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All of a sudden, Cleveland has turned into the center of the sports universe.

Just weeks removed from the Cavaliers winning the 2015-16 NBA championship, the Indians are still riding a 14-game winning streak. And entering play Saturday with an AL Central-leading record of 49-30, you could argue they are World Series contenders.

Heck, Cleveland could play .500 baseball the rest of the way and probably would still make the playoffs. So it’s more than safe to pencil them into the October picture.

It’s probably reasonable to do it in erasable pen.

Remember when the Cavaliers were the hottest act in Cleveland? You know, what with their winning the NBA Finals and snapping the city's 52-year championship drought?

Well, they had their time. Now it's the Indians' turn, and you can practically hear them telling the Cavs, "Anything you can do, I can do better."

Carlos Santana's solo home run off Darwin Barney in the top of the 19th inning helped end this season's longest Major League Baseball game to date, with the Cleveland Indians extending their winning streak to a team-record 14 games in a 2-1 marathon victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday.

The Indians came into the game as the hottest team in baseball, owning the longest winning streak in the American League since the Oakland Athletics won 20 straight in 2002.

The Boston Red Sox have reportedly been banned from signing international players in 2016-17 due to violations of signing-bonus rules. 

ESPN's Buster Olney was the first to report the news Friday, and Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports confirmed the report.

Although fans sometimes make strange choices for MLB All-Star Game starters, the decisions to this point will create plenty of drama leading up to the final announcement.

Voting for the July 12 game closed at 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday, so hopefully you were able to fill out as many ballots with your favorite players as possible before the cutoff.

The month of July has arrived, and that means the MLB trade market is set to kick into high gear ahead of the Aug. 1 non-waiver trade deadline.

There is still a lot to be sorted out over the next few weeks, as teams on the fringe of contention are forced to make the tough decision between buying, selling or standing pat.

While those eventual decisions could alter the trade market as more teams become clear-cut sellers, for now we can already get a good read on what the trade block is expected to look like.

This season, there’s a euphoria that has consumed Chicago Cubs fans unlike anything the city’s North Side has seen for, say, a little over 100 years.

The votes are in, and now we wait for the official word on who's invited to the 2016 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Perhaps there will be some surprises.

Unless, of course, all of our predictions come true.

July is a pivotal period for MLB. It's the last month before the non-waiver trade deadline. It gives us the All-Star Game. And it's when the various postseason races truly begin to heat up.

Before we rush into July's balmy embrace, however, let's take a final glance back at June, via an installment of Bleacher Report's Team of the Month.

The hottest team in baseball is spending less than $14 million on a starting rotation that might turn Cleveland into the city of champions. The richest team in baseball has more than $36 million tied up in starting pitchers who aren’t healthy enough to pitch.