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High up in the Himalayas between Tibet and India sits the small Buddhist country of Bhutan. Sometimes known as the world’s last Shangri-La, this nation of snowy alpine peaks and untouched mountain streams has fewer than 700,000 people who call it home.

And yet perhaps the most remote country in the world is on its way to being a baseballing nation, growing from a few dozen kids playing on a concrete slab after school to more than 6,000 children who are fast becoming baseball fanatics despite few having ever seen a Major League game.

This is the story of how the sport is beginning to grow in one of the unlikeliest places in the world.

All the moves that went down leading up to Aug. 1 will have a ripple effect, most noticeably on the Hot Stove season, which is sure to bring more surprises.

The city of Birmingham, Ala., and the Friends of Rickwood nonprofit announced the new logo and renovations coming to Rickwood Field for next year’s MLB game at America’s oldest ballpark.

You’ve heard of switch-hitters, and even switch-pitchers. But Anthony Seigler is a … switch-fielder? It’s not something you’re going to see very often.

Michael Massey and Bobby Witt Jr. hook up for the type of double play where you can’t decide which part is smoother, the dive or the turn.

The Braves are in Chicago to face the Cubs at 2 p.m. ET. Then catch the Blue Jays against the Red Sox at 7, and join the Dodgers and Padres at 10.

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