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1. No Forgiveness by Padres

Managers are hired to be fired, everyone knows it, and rarely is a man more vulnerable than when he's working for an ownership group that didn’t hire him and a general manager that inherited him. Especially when the payroll is jacked up to a club-record $108 million.

Earlier in June, Albert Pujols insisted that the Los Angeles Angels were not "the Mike Trout show." This was despite all evidence to the contrary, as the Angels had been on Trout's back all s

While there's no official date on the baseball calendar, it's widely accepted that the conclusion of MLB's first-year player draft signals the unofficial start of trade season in baseball. Teams shift their focus from the amateurs to the professionals, looking for the piece (or pieces) that will propel them to success.

With the MLB draft now behind us, the summer trade season is just around the corner, and the rumor mill should start heating up in the days and weeks to come.

Last year's trade deadline set the bar high, as it was one of the busiest in recent memory.

David Price, Jon Lester, Yoenis Cespedes, Austin Jackson, John Lackey and many others were on the move in the days leading up to the July 31 deadline, following the blockbuster deal that sent Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel to Oakland earlier in the month.

From Madison Bumgarner to Clayton Kershaw and Felix Hernandez, there are some familiar names that hit the list in the process of projecting each MLB team's ace five years from now.

Of course, there are also plenty of unfamiliar faces on the slides that follow. After all, five years is a long time, and lots can change between now and the start of the 2020 campaign. Some of the starters who made the cut have yet to throw a professional pitch, while others are prominent prospects who are on the verge of making the majors.

The following is not a recording: The Chicago Cubs are calling up an elite hitting prospect.

That's been a hobby of theirs in 2015, as they tabbed Kris Bryant in late April and Addison Russell shortly after him. Now they're calling on Kyle Schwarber. And once he arrives, the Cubs will be offering a glimpse of something both wondrous and powerful: their future lineup.

But first things first.

Baltimore Orioles first baseman Chris Davis doesn’t care much for that pesky shift. On Monday night at Camden Yards in a 4-0 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, he did something about it.

The deluge of top prospects arriving in MLB continued Monday night after news broke the Chicago Cubs would call up catcher Kyle Schwarber. Jesse Rogers of ESPN Chicago reported Schwarber will only be up for six days as the Cubs navigate interleague play.

With the July 31 MLB trade deadline just a month-and-a-half away, some Cincinnati Reds players are starting to find themselves involved in trade rumors.

Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria has returned to the lineup after leaving a June 15 contest against the Washington Nationals.

Mark Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times confirmed Longoria's return, as the Rays star is playing third base and batting third.