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With designated hitters rounding out our look at the league's top position players, the B/R MLB 300 now moves to the mound for our list of starting pitchers.

There are quite a few talented starting pitchers out there these days, so our countdown will contain 80 of our 300 overall players. Like position players, we rated them using a scoring system that adds up to 100 possible points.

1. Why should you send a greeting card to Canada?

Welcome back, Canada! The Toronto Blue Jays end their 22-year postseason drought, longest in the majors, when they host the Texas Rangers in a division series. Last time a postseason game was played in Canada, Joe Carter was floating around as if the SkyDome (that's what they called it back then, really) was the moon and there was no gravity.

Thanks to the Texas Rangers, the Houston Astros earned a spot in the Wild Card Game.

Thanks to the Arizona Diamondbacks, the New York Yankees have home-field advantage for that game.

The Astros earned their spot in the playoffs when the Rangers knocked off the Los Angeles Angels 9-2 in their series finale and eliminated Mike Trout and Co. from postseason consideration.

October baseball is notoriously difficult to predict, but Corey Seager and Marcus Stroman both look like big leaguers who are on the doorstep of becoming breakout stars during the 2015 MLB postseason.

In the process of picking the list that follows, there was one main rule: no All-Stars allowed. The thought process was simple: If a given player has taken part in the Midsummer Classic, he's already a star by definition.

The Los Angeles Angels’ 2015 season came to an end Sunday when they lost to the Texas Rangers, and they immediately turned their attention to the future in the aftermath.

The first order of business for the offseason is to establish a new general manager, and late Sunday the team named Billy Eppler to the vacant position.

The San Diego Padres finished with a 42-54 record under interim manager Pat Murphy, which wasn't enough for him to secure the job on a full-time basis next year. The team announced on the final day of the regular season, per Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune, that Murphy will not return as manager next year.

Although the Houston Astros were unable to clinch a playoff berth with a win of their own Sunday, they still qualified for an American League Wild Card Game showdown with the New York Yankees.

Thanks to the Los Angeles Angels' loss to the Texas Rangers, Houston is the second team from the AL West to qualify for the postseason despite a 5-3 defeat at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks, setting up a win-or-go-home scenario in the Bronx against pro baseball's most decorated franchise.

The MLB regular season has come to a close, leaving some intriguing questions going into the postseason.

Is Gerrit Cole ready to guide the Pittsburgh Pirates on a deep run? Will Jake Arrieta be able to match his current form in the playoffs?

Watch as Stephen Nelson joins MLB on TBS analysts Dusty Baker, Gary Sheffield and Pedro Martinez to review the burning questions about baseball's postseason in the video above.

They say everything is bigger in Texas. This year, that includes the number of teams heading into the MLB playoffs.

The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates have been two of the best teams in baseball all season, and they'll wage one more battle this year in order to determine who owns the wild-card spot in the National League.

Grantland's Rany Jazayerli argued this year's wild-card matchup is further evidence in support of the current playoff structure: