MLB Trade Rumors: Brewers Turn Focus To Brian Dozier After Losing Out on Manny Machado  —  Which contending teams will shake up their roster and make a deal before the trade deadline?  —  The All-Star break is officially over as teams start the second half of the season.

What would it take for the Cubs to pull off a deGrom blockbuster?  —  CHICAGO — It's a dilemma every general manager grapples with at one time or another: Do you make a trade from a strength to shore up a weakness while hoping and praying that moving those parts doesn't create a new hole to fill?

MLB trade rumors: Padres' Brad Hand to Phillies talk increasing?  —  With Manny Machado off the table, the Phillies will have to get creative in order to improve for the stretch run.  —  One idea that could lead to more wins: Upgrading the bullpen with another dominant arm …

Column: After a brief lull, we now return to our regularly scheduled baseball season  —  Photos from the 2018 MLB All-Star Game at Nationals Park in Washington on Tuesday, July 17, 2018.  —  Chicago Tribune  —  After chilling out the last few days — whether at home …

Keith Law's midseason top 50 prospects update  —  A handful of promotions earlier this season have shuffled the top of my rankings, which now feature five players signed as international (July 2nd) free agents in the first five slots.  The list also skews quite young, with teenagers constituting more than 20% of the players here.

Duquette: Machado Trade Marks Beginning Of Rebuild  —  The trade of Manny Machado to the Dodgers will be the first of many for the Orioles, as executive vice president/general manager Dan Duquette told reporters in a conference call Wednesday night that the Orioles are set to embark on a rebuild …

Angels praise Mike Trout for ‘prioritizing personal values’  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels publicly praised Mike Trout “for prioritizing his personal values over commercial self-promotion” a day after baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said the All-Star outfielder …

Perfect ‘10’ at plate?  White Sox's Eloy Jimenez strives for excellence during journey to bigs  —  Photos of the White Sox outfielder and No. 4-ranked prosepct by Baseball America.  —  Chicago Tribune  —  Eloy Jimenez once sprinted to right field to take his position before the game's first pitch.

Orioles get quantity, but no future stars, in Machado trade  —  The Orioles missed their ideal window for trading Manny Machado, which would have been last offseason so the acquiring team would have gotten a whole year of playing time plus the potential to get a draft pick as compensation when he hits free agency this winter.

Winning isn't the only thing: Realistic second-half goals for all 30 teams  —  Before the season, we wanted to define what success would look like for every major league team this year.  We believe in a broad definition of success, and we tried to appreciate that a single great memory …

Indians' Jose Ramirez's putting together MVP-caliber season  —  If anyone is looking for a player whose banner would be worthy of filling the void on the now LeBron James-less Sherwin-Williams building in downtown Cleveland, the Indians' Jose Ramirez has made the best case thus far.

Column: The problem is too many relievers, too few balls put in play.  Here's a solution.  —  Chicago Tribune  —  Want to see a manager break into hives?  —  Tell him you have an idea to give baseball fans more of what they want (runs) and less of what they don't (mound visits).

Yu Darvish still ‘weeks away,’ Cubs pitching coach tells the Score  —  Chicago Tribune  —  Yu Darvish is not close to rejoining the Cubs.  —  Cubs pitching coach Jim Hickey confirmed everyone's suspicion Thursday morning during an interview on WSCR-AM 670, saying Darvish is “a number of weeks” away.

Mets midseason report card: Grading the Amazin's at the break  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wait, it's only been half a season?  It feels like the Mets have already produced a season-and-a-half worth of drama and bad baseball.  GM Sandy Alderson has stepped down to deal with a recurrence of cancer …

Rangers-ex Harrison trades baseball for a different farm system... and reality TV?  —  Things haven't slowed down too much for Matt Harrison, though, he isn't flying across the country anymore playing baseball for the Texas Rangers.  —  His playing days, shortened by injury …