Opinion

David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox share a treasure trove of beautiful memories. Busting one of professional sports' most infamous championship droughts and then winning two more titles to boot will do that for you.

Now, in Ortiz's final season, Boston and Big Papi appear primed for one more run.

Yoenis Cespedes gets the attention, as he should. But the New York Mets' 12-run third inning got going Friday night when Michael Conforto doubled home the game's first run.

Cespedes' recent power surge has made the Mets look unbeatable. But the Mets' surge really began when manager Terry Collins put a 23-year-old kid into the third spot in the batting order.

A week ago, there were serious stories in serious newspapers asking how long the Boston Red Sox should wait before making a managerial change.

By Tuesday, the Red Sox were half a game out of first place in the American League East.

Dee Gordon, the sweet-swinging and fast-running second baseman of the Miami Marlins, is going to be gone for a while.

But that's not the sad part. The sad part is how many people will be too angry to miss him and how many tough questions have to be asked in the meantime.

April is baseball's most tantalizing and least meaningful month.

On the one hand, cut grass is in the air and hope springs eternal. Plus, wins are wins whether they come now or in the heat of the pennant race.

On the other hand, we're still squarely in small-sample territory. Scalding starts will evaporate in the heat of summer, and early cold spells will thaw. The last shall be first and the first shall be last—maybe.

MLB fans are reminded time and again at the start of a new season not to put too much stock into a small sample size.

It's a long season, and what a guy does over the first month of the year is not always indicative of how his entire season will play out.

That being said, offseason additions are generally under increased scrutiny as they look to make a good first impression while fans expect them to immediately live up to the big-money contract or costly prospect packages they cost the team.

The Colorado Rockies are quickly becoming baseball’s version of Pop, a TV channel that plays reruns of old teen dramas such as The OC, Dawson’s Creek and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Even before the 2016 Major League Baseball season began, the American League looked like it was going to be a wide-open battle that any team could win in the end.

As the 2016 Major League Baseball season makes ready for the month of May, teams have a better idea of what they have and don't have than they did exiting spring training.

And though it may be early, it's never too early for contenders to start thinking about how to fix the "don't have" part.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado doesn’t talk about whether he belongs in "The Conversation."

That’s baseball speak for: "Who is the best all-around player in the game?"