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The Oakland Athletics have to be hoping State Farm covers defective wall panels.

Monday night's game between the A's and the Los Angeles Angels was bizarrely delayed in the bottom of the fifth inning because of an issue with the O.co Coliseum outfield wall.  

There was an unusual scene in the Los Angeles Dodgers dugout during Monday night's game against the San Francisco Giants, with Enrique "Kike" Hernandez morphing from a baseball player into a human banana.

Hernandez—who is currently on the disabled list with a hamstring injury—was spotted in the dugout in the 14th inning wearing a banana outfit. Questions should immediately start popping into your head.

Um, what? Whose idea was this? Why?

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Matt Adams has been out of action since May with a quad tear, and his progress toward a return has hit a stumbling block.  

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Major League Baseball won't reinstate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson despite an appeal from the former outfielder's museum nearly a century after the Black Sox Scandal. Commissioner Rob Manfred stated there isn't enough evidence to overturn the previous decisions.

Today marks the first day that MLB clubs can expand their rosters to 40—providing much-needed depth for the postseason stretch and a chance for some young prospects to get experience.

The key to success in daily fantasy baseball is fielding a lineup with the right mix of high-priced talent and low-budget players who may outperform their expectations.  Tuesday night's MLB schedule has all 30 teams in action, allowing for a wide variety of options to choose from in DraftKings contests.

Below are the top three names at each position, as well as five bargain picks to help fill out your roster.

More than one full month remains until we can know anything for sure when it comes to baseball's postseason.

The second wild-card berth keeps several teams mathematically and realistically alive deep into September, and this year possibly into early October as the regular-season stretches into a seventh month on the baseball calendar.

But as we step into the final month(ish), we can be pretty confident in some of the postseason participants hanging on to their spots through the next four-plus weeks of the regular season.

Don't be fooled.

Just because baseball's second trade deadline has passed, and swaps between clubs can no longer be consummated, don't think for a second that general managers aren't constantly working the phones. Some of these conversations are new, while others were started months ago and only now are being revisited.

Trade talk goes on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—and we never hear about most of it.

1. Fins to the Left, Fins to the Right

There is blood in the water now, so much blood, and there is going to be more. Suddenly, every week is Shark Week for the game's general managers and managers.

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Down here in the Atlantic League, the players hear the stories of what Shane Spencer did.

He came out of nowhere and became an instant star. He walked out of the minor leagues and into the World Series.