We hope he’s getting his Oscar acceptance speech ready now.

Jim Callis identifies some of the biggest risers and fallers among prospects eligible for the 2016 Draft.

Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper is sticking with Under Armour for the foreseeable future. The company announced Tuesday it has signed Harper, the reigning National League Most Valuable Player Award winner, to a multiyear endorsement extension. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but ESPN reported the extension was believed to be for 10 years and the largest endorsement deal for a baseball player in history.

We’re about to learn a bit more about both the 18-8 White Sox and the 15-10 Red Sox — two first-place teams, two teams awash in good vibes. That’s what a three-game series beginning Tuesday night at U.S. Cellular Field represents.

St. Louis’ Yadier Molina and San Francisco’s Buster Posey have been the class of NL backstops for the past several years, with one of the two starting five of the seven All-Star Games since 2009.

Ryan Braun is hitting like he always does, which is to say “very very good.” That being the case, he’s rebuilt his trade value, which is important to a Milwaukee team focusing on the future. Where might Braun end up? We look at three possible landing spots.

Left-hander Gio Gonzalez threw six shutout innings and Ryan Zimmerman delivered an RBI double as the Nationals held off the slumping Royals, 2-0, at Kauffman Stadium on Monday night.

Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy continues to be a hitting machine. By collecting his first two hits in Monday night’s 2-0 win against the Royals, Murphy reached career hit No. 1,000 at Kauffman Stadium.

The Cardinals got five home runs Monday, including a three-run shot by pitcher Adam Wainwright, to snap the Phillies’ six-game winning streak.

Dallas Keuchel suffered his first defeat at Minute Maid Park in a span of 23 regular-season starts on Monday, allowing five runs, five walks and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings in a 6-2 loss to the Twins. Twins rookie Jose Berrios, making the second start of his career, held the Astros to three hits and two runs in 5 1/3 innings for his first Major League win.

The last time the Brewers beat the Angels in Milwaukee before Monday, the Brewers played at County Stadium, the Angels had just traded the “California” for an “Anaheim” in their name, and Jimmy Nelson was just shy of his eighth birthday.

The last time the Pirates and Cubs took the field at PNC Park, Chicago beat up on Pittsburgh’s ace and stifled the Bucs’ bats en route to a National League Wild Card Game victory. The circumstances may have been different, but the script was largely the same in the Cubs’ 7-2 win on Monday night.

Their Sunday stumble against the Giants squarely behind them, the Mets wasted no time Monday returning to their winning ways. Bartolo Colon delivered eight shutout innings, and the Mets backed him with three first-inning homers in a 4-1 win over the Braves.

Nomar Mazara hit a go-ahead home run in the top of the eighth and made a game-saving outfield assist in the bottom half of the inning to lead the Rangers over the Blue Jays, 2-1, at Rogers Centre on Monday night, the first meeting between the two teams since last year’s American League Division Series.

Sending 11 men to the plate in a six-run, six-hit bottom of the third inning, the Reds got the best of their former ace Johnny Cueto. But the Giants beat up a vulnerable bullpen for five runs in the top of the seventh to get the 9-6 win Monday at Great American Ball Park.

Count the Angels among the many teams that are keeping tabs on Tim Lincecum, the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner who is expected to throw in front of scouts for the first time on Friday. It’s hard to gauge the Angels’ interest at this point, largely because Lincecum’s offseason training has been so secretive.

Rockies shortstop Trevor Story’s historic April, with a Major League-record-tying 10 home runs among several feats and firsts, was commemorated Monday when he received the National League Rookie of the Month Award. He became the Rockies’ first rookie monthly winner since Ian Stewart in July 2008.