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Baseball fans have been arguing the merits of various major award candidates since before the All-Star break, but with the postseason officially underway, the bodies of work are complete and the voters have submitted their ballots.

The winners won't be announced until after the World Series wraps up, but it's time now to make our final year-end award picks for each of the four majors awards.

It sure has been a rapid rise for Corey Seager, the rookie phenom of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The 21-year-old shortstop isn't the only top MiLB prospect who arrived in the majors just last month and is already making his mark on the big league stage.

What follows is a look around the league at five September call-ups who have the potential to become future game-changers and are playing for teams that are currently in the postseason.

After taking a look at the top starting pitchers, the B/R MLB 300 has now reached its final position: relief pitchers.

Our list of the top relievers contains 30 of our 300 overall players, and they were chosen based on a scoring system that adds up to a total of 80 possible points.

Normally, one player stands out as the undisputed key to a team's championship run.

Last year, Madison Bumgarner stepped up and helped lead the San Francisco Giants to a third World Series title in five years.

Before that, David Ortiz launched a monster shot off Joaquin Benoit to help the Boston Red Sox gain momentum, surge past the Detroit Tigers and eventually win a championship.

Can someone put together a similar performance in 2015 and live in postseason lore forever?

Let's take a look at a critical player for each playoff team.

With the 2015 MLB regular season officially wrapped up and the 10-team playoff field now set, this week's power rankings are going to be a little bit different than what you may be used to.

Looking at last week's performance is not necessarily the best indicator of which direction each of these teams is headed, as some of them clinched prior to last week and were resting guys and setting up their playoff rotation, while others were battling just to make it in.

Last October gave us one of the most impressive one-man performances in Major League Baseball postseason history. 

Madison Bumgarner made seven appearances for the San Francisco Giants in the 2014 postseason, and they needed every single inning he gave them as they marched to their third World Series title in five years.

Bumgarner had a 1.03 ERA in 52.2 innings, and his five shutout innings in relief in Game 7 of the World Series against the Kansas City Royals was one of the more memorable relief outings of any playoffs in the game’s long history.

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.

We've all had one of those days where nothing seems to go right, but have you ever had one of those years? For the players that made the cut on our season-ending All-Dud squad, 2015 will go down as a year they'd soon forget.

For none of these players came close to meeting even the most modest of expectations heading into the season. Some were major factors in their teams failing to meet those same expectations, while others were less of a burden on clubs that managed to find success despite their individual struggles.

We made it. The end is here, and all that remains is the ever-entertaining postseason that never disappoints with its drama and intrigue.

Major League Baseball’s marathon season comes to an end Sunday. It has given us plenty of feel-good, fluffy stories as well as its fair share of controversy and ugliness. And both types were present right up until the end—the Minnesota Twins were the nice storyline, and Jonathan Papelbon gave us the despicable.

The 2015 MLB postseason is about to begin, but it's never too early to look ahead to some of the situations that will play out throughout the offseason. Over the next few slides, we'll identify a handful of sell-high, buy-low transactions that teams need to consider this winter.