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As we enter one of the final weeks of the MLB regular season, the time is now to figure out which players are the best options for daily fantasy baseball. Tuesday's MLB action features a full slot of games, which allows fantasy owners to make some tough decisions when setting a daily fantasy baseball lineup.

The upcoming postseason may be the main focus of the baseball world right now, but as the regular season winds down the debate over who should win each of the league's major awards generally starts to heat up.

Bryce Harper and Josh Donaldson look to be the front-runners to win their respective league MVP awards heading into the final week, but they are by no means the only candidates.

The following won't focus on each league as a whole, though, but instead on who deserves team MVP honors for all 30 MLB teams.

Being mentioned in trade rumors, much less traded from one team to another, can be a deflating experience for a player. On one hand, it's disheartening to think your current team no longer wants you around. On the other, it's flattering to know another team thinks you can help it win.

As the 2015 MLB playoff picture comes into focus, let's take a moment to identify several injured stars whose health will be determining factors in October.

Over the next few slides, we'll rank various postseason injury comebacks around the league in order of importance. What makes a player's return more important than another? Talent is an obvious factor, but aspects like position depth, leadership and production prior to injury will all be taken into account. 

1. Washington Nationals: Fight Club

From the Stephen Strasburg Shutdown to naming a manager with no experience as a replacement for Davey Johnson, no organization has swaggered forward more cocksure while believing in itself than the Nationals.

Years from now, we will look back at the video of Jonathan Papelbon's dugout choking of Bryce Harper as the overriding symbol of a 2015 season gone way off the rails.

Three years ago, the Houston Astros lost 107 games, and the Chicago Cubs lost 101. The Kansas City Royals were finishing their fourth straight 90-loss season, their eighth in nine years. The Pittsburgh Pirates were making North American sports history with their 20th-straight losing season.

Quick, who won last season's Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award? No fair looking it up.

If your answer was, "I had no idea that award existed," you aren't alone. Despite increasing acceptance of advanced defensive metrics and a league-wide emphasis on glove work and run prevention, baseball still doesn't have a defensive prize on par with the Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards.

Cleveland Indians pitcher Corey Kluber may have suffered through another rough outing, but his first strikeout in Monday's 4-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins made him the Indians' first right-handed pitcher since Bob Feller (1940-41) to record 500 or more strikeouts over a two-year span, per MLB Stat of the Day.

The American League West is completely invested in and totally behind the implementation of the second wild card. It has to be. 

If it were not for that spot, two of its postseason contenders would be left out of the tournament, fighting solely for first place in the division.

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher A.J. Burnett reached a milestone during the first inning of Sunday's 4-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs, becoming the 32nd pitcher in MLB history to record 2,500 or more career strikeouts, per MLB Stat of the Day.

Entering the contest with 2,499 strikeouts, the 38-year-old Burnett got off to a rocky start in the first inning, allowing four of the five batters he faced to reach base.