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Mariano Rivera is one of the faces of the New York Yankees, and has been since the 1990s. But that may have never been the case if he hadn't been undrafted in the 1992 Major League Baseball expansion draft, the number 34 moment of our countdown.

Really! No tricks with this headline. It was almost amazing, really, and speaks to today's baseball. The National League's starting pitcher in the All-Star Game, and the biggest piece of the Mets turnaround hadn't thrown a complete game, until Wednesday night when he pitched the Mets to a 5-0 shutout of the Colorado Rockies...

This New York Mets season has been like many others.  Dreadful, lost for cause and filled with hope in the beginning and eventual failure.  Not even a host All-Star Game, filled with Mariano Rivera celebration and David Wright and Matt Harvey standing ovations could save the day for those walking off the 7 train and into the ballpark.

One of the most popular Red Sox players in their history, George Scott, has died at the age of 69. No details of his death have been announced. Nicknamed Boomer, Scott was a large man who played with a soft glove, nimble feet, a golden touch, and a big man's power...

He is baseball's newest phenom in terms of position players.  He may have saved Don Mattingly's job in Los Angeles.  He went on camera and said he was the best Dodger player.  He went on camera and said he was the best-looking Dodger.  Everything was perfect for Yasiel Puig until July 12.

With the Yankees recently having played in Colorado, one of the great baseball players of the last two decades (save 2008, 2010 and 2012, but everyone has bad or injured years over the course of a career) wasn't talked about much again.  He has been underrated through the years.  Why?  Who knows?  But Todd Helton is a future Hall of Famer.

Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly, Derek Jeter and now Robinson Cano.  Those are the only five Yankees to collect 1,500 hits before the age of 31.

The Yanks have Monday, May 6 off, then play 17 games in 16 days starting with a three-game set out in Colorado.  New York comes off of a tough series loss to Oakland where it dropped two of three.  Colorado, meantime, lost two of three at home to Tampa Bay.  Here is a series preview:

April is over.  May is in.  The Red Sox had a heck of a month.  The Yankees went 16-10 to the surprise of some.  The Rangers and Tigers have proved already that they are most likely division winners.  The Braves' Upton brothers carried the load...

Back in the summer of 2010, the Colorado Rockies selected Russell Wilson with the 140th overall pick of the MLB Draft, who played second base for the North Carolina State baseball team. A year and a half later, Wilson is finally turning pro, but not in baseball.