I've been describing Enric Mas as the new Carlos Sastre for a long time now. It took Sastre until he had double figures of GT top 10s before he finally won one and that was with the benefit of a lot of major riders being absent for a variety of reasons. But his class was self-evident throughout his career and he was never bad - but his lack of explosivity meant he had very little by way of one-day palmarès and limited short stage racing results, so he lived and died by what he produced in the Grand Tours.
Sastre was not afraid to go all-in from pretty far out
Crashed leading the race on the stage to Murcia in the 2001 Vuelta
Attacked from far out on the last climb on the stage to La Plagne in the 2002 Tour
Attacked on the Mirador del Fito in the 2003 Vuelta
Attacked from pretty far out on the last climb on the Covadonga in the 2005 Vuelta
Toussuire and Joux-Plane in the 2006 Tour
Attacked from very far out on the stage to Gourette in the 2007 Tour
The day when he dislodged Efimkin from 2nd in the 2007 Vuelta
Mas may be the new Sastre, but I would also add that he is a far more boring version