Opinion

Do you want to draft guys like Zack Greinke ($12,400), Nolan Arenado ($5,200) and Nelson Cruz ($5,400) on Sunday in your DraftKings contest? You'll need to find productive bargains and sleepers to pull it off.

Momentum is such a fickle thing in Major League Baseball.

While the narrative and storyline that comes along with it feed the public’s interest and make for good radio, column and bar-stool fodder, the truth is momentum in that sport shifts from day to day, inning to inning and even batter to batter. All the momentum in the world—negative and positive—can be altered by one misplaced pitch, a swat of a hanging breaking ball or the twirling of a gorgeous complete game.

The New York Yankees have had trouble finding consistency at second base all season.

There have been small sparks of offensive production and defensive flair from both Stephen Drew and Brendan Ryan here and there, but overall, second base has been the biggest flaw in New York's starting lineup this year.

For the most part during Friday night's contest at Rogers Centre, the red-hot Toronto Blue Jays had the New York Yankees in the same place they had them last weekend: right where they wanted 'em.

That is until, all of a sudden, there was a loud bang. And right now in the aftershock, it's clear that what's left of the AL East race is going to be all sorts of fun instead of a one-sided romp.

The San Francisco Giants are hosting a Full House theme night at AT&T Park on September 30, inviting fans to come out for an evening of baseball and entertainment centered on the '90s television show. 

The franchise began priming the pump for the event Friday with "Full Clubhouse"—a promotional video modeled after the show's intro theme.

The Boston Red Sox may not be World Series contenders in 2015, but there are pieces in place for a rebuild. 

What moves do they need to make to contend in 2016? Which players will they part ways with?

Watch as Stephen Nelson and Bleacher Report MLB Analyst Scott Miller discuss the Red Sox in the video above. 

In the movies and on TV, the cool kid who transfers into a new school mid-year is always a point of wonder—the girls swoon over him, and he immediately becomes popular simply because he has the mystery of being new.

Baseball award races can be that way sometimes. You don't necessarily have to be the best in order to win. You just have to show up at the right time—sort of the way R.A. Dickey swiped Clayton Kershaw's Cy Young Award in 2012.

Thursday was International Left-Handers Day, but from the looks of the starting pitchers scheduled to take the mound on Friday, the holiday should have been celebrated a day later.

Another week of MLB action is in the books, which means it's time for a fresh installment of Bleacher Report's Team of the Week.

In case you're new to the party, these are the players (one per position, plus a designated hitter) who have busted box scores over the past seven days. Forget their overall stats. We're judging them solely on what they accomplished between August 7 and August 13.

NEW YORK — The Washington Nationals keep talking as if this is still all about them, as if the National League East will be theirs once they finally wake up and take it.