MLB Bullets Is The Same Old Song

Most of the baseball news the past few days all center on the draft, and I think we have that covered elsewhere. A lot of the other news surrounds the All-Star Game voting, which I decided I just didn't care about a few years ago. You might want to try not caring too. There are enough real problems in life and even in baseball to get agitated about that I don't need to get upset by a exhibition game. If Missouri wants to have their little exhibition, let them. I don't need to watch.

• Chris Heston of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth Giants pitcher in four years to throw a no-hitter when he turned the feat against the Mets last night. Heston struck out 11 and walked no one, although he did hit three batters. At the end, he got on his knees and started pounding the mound and he said "We finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Aww damn you all to hell" as the camera pulled up to see the giant Apple at Citi Field. I have no idea what that was about.
• Alex Pavlovic has a more detailed recap of Heston's feat and he manages to do it without making any "Planet of the Apes" jokes.
• David Schoenfield thinks Heston is more than just an older rookie pitcher who got lucky last night.
• Grant Brisbee has 50 awesome things about the no-hitter.
• The Red Sox fan who was injured by a broken bat has been upgraded to fair condition.
• Commissioner Rob Manfred says that MLB will re-evaluate fan safety. He refused to comment on any specific actions MLB might take.
• Brett Lawrie, whose bat it was that injured the fan, sent her flowers and a note. Her family thanked Lawrie for his gesture.
• Carlos Correa, the best prospect in baseball since, oh, I guess Kris Bryant in April, hit his first career home run on Tuesday in his second game. Took Sparkles a lot longer than that.
• Bob Nightengale writes that Correa and the Astros are big deals right now and they both know it.
• Rob Neyer explains why the Astros called up Correa when they did.
• The Mets have not called up prospect Steven Matz. While some in the New York media have suggested it's because they're trying to avoid the super-two deadline, Dave Cameron writes the real reason is there's just no room in the Mets rotation.
• After his second start since coming off the DL, Masahiro Tanaka looks like his old self, writes Andrew Marchand.
• Owen Watson looks at why Cleveland's stellar rotation is so good and so bad at the same time. (Hint: it involves bad defense and bad luck.)
• Jeff Sullivan explains how Chris Sale uses all his pitches to be so good.
• Matthew Kory thinks Paul Goldschmidt really is one of the best players in baseball.
• David Ortiz is struggling, but he called critics who think he's finished as a productive ballplayer "disrespectful" and that he's "not washed up." Yes, people have written the end of Ortiz's career before and they've been wrong. But one day, David, they're going to be right and you'd better realize that.
• Justin Verlander will make his season debut on Saturday.
• MLB renewed their agreement with Sportsvision to provide all that cool tracking technology, but only through the end of the season. This has people thinking that MLB is planning to switch to rival technology Statcast next season.
• Some draft stories. Michael Baumann introduces you to Dansby Swanson, the first pick in Mondays' draft. He had a pretty incredible day on Monday. Unfortunately, he's not related to Ron Swanson.
• Swanson was a college shortstop from Vanderbilt. David Schoenfield wonders where have all the top college shortstops gone? (Long time passing.) The last shortstop drafted out of college in the first round to have a major league career as an everyday shortstop was Troy Tulowitzki, who was drafted in 2005.
• Jayson Stark says it's time to let teams trade picks. I'm not against allowing draft picks to be traded. I am against allowing them to be traded so the draft can be "more interesting."
• C.J. Nitkowski explains what it was like for him to get drafted among the top ten picks.
• Matthew Poullot list the top player ever drafted at each of the top ten draft positions.
• You've no doubt seen by now that Pat Venditte became baseball's first "amphibious" pitcher, at least according to one newspaper.
• And finally, Brandon Moss hit his 100th career home run into the Indians bullpen. The bullpen decided to hold the ball for ransom, demanding Apple products for each member of the pen. Apple decided to pay the ransom for Moss. With one exception.