BALTIMORE -- It isn't quite the knee-jerk panic of a slow April, but with baseball past it's quarter pole and rounding the corner to the midway point, there's a lot of players who need to kick their finish into high gear.
At the top of the American League East, there's a race between Boston and New York that shows no signs of not going down to the wire, making a resurgence from a slumping player on either -- or both -- clubs all the more intriguing. For Toronto, Tampa Bay and Baltimore, there are still plenty of candidates for a second-half surge, whether it's a big-name pending free agent or an established veteran playing nowhere near his track record.