Author: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY

Major League Baseball is about to become much more overtly commercial.

With just three or four games down and six months remaining, it’s premature but harmless to kick around what mattered most from the opening weekend.

“I’m super proud to be a New York Met,” Francisco Lindor said after his team emptied the dugout to confront the Nationals after he was hit by a pitch.

Three major league teams will take advantage of expanded rosters in April and carry 16 pitchers to begin the season.

Max Scherzer’s first start as a Met is as good an example as any of how Opening Day amplifies both the fear and glory of baseball’s impermanence.

Here’s a half-dozen stars whose performance and health may determine how the 2022 MLB picture shakes out.

MLB is pushing to create an international draft, but Dominicans such as Wander Franco and Rafael Devers worry it will hurt young players back home.

The Phillies’ annual investments in star players continues this year with the additions of free agents Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos.

Toronto won 91 games and just missed out on the postseason in 2021 – which Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says was just a preview for what’s to come.

New York Yankees taking “financially responsible” approach to 2022 with recent trade, signing of Anthony Rizzo.