The final month of the 2016 MLB season has arrived, but there is still a lot to be sorted out before the regular season wraps up and another postseason begins.

As many as 18 teams can still be considered contenders for at least a wild-card berth. As for individual accolades, September performances will decide several major awards.

With that in mind, some of the top MLB writers at Bleacher Report have decided to try their hands at predicting the league's 10 playoff teams, major award winners and a few other notable things.

If nothing else, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has been controversial since he became the 10th man to hold baseball’s top spot in January 2015.

He has made “pace of play” his cause celebre, an issue he feels is one of game’s biggest burdens. But in addressing it, Manfred has proposed radical changes that would be to the detriment of the issue at hand.

First, let's get this out of the way: Tim Tebow didn't make this installment of Bleacher Report's MLB Team of the Week.

In fact, according to B/R's own Scott Miller—who attended Tebow's recent, much-hyped baseball showcase—the former NFL quarterback isn't likely to make an MLB team of any kind anytime soon.

When the injury bug ambushed and carried off Giancarlo Stanton in mid-August, the Miami Marlins lost a power source that still hasn't been replaced.

But give it up to Christian Yelich for giving it his best shot.

Fact: Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ricky Nolasco threw a complete-game shutout against the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday. The Angels join the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants and Cleveland Indians as the only teams to have thrown at least three complete-game shutouts this season. 

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Lavishing Zack Greinke with a six-year, $206.5 million contract hasn't turned the Arizona Diamondbacks into contenders. But if they ever want to get out from under that contract, they'll reportedly be able to find a suitor within their own division.

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Baseball fans who remember last winter's free-agent frenzy should hold on to those memories, for the upcoming crop of unsigned talent is shaping up to be one of the weakest in recent memory, especially when it comes to starting pitching.

That's why many, including Bleacher Report's Jacob Shafer, believe that the trade market could be the driving force behind much of the coming offseason's most notable, game-changing moves.

PEARL, Miss. — Hang tight, because this is a happy story. Really. You wouldn't think so, not when someone loses an eye. Not when the pool of blood on the ground looks like something out of CSI: New York. Not when an emergency medical helicopter swoops in and rushes the man off to a nearby hospital, a life hanging in the balance.

Five years later, sitting in his office, that man looks across his desk at a visitor. Watch this, he says. My prosthetic eye moves right along with my good eye.

Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout was uninjured after being involved in a car accident following Wednesday's 3-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds.

Fact: Max Scherzer struck out 11 batters over eight innings in the Washington Nationals' 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday.