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For the second straight year, the New York Yankees will call upon Masahiro Tanaka to be their Opening Day starter.  

Starting pitcher Miguel Gonzalez is drawing interest from multiple teams, especially the Chicago White Sox, after being released by the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.

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When the Boston Red Sox signed Pablo Sandoval in the winter of 2014, their hope was surely that he would take his game to new heights.

Instead, Sandoval has gone down, down and down some more. And on Thursday morning, you could practically hear the THUD of him hitting bottom.

The New York Yankees' bullpen has suffered another setback as Bryan Mitchell is expected to miss at least three months due to a toe injury.  

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Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell announced Thursday that Travis Shaw has won the starting job at third base over Pablo Sandoval. 

Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe passed along word of the decision from Farrell, who met with both players Thursday morning to inform them of the decision.

The 2016 Major League Baseball season is nigh, so it's time to offer some predictions to the baseball gods.

We need to get them in before Sunday, when Opening Day will arrive in the form of a tripleheader highlighted by a World Series rematch between the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals. And when it comes to predictions for a new season, we dare not skimp the baseball gods.

With Opening Day finally in sight, now is the time to predict who will lead each league in some notable statistical categories.

This is obviously a shot in the dark, and there are always at least a few surprises that emerge over the course of the season.

At any rate, it's still fun to make an educated guess as to who could pace his respective league in some notable categories, and that's exactly what we've done here.

In fact, the following goes one step further, with predictions for the top five finishers in each league for the following categories:

In year one, you feast. In year two, the bill arrives.

We're talking about the dreaded and enigmatic sophomore slump, when MLB rookies follow their breakout debuts with underwhelming second acts. 

The New York Yankees bullpen had a biblical feel to it at the start of spring training. We knew it was general manager Brian Cashman's creation, but it seemed as if a higher power put it together.

As the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals get set to open the 2016 Major League Baseball season on Sunday night, with the Royals receiving their World Series rings for defeating the Mets last October, the only thing anyone is talking about right now is retaliation.