Francisco Cervelli won't be hitting free agency after all.

The Atlanta Braves have the worst record in Major League Baseball this season at 9-28, and they opted to make a big change on Tuesday, firing manager Fredi Gonzalez.  

The Braves announced they have dismissed Gonzalez and bench coach Carlos Tosca, and Brian Snitker will serve as Atlanta's interim manager.

We've seen a handful of May trades completed in baseball, but the players involved—Jason Bourgeois, Jhoulys Chacin, Anthony Recker and Brendan Ryan—elicit about as much excitement from fans as a Jered Weaver fastball.

Many will say interleague play in Major League Baseball has lost its luster, but it still has at least one gift to give every year.

It's an annual showdown of epic proportions, and the time has come for it to be renewed in 2016: Clayton Kershaw vs. Mike Trout.

We've jumped the gun on Jackie Bradley Jr. before. And if we didn't, all of New England did.

The fans. The media. The Boston Red Sox players.

New York Yankees outfielder Carlos Beltran hit his 400th career home run during Sunday's 7-5 win over the Chicago White Sox, joining Mickey Mantle, Eddie Murray and Chipper Jones as the only switch-hitters in MLB history with 400 or more homers, per MLB Stat of the Day.

One quarter of the 2016 MLB season is in the books, but there's still a ton of baseball ahead.

The Chicago Cubs stumbled a bit with a series loss to the San Diego Padres, but they're still comfortably looking down on the other 29 teams from the No. 1 spot in these rankings.

Things continue to shuffle within the top 10, though.

The Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles both climbed with strong showings, and the Philadelphia Phillies are officially inside the top 10 for the first time this year.

What a world.

The effort to make baseball fun again took a violent turn on Sunday—one that will hurt fantasy managers nearly as much as Jose Bautista.

The Chicago Cubs are the best team in baseball.

At roughly the one-quarter mark of the 2016 season, that should be a fairly uncontroversial statement.

You can point to the numbers—specifically the Cubs' 27-9 record and absurd plus-109 run differential, both tops in MLB.

Or you can just watch them play.

If it wasn't before, it's safe to say now: The Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers don't like each other very much.

Wait, scratch that. They don't like each other at all.

Ask Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor, whose right fist connected squarely with Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista's jaw on Sunday, clearing the benches and reigniting a blood feud that's been simmering since last fall.

We'll get into the history and what it means going forward shortly. First, the punch: