Opinion

That asking price isn’t looking so outrageous right now.

This Major League Baseball season goes to 11.

Sorry, had to do it. There was just no other way to mark the passing of the 11th week of the 2015 season. Regardless, it's time for us to do our thing: Find the week's top stories and round them up for immediate discussion.

Any day you join a club that counts Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez as its only other members is a good day.

On Friday, Chris Sale had a good day, even if his Chicago White Sox decidedly did not.

NEW YORK — Four years ago, it was easy to know what to think.

It was easy to know how to feel.

Derek Jeter got to 3,000 hits in the most Derek Jeter of ways, and it wasn't just Yankees fans who celebrated. Even now, four years later, the pitcher who gave up Jeter's 3,000th hit can talk about how "special" that day was.

At the middle of June, the Mets are currently 36-32 and in first place in the NL East. They certainly look to be contenders this season, but whether they can successfully hold off the Washington Nationals and win the division or take one of the wild-card spots remains to be seen. It will not be easy and the Mets will have to be more consistent, particularly on the road, to get back to the playoffs for the first time since 2006.

Most of the Mets' core is in place right now, but injuries have certainly had an effect up to this point.

With the game on the line and an opponent in scoring position, first-year Texas Rangers pitcher Keone Kela made a mistake that cost his team Thursday night's game against the Dodgers.

The current record of the Cincinnati Reds is less indicative of the team’s overall potential and more about the cavalcade of injuries sustained thus far. When writers and fans alike suggest the Reds may not have to “blow it up,” it’s hard not to agree.

Manny Machado showed the upside early.

He showed why his major league debut was an anticipated event. He showed why so many scouts and the Baltimore Orioles believed he could be great. He proved he was well worthy of being the third overall pick in the 2010 draft.

When the latest update for the American League All-Star voting was revealed Monday afternoon, millions of fans jumped for joy...

...in Kansas City.

Stealing signs just became so Flannel Era. In its first spectacular scandal of the Digital Age, Major League Baseball now is facing the possibility that one of its most decorated organizations is guilty of stealing proprietary information.

Long ago, hardball met hard drive. But while analytic minds poked and prodded and smartly developed cutting-edge statistics like WAR, never was the security of a club like the Houston Astros threatened.

Now it is the St. Louis Cardinals who are in danger of crashing.