This far into the 2026 MLB season, we’ve seen all sorts of standout performances from a variety of players, from established stars to inexperienced prospects to surprise performers.

But who will be the best at their positions when the season comes to a close?

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Jacob Misiorowski is the hardest-throwing starting pitcher in the hardest-throwing season on record, which means we can start right off here with the big, flashing premise: Misiorowski is (probably) the hardest-throwing starting pitcher of all time, and you get to see him, right now.

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MINNEAPOLIS – Ryan Jeffers is headed to the injured list and Royce Lewis is headed to the Minor Leagues. Those were the two biggest pieces of news as the Twins made a string of transactions on Tuesday afternoon.

Lewis, the team’s starting third baseman for most of the year and a

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Noah Syndergaard has not pitched in Major League Baseball since 2023, and he hasn’t suited up for the Mets since 2021. Jacob deGrom, who’s putting together another strong year with the Rangers, hasn’t pitched for New York since 2022.

And yet, two of the mastheads of a bygone era in Queens

PHILADELPHIA -- After sitting out the Phillies' 5-4 win over the Reds on Monday night, Kyle Schwarber was out of the starting lineup again for Tuesday's tilt.

Schwarber woke up feeling "under the weather," according to interim manager Don Mattingly on Monday.

The club had been hoping he'd improve enough to return

It’s probably fair to say the Nationals have been a pleasant surprise in 2026, with a 23-25 record after overhauling virtually their entire infrastructure over the offseason. They’re young on the field, led by offensive standouts James Wood and CJ Abrams, and off of it. President of baseball

WASHINGTON -- The Mets, who have benefited greatly from an infusion of youth and speed in recent weeks, are adding even more of it to their roster.

The team promoted No. 11 prospect Nick Morabito on Tuesday, adding him to a roster that already includes A.J. Ewing and Carson

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The 29-19 Dodgers, the back-to-back reigning World Series Champions who reloaded their roster again in the offseason, are not leading the NL West.

After Monday’s 1-0 victory, the Padres (29-18) have overtaken Los Angeles for a half-game advantage, continuing what has become one of baseball’s best rivalries.

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The Yankees and Blue Jays entered the season as favorites to once again vie for the AL East title, though the battle hasn't gone as expected so far.

While New York (29-19) is right in the thick of things in the divisional race, three games behind the first-place Rays, the defending

The Braves could be without one of their biggest contributors for an extended stretch. Drake Baldwin, who leads all big league catchers with 13 homers, was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right oblique strain on Tuesday morning.

The club selected the contract of catcher Chadwick Tromp and activated

The East-West Classic is back for the third straight year, headlined by team captains CC Sabathia (West) and Chris Young (East) among a bevy of fellow former Major League All-Stars.

Full rosters have been revealed for this year’s East vs. West Game, which will be held at historic Rickwood Field on

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WASHINGTON -- One by one and two by two, they came around to score, rapidly transforming a close game into a laugher. Throughout the 10th and 11th innings at Nationals Park, the mood was tense.

In the 12th, things changed entirely.

ANAHEIM -- It took only six pitches for the Angels to go from potentially being on the wrong side of history to winning in an incredibly unlikely fashion.

They came into the ninth inning being no-hit by A's right-hander J.T. Ginn, only for Adam Frazier to break up the no-hitter with

SAN DIEGO -- The eighth inning ended, the lights went out, the heavy metal chords blared, and -- with first place on the line in the National League West -- the familiar, hulking figure of Mason Miller emerged from the left-center-field bullpen at Petco Park.

It all unfolded pretty much the

SEATTLE -- Colt Emerson was in such a rush to get to T-Mobile Park on Sunday that he couldn’t call his parents to share the news of a lifetime until he was navigating the trenches of Interstate 5.

The Mariners’ prized new infielder had the tightest of turnarounds between <a href="https://www.mlb.com/mariners/news/colt-emerson-mariners-callup"

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NEW YORK – David Bednar looked gassed in a ninth inning that seemed primed for disaster on Monday night, one run already home and two more Blue Jays dancing off the bases. George Springer waited with a bat in hand, ready to add to a collection of ruined pinstriped evenings.

“It’s

CHICAGO -- Memories came flooding back for Milwaukee president of baseball operations Matt Arnold on Monday while he sat in Wrigley Field’s first-base dugout. The first pitch of the first meaningful Brewers-Cubs regular-season game since last year’s National League Division Series was fast approaching.

“Think of the magnitude of that series,”

CHICAGO -- Pete Crow-Armstrong thrives on emotion as a player, but the Cubs' center fielder recognizes that he took things too far in a heated interaction with a White Sox fan on Sunday afternoon. It was a caught-on-camera moment made for social media and it, predictably, caught fire online into

Like a modern Mount Olympus, the National Baseball Hall of Fame's doors open only to the greatest of the greats, those remarkable ballplayers who stood out from their big league brethren the way the Greek gods towered over us mere mortals.

But for those players who didn't put together the numbers

PHILADELPHIA -- Andrew Painter once again did his job on Monday night.

And, once again, Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly didn't want to push it.

Painter completed six innings for the first time in his young career in the club's 5-4 win over the Reds at Citizens Bank Park. Yet