Major League Baseball All-Star Week

After taking All-Star MVP honors last year, Mike Trout opened the 86th Midsummer Classic with a homer en route to becoming the first player to win the award back-to-back times and the fifth to do it twice. The AL beat the NL for the third straight year to earn home-field advantage in the World Series.

Todd Frazier had the joint jumping, his home crowd behind him screaming and exactly the right flair for the dramatic on Monday night. Not only did Frazier not disappoint, the Reds third baseman put on a tremendous show to win the Gillette Home Run Derby presented by Head & Shoulders at Great American Ball Park.

Just as in years past, there was no lack of entertainment value during the 2015 edition of the MLB All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game, the closing act of All-Star Sunday. The six-inning tilt at Great American Ball Park featured plenty of scoring, successful usage of instant replay in more than one challenge, some gritty play (recording artist Macklemore sported a bloody leg) and plenty of hijinks (Snoop Dogg leaping a fence, anyone?

Get used to seeing many of these names and players in a Major League ballpark -- some sooner than later. Several prospects represented themselves and their organizations well in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game as the U.