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Since baseball is played nearly every day during its season, there’s nothing the sports holds in higher regard than its streaks.

There have been streaks of all kind this season—the team variety and those more individual in nature—but arguably its most impressive of the 2016 season came to a close this week.

Baltimore Orioles closer Zach Britton saw his streak of 43 straight games without giving up an earned snapped on Thursday.

Want to read about everyone else in baseball who went streaking?

For MLB teams in the thick of a pennant race, it's better to be healthy than good.

The July trade deadline and the August waiver period are not the only ways that teams can add to their rosters for the stretch run. September also brings an influx of new players when the active rosters expand from 25 to 40.

Generally, this is a time when teams promote the guys who have bounced between the minors and majors for most of the season, adding a few arms to the bullpen and bats to the bench in the process.

However, at least a handful of top prospects get the chance to show what they can do during this time as well.

There's little more than a month remaining in the 2016 MLB season, and there is still a lot to be figured out before the postseason begins.

For the second consecutive week, the top five spots in these rankings went to the same five teams, as the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays and Cleveland Indians continue to represent the cream of the crop.

One of the great baseball scenes ever put to film comes courtesy of the Leslie Nielsen classic The Naked Gun, with Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." providing the background music.

Apparently, Josh Reddick isn't in agreement with that sentiment, as the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder and soon-to-be free agent is one of the headliners on this week's All-Dud team.

The Washington Nationals lead the NL East largely because second baseman Daniel Murphy is having an MVP-caliber year.

It’s overshadowed the contributions of Jayson Werth, who extend his on-base streak to 46 games on Thursday, as valuable a streak as it is impressive.

But Werth wasn’t the only player this week to hit a major milestone. Who were the others?

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We've arrived at roughly the quarter pole of the 2016 MLB season and that means it's time for an updated version of our position-by-position player rankings.

The following takes into account players' all-around offensive abilities, their defensive contributions as well as what they have meant to the success of their respective teams.

To put it simply, this is an overview of the top 10 players at each spot based solely on what they have done during the 2016 season.

In order to achieve the type of sustainable success that every MLB team is searching for, the front office always needs to have an eye on the future.

Whether a team is a contender in 2016 or already focused on 2017, it's never too early to start looking ahead at how each team is lining up future success.

We've arrived at the quarter-pole mark of the 2016 MLB season, as we're now just a month-and-a-half away from the conclusion of the regular season and the start of another exciting slate of postseason baseball.

However, before the playoffs begin, there's still an awful lot to be sorted out.

The top teams took care of business last week, and the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays and Cleveland Indians once again fill the top five spots in our rankings.

"Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever." That was one of the many memorable lines uttered by Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) in The Replacements, an underrated movie that also starred Jon Favreau and Gene Hackman, among others.