The Rangers rolled the dice with the third pick of the day, taking right-hander Michael Matuella with the 78th overall selection. Once considered a candidate to go No. 1 overall, Matuella had his junior year derailed by injuries and underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery in April.

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

Mariano Rivera Jr. had a chance to follow in his father’s footsteps last year when the Yankees selected him in the 29th round of the MLB Draft. Rivera instead elected to return to Iona for his senior season with the hope of moving into the first 10 rounds of this year’s Draft. That wish came true on Tuesday, when the Nationals took him in the fourth round with the 134th overall pick on Day 2 of the 2015 Draft.

The Nationals hope they hit the jackpot with the 134th overall pick of the 2015 MLB Draft on Tuesday, which they used to select Mariano Rivera Jr.

The tightest race in National League voting on the 2015 Esurance All-Star Game Ballot is at catcher, where Cardinals backstop Yadier Molina has edged back in front of San Francisco’s Buster Posey for the top spot but leads by fewer than 5,000 votes.

The Cardinals have the best record in the Major Leagues, and they are getting lots of support in the latest National League update of voting on the 2015 Esurance All-Star Game Ballot, with four members in position to win starting roles in next month’s All-Star Game. The tightest race is at catcher, where Cardinals backstop Yadier Molina has edged back in front of San Francisco’s Buster Posey for the top spot. They are separated by only 4,898 votes.

The most popular active Major League player in New York, post-Derek Jeter era, was standing in the middle of a lunchtime madhouse scene on Tuesday, right next to the Flatiron Building at 23rd and Broadway. It was Matt Harvey Eve.

The Cubs picked up a potential bullpen arm and a pitcher manager Joe Maddon knows well, signing 35-year-old Rafael Soriano to a Minor League contract.

Each spring at MLB.com, we publish the annual Player Preview, taking our best shot at predicting which players will take a step forward, which will maintain their pace and which should be avoided in fantasy drafts. As is to be expected, it’s an imperfect science, with many players vastly exceeding expectations and many failing to live up to them.

In the Marlins’ 11-3 loss to the Blue Jays, Giancarlo Stanton homered (his 19th of the season) and collected two doubles. Stanton has produced an extra-base hit in 11.4 percent of his career plate appearances. There are 17 players in history who concluded their age-25 season with at least 2,000 plate appearances and an extra-base hit percentage of at least 11.0, including these following Hall of Famers: Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Ducky Medwick, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.

The Braves will add Aardsma to their roster before Tuesday night’s game against the Padres. Cody Martin was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett after surrendering a pair of 11th-inning runs in Monday night’s 5-3 loss to the Padres.

Shortstops dominated the first round of the 2015 Draft on Monday night. Vanderbilt’s Dansby Swanson, Louisiana State’s Alex Bregman and Lake Mary (Fla.) High’s Brendan Rodgers went 1-2-3 to the D-backs, Astros and Rockies, respectively, marking the first time in the Draft’s history that shortstops comprised the first three selections. A total of eight were selected in the first round, tying a record set in 1971 and 2002.

All eight remaining schools in the College World Series had at least one player selected on Monday. Here is a quick look at how they fared in the Super Regional, along with others on MLB.com’s Top 200 prospects list who could come off the board on Tuesday.

As Rob Manfred began calling names Monday in his first MLB Draft as Commissioner, a trend quickly emerged. Clubs went to college to find polished players in the early stages of the first round.

Shortstop was the undisputed hot spot on Monday night in the first round of Major League Baseball’s Draft. Arizona selected Vanderbilt shortstop Dansby Swanson with the first overall pick, and a couple of highly touted infielders were taken right behind him.

For the Astros, Monday was one of the biggest in many seasons, thanks to the convergence of Carlos Correa’s arrival and a historic Draft in which Houston held two of the first five picks.

The Braves bullpen cost the Braves again in a 5-3 loss to the Padres on Monday in game one of a four-game series at Turner Field.