Jordan Zimmermann was named AL Pitcher of the Month for April after going 5-0 with a 0.55 ERA in his first five starts for Detroit

Manny Machado’s hot start has earned the Orioles third baseman American League Player of the Month honors for April.

Four weeks into the regular season, there are a dozen Major League teams with a winning record. None of them are in the National League West.

Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy is expected to be placed on the disabled list after Monday’s CT scan revealed a small fracture in his left foot.

Dexter Fowler was 2015’s shallowest center fielder, but the defensive metrics didn’t look kindly upon him for it. Thanks to a new mandate by Joe Maddon, Fowler has moved back by 17 feet, and he’s finding more success because of it.

Hey, it’s May! That’s right, the first month of the fantasy season is behind us already. We’ve reached the point where owners should have at least a sense of their teams’ strengths and weaknesses. Here’s hoping it’s more of the former than the latter.

MLB.com fantasy expert Fred Zinkie fielded questions from fans during a live Twitter chat (at @fantasy411) on Monday. Read through the best of the Q&A below. Questions and answers have been edited for clarity.

As fans cast their votes for who they deem worthy of 2016 All-Star status, MLB.com is going to look position by position through each league, continuing today with the American League third basemen.

One month (plus one day in May) into the season, the Red Sox are creating some excitement for a fan base that hasn’t gotten to experience the thrill of a pennant race the past two summers. At 15-10, the Red Sox can already boast this: At no point in 2014 or ’15 did Boston have a record that was five games over .500.

Major League Baseball on Monday announced the winners of the eighth annual Honorary Bat Girl contest, which recognizes baseball fans who have been affected by breast cancer and who demonstrate a commitment to supporting the fight against the disease.

The buzz had barely begun to hush from Miguel Cabrera’s second home run last Monday night — his statement that his bat was back — when Victor Martinez struck with his latest declaration.

The eventual AL West-champion Rangers were 7-14 last April, which tells you how much we should be paying attention to the standings right about now. But man, there’s got to be something we can pay attention to, right? Well, how about a few team- and league-wide trends that have pleasantly caught us off-guard?

Baseball came back. And it was wonderful.

Here come the Cubs, who were supposed to be here, and here come the White Sox, who weren’t, to produce the winningest April in the history of Chicago baseball.

We predicted the first 10 selections when we unveiled the MLBPipeline.com Top 50 Draft Prospects in December, and we’re back at it again now that we’ve expanded and updated the list to a Top 100.

Each of the Phillies’ six victories last week was won by a margin of three runs or fewer, as they leaned on their bullpen to back some strong outings from their starters. The efforts cemented Philadelphia’s status as “Bullpen of the Week presented by The Hartford.”

Christian Vazquez became the second player this weekend to hit a game-turning, first-pitch homer against Yankees reliever Dellin Betances, lifting the Red Sox to an 8-7 victory that completed a three-game sweep in the first rivalry series of the season.