Tigers shortstop prospect Eugenio Suarez, who was expected to make his first big league start Thursday, is listed as day to day after injuring his left knee after an awkward slide into second base Wednesday.

Despite losing young ace Jose Fernandez last month to season-ending Tommy John surgery, the Marlins will have no qualms about using top Draft picks on hard-throwing young pitchers.

This is another important day in the Astros’ rebirth. They aren’t just hoping to add another good player in today’s First-Year Player Draft. They’re hoping to add a cornerstone player, the kind of player that can help propel a team into October.

The Rays will honor baseball legend Don Zimmer with a moment of silence at Thursday’s game at Tropicana Field, and the club also will conduct a special pregame ceremony before Saturday’s game. On Wednesday night, however, the Rays honored Zimmer with their words as they shared what he meant to them during his 11 years with the organization.

Once again, the future has arrived, and baseball fans get to watch it play out it all its glory. Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft, which has evolved into a three-day extravaganza packed with superstar potential, global intrigue and the undeniable emotional impact of life-changing moments on display, is upon us.

His distinctions live on, and now that he is gone, form a baseball legend more entertaining than most. Don Zimmer — Zim, Zimmy, Zip, Popeye or however you knew him — left us Wednesday, seemingly reducing the number of characters in the game by more than one.

Hisashi Iwakuma fanned seven over seven shutout frames as the Mariners pushed their winning streak to five with a 2-0 victory over the Braves on Wednesday at Turner Field.

The Tigers anounced Wednesday that shortstop Jose Iglesias will not return this season. Iglesias is recovering from stress fractures in both of his shins, and general manager Dave Dombrowski told The Detroit News that the team expects the infielder to take the rest of the year to recover.

The Rockies announced Wednesday that the club has placed outfielder Carlos Gonzalez on the 15-day disabled list with left index finger inflammation.

Eugenio Suarez is getting his shot to hold down the Tigers’ shortstop job. The team has called up the 22-year-old prospect from Triple-A Toledo, as they shake up their shortstop mix for the third time in three months.

Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez had nothing to lose when he challenged whether Justin Upton was out on a groundout to Mariners shortstop Brad Miller in the bottom of the ninth in Wednesday afternoon’s 2-0 loss at Turner Field.

The hardest part of the job for the curators at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is deciding which priceless artifacts belong in display cases and which stay in the archive. Now, the VIP Experience gives fans a chance to also see behind-the-scene artifacts in Cooperstown.

In the months before the Braves selected right-hander Shae Simmons in the 22nd round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, the 5-foot-11 hurler had some “weird” conversations with scouts.

Every lineup, every day, as they are made public by the clubs.

Marlins starter Henderson Alvarez has three wins this season, all coming via shutout, including Tuesday night’s 1-0 win over the Rays. In fact, dating back to his no-hitter last year, each of Alvarez’s past four wins have come in shutouts.

Because time has a way of abstracting outrage, Ten-Cent Beer Night is probably more a source of civic pride than embarrassment in Cleveland. Clevelanders wear their bruises remarkably well, and enough time has passed that the arrests, the late-night punchlines and the forfeit are all viewed as little more than hazy, quirky qualities of a hazy, quirky time in American history.

These days, teams don’t have to wait as long for a return on their investments from the First Year Player Draft. Players are going from the Draft to the big leagues as fast as ever, and clubs are considering ETAs when they weigh their selections.