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Over the course of a 162-game season plus October, fans become very familiar with the players who appear most frequently for their favorite teams, whether that’s on the mound or in the batter’s box. Regardless of whether these players are star performers or unproductive placeholders and whether the team is good or bad, the players become the main characters of the season at hand. Then the offseason shakes up all 30 major-league rosters like a snow globe, landing players on different teams in different roles and creating new characters for each fan base to get to know.