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While players like Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, and Josh Hamilton are accustomed to winning MVP awards, but it doesn't mean they are the most important players for their team to win.

We all know about team's most valuable players, but who really is the most important player for each team to have a successful season?

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Heard This Blog ranked the top five Jewish current baseball players

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When the San Francisco Giants called up Matt Cain in August of 2005, he made his debut as the second youngest pitcher in the major leagues.  Now in his seventh season as a big leaguer, Cain is a seasoned veteran with a laundry list of accomplishments to his credit.  He finished last year's World Championship season with a 13-11 record with a 3.14 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 177 strikeouts, 61 walks, 223 innings pitched and four complete games (including two shutouts).  

Just over two weeks into the Major League Baseball season and we have already seen our fair share of surprises from clubs like the Indians and Royals off to hot starts, along with teams like the struggling Tigers and Red Sox.

This is NOT a list of the two greatest hitters for each team. This is a list of the greatest individual seasons for two hitters on each team. 

Steroids are ignored. Barry Bonds is on this list. So is Alex Rodriguez (twice, actually, and not with the Yankees). Rafael Palmeiro, Manny Ramirez, and other known or assumed users are here. 

Listed by division, not ranked by greatness. 

Spoiler alert!  The Red Sox will be on this list.

I was at the Jays 2008 home opener when we hosted Boston.  It was difficult to concentrate on the game with all the Sox fans screaming in broken English, yelling nonsense like "wicked pissah' and "hoobangah".

If that wasn't bad enough, as the Jays pulled away the drunker of the Sox fans started to pick fights in the stands.

Although in their defense, Canadian beer actually contains alcohol.

So without further ado, here is a list of the most hostile fans in baseball.

Baseball is continually subject to outer-space explosions.  Young stars blowing up to become full-blown elite talents is a part of the MLB's evolution.

Quick starts, position hitters, fast throwing pitchers, and Usain Bolt speedsters, all accumulate into the next class of superstars.

Joe Mauer did it in 2006, Troy Tulowitzki and Ryan Braun in 2007, Evan Longoria in 2008, Tommy Hanson in 2009, and Mat Latos and Carlos Gonzalez last year. 

Barry Bonds was found guilty by a jury of his peers on Wednesday afternoon for obstruction of justice, but that same jury was unable to conclude whether or not Bonds lied about knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs during his career.

We've all seen it: the signature move.  Many great baseball players have displayed them time and time again throughout their careers, and through them they make the game look easy.

There are the great moves, and then there are the weird ones, which baseball fans of all generations have seen as well.

Here's a list of the best, and strangest signature moves from players in the game today, as well as a few from the annals of history.

The powerhouse that is the American League East division is known for big bats and the big budgets of the Yankees and Red Sox, but this year, a new crop of talented pitchers have entered the big leagues and look to make some serious noise.

All of the rotations in the division, except the Red Sox, feature one promising rookie and then there is a solid, young lefty sitting in the Rays pen.

Here are the best arms of the future that have crept their way into the big leagues in the early goings of 2011.