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Another year, another season of Major League Baseball having more talented rookies than it knows what to do with. And if nothing else, that makes for enticing Rookie of the Year races.

It seems as if Opening Day was only a few weeks ago, but here we sit, with Memorial Day fast approaching and nearly two months of baseball's regular season already behind us. Time flies, whether you're having fun or not.

The 2016 MLB draft is rapidly approaching, as the three-day even begins on June 9.

There's been plenty of talk about who the Philadelphia Phillies might grab with the No. 1 overall pick, and most baseball fans are well-acquainted with this year's crop of projected first-round picks, but there's a full 40 rounds worth of picks to be made.

Hitting on your first-round selection is paramount, but finding value in the rounds to come is equally important as teams look to bolster their farm system with the next late-round steal.

Roughly a quarter of the 2016 MLB season is in the books, but there's still a ton of baseball ahead.

Another shaky week from the Chicago Cubs has a handful of teams chomping at the bit for a chance to claim the No. 1 spot in these rankings, including the San Francisco Giants, who just took two of three from them over the weekend.

Meanwhile, things continue to shuffle around in the top 10 with terrific battles going on atop the AL East, AL West and NL East standings.

And we're back!

After taking last week off, B/R's All-Dud Team of the Week makes its triumphant return, and just in time. There were some truly awful performances put forth in the seventh week of the regular season. How awful were they?

If we were making a movie, these are the type of nausea-inducing showings that would garner a rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. That's right—we're talking Showgirls awful.

Rougned Odor certainly grabbed the attention of MLB and very well may have caught the eye Dana White, president of the UFC.

Odor, a promising second baseman for the Texas Rangers, hit Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista flush on the jaw with a hook that would make Conor McGregor jealous. It was not a good look for baseball or Odor.

There are countless reasons why some MLB players take time to finally reach their potential and deliver a breakout season. We're talking about the kind of campaign that makes us change the way we look at them.

It could be a change of scenery or a managerial change that leads to something finally clicking. It could be a mechanical or mental adjustment. It could be that a player decided to finally ditch the nasty pair of lucky socks he's had since high school and put a fresh pair on his feet.

Our position-by-position MLB player rankings will once again be a monthly staple throughout the 2016 campaign, and it's time for another update as we've reached roughly the quarter mark of the season.

High expectations lead to grand disappointments. For an alarmingly high number of MLB stars slumping in 2016, small sample sizes also don't help.

Any baseball player who sticks around long enough will endure a rough patch during his career. Most of these guys, however, are paid exorbitant salaries to avoid those ebbs and flows. It's one thing when the No. 7 hitter or back-end starter labors, but the award-winning star and nine-figure investment are supposed to rise above human fallibility.

For a sport that's not known for being fast-paced, time really flies in baseball. The 2016 MLB season is already a quarter of the way in the bag.

That means we're here for an updated look at the major awards races.