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The Carlos Correa countdown is on. The Houston Astros—check that, the AL West-leading Houston Astros, who sport the best record in the American League at 18-8 entering play Tuesday—suddenly find themselves in a position where promoting their young shortstop and No.

Tuesday night features the fullest slate of daily fantasy baseball, which makes it one of our favorite nights of the week to play. Forget Cinco de Mayo, there should be a lot of "fish" in the sea at DraftKings, too. We help you rake with our best MLB pitcher picks for May 5.

The saying goes that April showers bring May flowers, but it's apparently not a theory that the baseball gods subscribe to.

More than a few of the top potential trade targets that we looked at heading into May last week continue to deal with stagnant or dropping stock values as a possible trade chip for their current club to play.

While looking for upside is important for your daily fantasy baseball team, you want to pick players you can trust.

Although the first month is littered with fluke stats and small sample size results, we are now getting to see which players are for real. Whether they have had good numbers or not, you need to be able to predict the ones who will succeed in the future.

Based on what we have seen to this point, these are players to pick and avoid in Tuesday's contests.

1. Best and Worst of the First-Month Surprises

The Astros: Not since Mike Scott was scuffing baseballs in 1986 has Houston raced off to a better start. At 18-7 entering this week, the Astros are off to the best start in club history. Their 10-game winning streak, snapped Monday night against the Rangers, was the Astros' longest since winning 12 in a row Aug. 27-Sept. 8, 2004.

Every year, a handful of young players across the Major League Baseball landscape step into key roles and wind up making a significant impact for their respective teams.

Oftentimes, it's a team's top prospect finally getting the call and establishing himself as an everyday contributor, but occasionally it's a less-heralded young player who breaks through to make his presence known.

With that in mind, what follows is a look at 10 young players on the verge of making a big impact at the major league level.

The Detroit Tigers have begun the 2015 regular season in fine fashion. A 17-9 record through the first month puts them in familiar territory atop the American League Central Division.

For MLB executives, the busy season is right around the corner.

The big league trade deadline is still a couple of months away, but team officials definitely need to keep their phones close by. Just ask Doug Melvin, the general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers.

There is always going to be a give-and-take with Hanley Ramirez.

The Boston Red Sox knew that. They elected to pursue his services anyway. For the price of $88 million over four years, the organization gambled it would have more reward than risk.

Devon Travis isn't the prospect the Toronto Blue Jays—or anyone else—expected to take the league by storm. Yet here we are, a month into the 2015 campaign, and the slugging second baseman is showing no signs of slowing down.