Heading into the Major League Baseball season, even the casual fan knows who the best players in the game are. Alex Rodriguez is going to hit 50 home runs, Jake Peavy is going to win more than 15 games and Ryan Howard is going to drive in 120 runs and probably strike out 175 times too.

Some players though come out of nowhere and put up numbers no one thought possible. The same goes for the teams themselves. The 2006 Cardinals were basically a .500 team the whole season, but caught fire in October and won the World Series. Surprises happen a lot in baseball and the start of the 2008 season has been no different.

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