Mark Trumbo and Jose Altuve’s recent homer barrages have powered the pair to American League Player of the Week honors.

Under sunny skies on a crisp, clear day, the Red Sox celebrated Patriots’ Day in grand fashion on Monday at Fenway Park before falling to the Blue Jays, 4-3.

On a day in which the Red Sox turned five double plays, it was the soaring Jackie Bradley Jr. who made the most aesthetically pleasing play in a 4-3 loss to the Blue Jays on Patriots’ Day.

Two of the National League’s top power hitters were named co-NL Players of the Week on Monday, as Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper and Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado shared the honor.

Forget the result. No manager can control that. John Farrell wasn’t sleep-deprived because of the early Patriots’ Day start on Monday in Boston. Turning to Craig Kimbrel in the eighth inning of the Red Sox’s 4-3 loss shows he was on top of his game.

Though the season will be chock full of final moments for David Ortiz, Monday was not one of them as the retiring Red Sox slugger was not part of Patriots’ Day starting lineup for Boston.

Kendal Young is a fifth-grader in Spring Lake, a West Michigan village where growing up as one of the few Africans-Americans became the subject of her powerful essay. Sadie Chamberlain is an eighth-grader in West Burke, Vt., and her writing was an inspirational account of overcoming stereotypes related to life with cerebral palsy.

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It took Trevor Bauer a few days to digest the news that he was going to start this season in the bullpen. Even now, two weeks into the regular season, the young pitcher still states that his preference would be to eventually return to the Indians’ rotation.

Nothing gets cleared up these first two weeks. We think we know and then we don’t. Every game has more importance than it should. That said, there are definite positive vibes in at least a few places.

Teams that have almost as many players in their 40s as players in their 20s starting every day aren’t often known for their prowess on the basepaths. But 11 games into the 2016 season, the Yankees are showing not just a marked improvement in stealing bases from last year, they’re showing the league up.

Outfielders Bryce Harper of the Nationals and Mike Trout of the Angels have become the face of baseball’s youth movement. They do, however, have plenty of company. Baseball, arguably, has as many young stars today as it has ever had.

One of Bryce Harper’s walk-up songs at Nationals Park is “The Best is Yet to Come” by Frank Sinatra, which Harper started using on his way to winning the National League MVP Award last season. After that breakout season, considered historic by some measures, Harper kept Sinatra’s song in his rotation of walk-up music, even though expecting Harper to improve upon last year was a tall and somewhat unfair task.

On April 18, 1966, the Astros hosted the Dodgers in their home opener at the Astrodome in Houston, in the first Major League game played on artificial turf, which at that point covered only the infield.

You have heard players, coaches, managers, front office personnel all say something like this: “We have a good mix of veterans and young players.” This just in: Everybody has that mix in varying degrees. The difference from club to club is whether the veterans and the young players are any good.

In Toronto’s 5-3 win over Boston on Sunday, Jose Bautista doubled and homered. Consider the extraordinary turnaround in the career of this six-time All-Star.

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