MLB

The MLB season is coming to a close, and there are some intriguing questions going into the postseason.

Does Yoenis Cespedes deserve the NL MVP? Will the Toronto Blue Jays win the AL East?

Down the stretch we come! Just over two weeks separate MLB contenders from coveted postseason berths.

The finish line may be in sight, but there's still plenty of time for teams with playoff aspirations to slip up. Over the next few slides, we'll identify five squads across baseball that are the most likely to play spoiler.

With only nine games on the MLB schedule Thursday, many of the league's biggest stars are not in action.

This adds to the challenge for DraftKings daily fantasy players, who must rely heavily on scoring points from unlikely sources.  The lack of big names is particularly evident on the mound, where Corey Kluber is the only pitcher priced above $11,000.  

Expectations at the big league level were minimal as last April brought the start of the Major League Baseball season.

However, by the time the final out of their 25th game was made, the Houston Astros had transformed into a contender. The only question was, were they more the small-sample variety, or were they the kind of club built to sustain success through the grind of 162 regular-season games?

The day before Troy Tulowitzki got hurt on the very real grass at Yankee Stadium, he said he hadn't noticed any problem yet with the fake stuff at Toronto's Rogers Centre.

"Obviously, the turf is slow," he said. "But playing on it doesn't seem bad."

Thanks to the brilliance of Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw, the Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the October hopefuls whose 2015 MLB playoff odds have been on the rise over the past couple of weeks.

As the Cleveland Indians cling to the fringes of the American League playoff scramble, their young shortstop, Francisco Lindor, has moved to the forefront of another race—the one for AL Rookie of the Year.

A strong starting rotation is normally a necessity for any team with hopes of winning the World Series. Just ask the San Francisco Giants, who rode Madison Bumgarner to the 2014 World Series championship.

Quincy police in Massachusetts found something peculiar while raiding a suspected drug dealer's home on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press (via ESPN.com). Among paraphernalia and evidence, a stolen Red Sox 2004 World Series ring was found in the home.

After watching the home for months and witnessing a drug deal on Tuesday, police then moved in by executing a search warrant.

Gatorade wanted to do something special for the Prince George RBI team to reward the players for a good season, so the company invited the kids to a baseball field to play the Bryce Harper Virtual Reality Experience.

That wasn't all.