Roughly three weeks are left in the 2016 MLB regular season, and while the playoff picture is taking shape, there is still a lot to be decided before October.

In the American League, 10 legitimate contenders remain. The Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers have a strong hold on their respective division leads, but the AL East is now a four-team race, and the two wild-card spots are wide-open.

Fact: Seattle Mariners pitcher Taijuan Walker pitched a complete-game shutout against the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday, the first of his career.

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Remember when touted young Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton was the butt of smarmy "Buston" jokes?

Yeah. About that.

MLB's most valuable commodity isn't sluggers with prodigious power, innings-eating workhorses or flame-throwing relievers. It's prospects, players in their teens and early 20s who have yet to establish themselves at the game's highest level.

Teams are loathe to trade them, for prospects represent not only hope for the future but an inexpensive way to build a roster—at least in the short term. We need only look at recent success stories in Chicago, Kansas City and Pittsburgh for proof of that.

A New York Mets starting rotation that was supposed to be the mightiest force on this or any other planet has become battered, broken and badly in need of a hero.

Enter Thor.

We're midway through the final month of the 2016 MLB season and by all accounts, there are still five postseason spots up for grabs.

On the National League side, the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals look like locks to win the Central and East Divisions, respectively, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are leading the NL West by four games, are a safe bet to reach the postseason in some capacity.

That leaves the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals fighting for the two remaining spots.

With the exception of the Rookie of the Year Award in each league, here's hoping that those voting for MLB's biggest individual honors in 2016 have been filling out their ballots in pencil and not pen.

The races for Comeback Player of the Year, Manager of the Year, Cy Young Award and MVP in the American League and National League remain volatile, with hot-and-cold streaks shuffling the odds and, even this late in the season, adding and subtracting contenders from the field.

The Boston Red Sox gave David Price ace money over the winter.

Now, finally, after months of wobbling and hand-wringing, he's giving them ace results.

Kyle Hendricks didn't make history Monday night at Busch Stadium. But he did make his National League Cy Young Award case loud and clear.

Hendricks came within three outs of becoming just the second Chicago Cubs pitcher to throw a no-hitter against the hated-rival St. Louis Cardinals. He carried a no-no through eight innings before Jeremy Hazelbaker ended it with a solo home run to lead off the ninth.

The Detroit Tigers announced outfielder Justin Upton left Monday's game against the Minnesota Twins with a left calf strain.

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