Real or Not?  This Astros offense could be the best in MLB history  —  There is something remarkable going on in the early weeks of 2019.  Here is a list of best offenses in the past 100 years, ranked by the weighted runs created formula at FanGraphs (wRC+ adjusts for the league run environment and home park with 100 being average):

High fastballs haunting Diamondbacks' Christian Walker in latest slump  —  On multiple occasions on Sunday afternoon, the Atlanta Braves attacked an area of the strike zone that is becoming increasingly popular against Diamondbacks slugger Christian Walker.  —  Armed with fastballs in the mid-90s …

Yankees' Miguel Andujar back on the IL and should now go the surgery route to fix shoulder  —  A scout watching the Yankees at Tropicana Field on Saturday night made note of Miguel Andujar's bat speed.  —  “He looks sluggish.  The bat speed doesn't look like it did,” the National League scout noted.

Since April 10, the Cubs are winning at a 77.8 percent rate.  Here are 5 ways they're pulling it off.  —  Photos from the Cubs' 4-1 win over the Brewers on May 12, 2019, at Wrigley Field.  —  How hot are the Cubs running?  —  Forget for a second about Kris Bryant hitting five home runs …

Rangers have a doozy of a problem: how does the club deal with struggling Rougned Odor and Nomar Mazara?  —  The Rangers have been here before.  —  “Here” being in Kansas City with a badly struggling Rougned Odor and nearing the proverbial end of their rope on ways to get him going.

Watch: Francisco Lindor launches hardest-hit home run of his Indians career  —  Cleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor belted the hardest-hit home run of his career against the Chicago White Sox Monday night.  —  CLEVELAND — Cleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor is no stranger …

Flaherty trying to straighten ‘crooked numbers’  —  ATLANTA — With all his weapons, including an arsenal of well above-average pitches and a competitive ferocity, young Cardinals righthander Jack Flaherty is only 11-14 in his major-league career.  And the Cardinals are but 18-23 …

Hernandez, Phillies rally past Brewers  —  Cesar Hernandez homered and had two hits, two RBIs and three runs scored to lift the host Philadelphia Phillies past the Milwaukee Brewers 7-4 on Monday.  —  Andrew McCutchen, J.T. Realmuto and Maikel Franco each added two hits for the Phillies, who won their third in a row.

Jays' Thornton gets another shot at first win vs. Giants  —  The Toronto Blue Jays, swept by the Giants in a two-game interleague series three weeks ago, get a rematch with a two-game series that starts Tuesday in San Francisco.  —  The Giants made center fielder Kevin Pillar's return …

Resurgent Red Sox, Sale set to face Rockies  —  Chances are the Colorado Rockies aren't excited about their first trip to Fenway Park since 2016.  —  Not with the way the Boston Red Sox are playing.  —  The resurgent defending World Series champions, riding a season-best, five-game winning streak …

Where do baseball's elite starting pitchers come from?  —  The amateur draft is less than a month away and teams are starting to hunker down, getting in those final scouting trips and narrowing down their list of potential picks and players with the good faces.  —  Chris Paddack was once of those draft prospects.

What we've learned about Clayton Kershaw so far in 2019  —  LOS ANGELES — It was the fall of 2010, and Derek Jeter — 36 years old, by that point far more valuable to his old team than any new one — was a free agent for the first time.  He had no intentions of leaving the New York Yankees …

Angels' odd mix of Mike Trout & Co. inspires hope: ‘Nothing but belief in ourselves’  —  There's a certain numbing consistency to many of the eight seasons Mike Trout and Albert Pujols have spent with the Los Angeles Angels.  Trout, baseball's bullet train, amazes and inspires and stretches …

Rehab updates on Rays' Hunter Wood, Matt Duffy; Font trade with Mets completed  —  Wood threw two innings Monday, should be activated soon; Rays get 18-year-old hard thrower from Mets.  —  A couple of quick Rays updates:  —  • Reliever Hunter Wood threw two innings for the Class …

Jonathan Lucroy has bounced back offensively with Angels  —  The Angels are trying to keep Lucroy fresh by limiting his time behind the plate  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Jonathan Lucroy has rediscovered at least part of what made him one of baseball's best-hitting catchers a few years ago.

Watch Cody Bellinger throw out Stephen Strasburg at first  —  The Dodgers' Cody Bellinger robbed Washington's Stephen Strasburg of a sixth-inning single Sunday at Dodger Stadium.  (Getty Images)  —  When Gerardo Parra's eighth-inning drive one-hopped the wall in left-center field for a double …