Opinion

It's been 107 years since the last time the Chicago Cubs were at the summit of the baseball world, but if you look around the diamond when they're on the field, you'll see a core group with the potential to end the curse.

The span of an inch or two made all the difference for Carlos Gomez on Sunday.

The Milwaukee Brewers outfielder found himself flattened at home plate after taking a 97-mph Noah Syndergaard fastball to the head during the sixth inning of his team's 5-1 loss to the New York Mets.

The Philadelphia Phillies had a nice, productive outing against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday. 

Riding the emotional wave of surviving the Mountain on Friday, Philadelphia's bats and pitching collaborated to lay down a 6-0 blanking of Arizona, completing a three-game homestand sweep of its Western guests.

Prior to this year, Nelson Cruz has been known as strictly a power hitter. He averaged 27 home runs per season from 2009-2013 and then made the most of his one season in Baltimore by leading the league in round-trippers last year.

It doesn't take much time to run out of superlatives when describing Miguel Cabrera’s ability to make square contact with a baseball.

Another week, another bundle of Major League Baseball storylines to take in.

We're into Week 6 of the 2015 MLB season, and it's been just about as crowded with things happening as the five weeks that preceded it. But rather than touch on everything that happened, we're going to pick an odd number and focus our attention on the seven biggest takeaways from the week's action.

We'll go in order from least interesting to most interesting. Step into the box whenever you're ready.

By launching the 400th home run of his impressive career Friday, Adrian Beltre furthered, if not solidified, his understated but already strong Hall of Fame credentials.

Thor Bjornsson, also known as Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane in HBO's Game of Thrones, is in Philadelphia taking in the Phillies' home tilt against the Arizona Diamondbacks on this fine Friday afternoon.

While your first instinct might be to pack a bag of nonperishables and flee the city, rest assured that The Mountain has come in peace—kind of.

The youth movement in Major League Baseball is no longer a secret, as some of the very best players in the game are under 30.

But there are several rookies who are turning heads so far this season as well. 

You would not be bending any limbs before the season to declare that the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals might be the best teams in their respective divisions.

At least one of those two franchises have appeared in five World Series since 2004, and they faced each other in the 2006 Fall Class with the Cardinals winning it all in five games. And since 2000, they have combined to win 12 division titles, with St. Louis holding eight of those.