The answer is B) Babe Ruth.

Baseball Magazine wrote it following Ruth’s abyssmal 1922 performance, when he went 2-17 with no homers and 1 RBI. His OPS in the five games was .426.

Ruth would go on to play in five more World Series (1923, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932), in which he would hit 14 homers and drive in 25.

The quote comes from Robert Weintraub’s “The House that Ruth Built,” pg. 61.

For the record, here are the post-season OPSs for the players mentioned above:

Ruth: 1.211
Jeter: .838
Rodriguez: .833
DiMaggio: .760

I was going to say that it had to be Ruth or DiMaggio just because of the deployment of the word “youngster.”