Opinion

1. Those Who Were Hosed, and Those Who Should Be Rewarded

Outrageous. Scandalous. Freaking criminal!

All of those descriptions were hurled in recent weeks, and that was just at poor Omar Infante.

Take out the pitchforks. After teasing baseball fans with the starting lineups on Sunday night, MLB released the complete 2015 All-Star Game rosters on Monday.

The league can't possibly satisfy every onlooker with all 64 selections. Only a few head-scratching but far from outrageous choices standing out represents a relative victory for the game.

At roughly the midpoint of it all, the Boston Red Sox's 2015 season is so far one for the "Disappointing" file. This team was supposed to be better than the 91-game losers of 2014, and right now it's on pace to be just slightly better.

This is what you call a snowball. Or at this point it might seem more like Murphy’s Law trying to take effect on the Detroit Tigers, because anything that can seemingly go wrong is creeping around the team right now.

Voting for the 2015 MLB All-Star Game concluded Thursday night, but the league doesn't reveal its final tally until Sunday.  And given the hullabaloo surrounding the potential results of this year's fan vote with the American League ballot, there should be more interest than usual in a typically academic unveiling.

The 2015 Major League Baseball season is halfway home. It just put its third month in the books, as well as its 13th week.

And as with all the other ones, this week gave us plenty to talk about.

The time has come for us to do our usual thing and dive into the biggest storylines of the week. There are 10 that we need to get to, and they range from a bright young star making his long-awaited return to some nasty pitching to a nasty power dispute in Southern California.

The Toronto Blue Jays have the best offense in MLB by almost any measure, yet they're stuck in fourth place in the American League East. It doesn't take a brilliant baseball mind to deduce the problem is pitching, or a lack thereof.

Most teams are right around the 81-game mark, making this the halfway point of the 2015 MLB season.

Which teams have surprised us so far? Which have disappointed?

Check out Scott Miller's breakdown of the biggest surprises and disappointments of the first half of the 2015 MLB season.

The 2015 MLB trade deadline is just under a month away, and Scott Miller has some bold predictions for deals that could shake up the playoff picture.

Will the Philadelphia Phillies finally trade Cole Hamels? Which team would benefit the most from landing the pitcher?

As we approach the season's halfway point, MLB teams are now aware of what they need in order to contend for a title. Those who want to add pitching will have quite a few options on the open market.