Jonathan Bernhardt

The Cleveland Indians have as good a shot at a World Series berth as any team in the AL. If things had worked out better at the deadline, it'd be even better.

In April, the Chicago White Sox looked like a team of destiny. Three months later, they look...like the imperfect team everyone expected them to be. Time to get to work.

Once again, the voters got it mostly right in picking players for this year's All-Star Game, which will once again be kind of boring and kind of fun. Here are some fixes anyway.

Baltimore entered the season looking like a home-run-hitting, pitching-deficient last-place team. Instead, they're a home-run-hitting, pitching-deficient first-place team.

It's an exciting, frightening time for a team whose rotation was an absolute strength only a few days ago.

After two lousy seasons, Jay Bruce is playing like an All-Star, just in time for the Reds to spin him off in a trade. But which Jay Bruce are teams going to get?

Brawling has long been part of baseball, but this year's incidents—most recently, Manny Machado's DDT on Yordano Ventura—have been different. The league and its fans should acknowledge that.

Baseball players have always cheated, from spitballs to steroids. MLB should keep on testing and punishing cheaters, but there's a bigger fix, if they want it.

After a historically great recovery from Tommy John surgery, the New York Mets' erstwhile ace already looks gassed and out of answers.

The Chicago Cubs are living, winning proof of how a strategic tank job can help turn an organization around. But it gets that much harder when everyone is doing it.

It's too early to make predictions, or to pretend to know where the season is headed. But the White Sox look very much like a team worth believing in. Eventually.

Right up until he became one of baseball's biggest stars, Jose Bautista was a journeyman. This April, as in every other, fellow wanderers look to follow his path.