Ty Cobb, 1182
7. Mickey Mantle, 1165
8. Robin Yount, 1119
9. Trout, 1076

Walks

1. Ted Williams, 495
2. Mel Ott, 462
3. Mickey Mantle, 412
4. Eddie Mathews, 380
5. Eddie Yost, 365
6. Jimmie Foxx, 344
7. Rickey Henderson, 331
8. Trout, 320

Extra-base hits

1. Mel Ott, 342
2. Alex Rodriguez, 319
3. Ken Griffey Jr., 317
4. Ted Williams, 314
5. Jimmie Foxx, 290
6. Trout, 288

He's also 22nd in hits, 18th in doubles, 19th in steals, 20th in RBI and 12th in total bases. Again, we need to keep in mind that the Angels have 55 games left this season and Trout can add to the above. 

OPS+ (among players with at least 500 PA)

1. Ted Williams, 190
2. Shoeless Joe Jackson, 186
3. Frank Thomas, 179
4. Ty Cobb, 171
5. Babe Ruth, 170
6. Trout, 169
6. Stan Musial, 169

Among players with at least 500 plate appearances through their age-23 seasons, Trout ranks 73rd in average, 28th in on-base percentage, 15th in slugging percentage and 13th in OPS. Of course, offense is way down, which is why the OPS+ tool is always a good one to adjust for the climate when attempting to compare different eras (Dead Ball era vs. the so-called Steroid Era, for example).

Trout's 86.15 percent success rate on stolen bases is first (just ahead of Tim Raines at 85.71 percent) among players with at least 100 steals here, but caught stealing data wasn't kept until 1938 and through 1974 it is incomplete.

Wins Above Replacement, position players

Yeah, we're gonna do this. Kick and scream about it being a "made-up stat" all you wish.

Baseball-reference.com version:

1. Ty Cobb, 36
2. Trout, 34.8
3. Ted Williams, 34.2
4. Mel Ott, 31.4
5. Ken Griffey Jr., 30.1
6. Mickey Mantle, 29.7
7. Alex Rodriguez, 27.7
8. Al Kaline, 27.5
9. Arky Vaughan, 26.7
10. Rogers Hornsby, 26.5

Fangraphs version:

1. Ted Williams, 36.4
2. Ty Cobb, 36.2
3. Trout, 35.7
4. Mel Ott, 33.2
5. Mickey Mantle, 29.5
6. Ken Griffey Jr., 28.1
7. Arky Vaughan, 26.9
8. Shoeless Joe Jackson, 26.9
9. Eddie Mathews, 26.7
10. Al Kaline, 26.2

Speaking of stats the hardcore old schoolers hate ...

Win Probability Added

1. Trout, 20.858
2. Mickey Mantle, 20.687
3. Cesar Cedeno, 17.219
4. Ken Griffey Jr., 14.536
5. Albert Pujols, 14.489

Trout already has a Rookie of the Year, an MVP, two runner-up finishes in MVP voting, two All-Star Game MVPs, four trips to the All-Star Game and could well be working on another MVP. He's led the league in runs three times, RBI once, steals once, walks once and this season leads in home runs and slugging percentage.

He turned 24 today.