NL Central

A number of current and future baseball stars have erupted with massive performances during the first half of the 2015 MLB season.

The Cincinnati Reds' season hasn't quite gone the way the team and fans had hoped, but even despite having a losing record, the 2015 MLB All-Star Game hosts have several players who have made a strong bid to play in the Midsummer Classic.

No Cincinnati position player is in line to start this year's All-Star Game. However, that doesn't mean that there isn't a deserving candidate, like third baseman Todd Frazier.

There’s a certain beauty to a perfect slide. It’s graceful, smooth and pretty much exactly the opposite of what Starling Marte did on Saturday.

Emotions were running high at Wrigley Field on Thursday when home plate umpire Andy Fletcher lost his cool, charging the mound to exchange words with Jon Lester.

Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant reached 10 home runs and 42 RBI for the season with a big night against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, becoming the first player in franchise history to record 10 or more homers and 40 or more RBI before the All-Star break in his debut season, per MLB Stat of the Day.

Behold a question that I doubt anybody expected to be asked at any point in the 2015 season:

Is Kris Bryant finally going to start hitting for power now?

An unexpected question, indeed. But before we get to answering it, let's get to what's prompting it.

As the season goes on and the injuries pile up for the Cincinnati Reds, the organization needs to start thinking about what it should do for the rest of the season.