Who were the biggest coups in the draft? Will the holdouts until the last seconds before the deadline ever end? What kind of compensation will the Yankees get for failing to sign first-rounder Gerrit Cole?

The Mets ended their six-game winning streak in Pittsburgh on Monday but still remain in first place in the National League East.

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When you think of Best Tools, at first blush you tend to think of them as easily quantifiable physical skills. A player either runs fast or runs slow. He has a strong arm or he does not. He can crush balls over the fence or he cannot. On closer examination, though, all the supposedly simple physical tools have a subtler element, the certain something that translates physical ability into successful application on the diamond.

With 38 games to play the Yankees face a difficult, but not insurmountable, task in trying to assure themselves a postseason berth.

MILWAUKEE (AP) - CC Sabathia improved his perfect record with the Milwaukee Brewers, pitching another complete game Monday night in a 9-3 victory over the Houston Astros. Sabathia also hit a two-run single in a five-run fourth inning. He is 8-0 with a

It makes perfect sense that Joe Mauer would relate playing behind the plate in baseball to standing behind center in football. After all, Minnesota's all-star catcher was named the Gatorade national high school football player of the year a few months before the Twins made the St. Paul, Minn., product the first overall pick in the 2001 draft.

Mill Creek, Wash., got home runs from four players including two from left-handed slugger Alec Kisena in a 16-hit attack that overpowered Hagerstown, Md., 15-5, in an elimination game of the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa.

MINNEAPOLIS ? Kirk Saarloos pitched 3?2/3 shutout innings after Justin Duchscherer left with a hip injury and the Oakland A's beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Monday night. Mark Ellis homered and Kurt Suzuki had two RBIs for Oakland, which got a nice

Derrek Lee may be a great hitter, but his glove may be his best attribute, as his fellow Cubs infielders will attest.