The New York Yankees are doing this right with Luis Severino, trying to lessen the pressure on him to be great right away, even if that pressure is Severino's reality. They're doing this right, even if there is a good argument to be made that Severino will be their best starting pitcher.

Perhaps Jose Bautista sounded the alarm in spring training when, not shockingly, he told reporters he would not offer the Toronto Blue Jays a hometown discount.

Toronto is not Bautista’s hometown. For the record, that’s Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Nor has anyone purported him to be such a lover of Canadian bacon that he would take less money to remain a Blue Jay.

Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein confirmed he's in discussions with the organization on a contract extension and expects a deal "sometime soon."

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The 2016 MLB season is finally in full swing, but it's never too late to make some long-term predictions about how the season could shake out.

Things rarely play out as expected over 162 games, and that's one of the things that makes baseball so great, but here in the early going, we can get a decent idea of what the postseason picture might look like come October.

So with that in mind, what follows is a look at each team's odds of making the playoffs for the upcoming season.

Baseball is back, and if the first two days of the 2016 regular season are any indication, fans are in for one heck of a year. Late-inning rallies, superhuman defensive plays (we're looking at you, Kevin Pillar) and no-doubt home runs littered the Opening Day landscape.

I struggle with predictions the way some folks battle bad hair days and others wrestle with Snapchat.

In 2005, I picked the Chicago White Sox to finish last in the AL Central.

Of course, they won their first World Series in 88 years that summer.

This is a weird thing to say about a pitcher who dominated like a fiend en route to winning the National League Cy Young in 2015, but here goes:

Jake Arrieta appears to be just fine, thank you very much.

If the first act of MLB's Opening Day festivities was any indication of what's to come, Act II, which gets underway Monday with a 12-game slate, is going to be full of memorable moments and keep us at the edge of our seats.

Sunday saw the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Mets mount late rallies in their opening contests, only to fall short and lose to the Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals, respectively. With so many games on tap for Monday, we're sure to see more than a few follow that same formula.

Rather than make fans wait until the first pitch approached, the New York Yankees pre-emptively postponed Monday's Opening Day game against the Houston Astros because of inclement weather.

The 2016 MLB season kicked off with a tripleheader of games on Sunday, and ahead of Monday's full slate of action it's time to officially unveil our Opening Day power rankings.

All offseason we've shuffled teams around based on free-agent signings, trades, injuries, position battles and in many case a simple shift in opinion as the months went on and we moved closer to the start of the regular season.