Negotiations went down to the wire on Friday before the Marlins were able to reach one-year contract agreements with Giancarlo Stanton, Steve Cishek and Mike Dunn. The deals mean the club came to terms with all three of its arbitration-eligible players, avoiding hearings in February.

The Rangers have avoided arbitration with pitchers Neftali Feliz and Alexi Ogando and exchanged salary figures first baseman Mitch Moreland, their only remaining arbitration-eligible player.

Bochy, the San Francisco Giants’ skipper who’s entering a Major League-high 20th consecutive season as a manager, will receive the Tommy Lasorda Managerial Achievement Award at Saturday’s annual Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation dinner in Los Angeles.

Numerous top White Sox prospects and slightly more veteran young players who figure to play a significant big league role in 2014 took part in a three-day minicamp that ended Thursday at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz. But the first question for first-year White Sox hitting coach Todd Steverson during a Friday afternoon conference call had to do with Jose Abreu.

Esmil Rogers didn’t start taking baseball seriously until he was 14 years old. That surprising fact was revealed on Friday, when a young student at Sir Isaac Brock Public School in London, Ont., got his turn to ask a question to the four Toronto Blue Jays in attendance at the stop on the second leg of the club’s Winter Tour.

Ryan Braun will have his first big intermingling with Brewers fans since his suspension at the annual “Brewers On Deck” fan event on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Wisconsin Center.

The Tigers are still looking for a long-term agreement with American League Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer to avoid free agency next winter. For now, at least, they’ll settle for avoiding arbitration next month.

After skipping the 2013 season, what makes Brad Penny want to come back? The 35-year-old right-hander is in position to bid for a Major League rotation job with the Royals, perhaps his last chance.

One way for Clint Hurdle to assess newly adopted expanded instant replay is that Major League Baseball has just saved him a lot of money. The Pirates manager tied (with former Cubs skipper Dale Sveum) for getting thrown out of the most games during the 2013 season, and noted that each of his six ejections resulted from arguments triggered by plays that will now be reviewable.

The Cleveland Indians avoided arbitration with one of their half-dozen arbitration-eligible players on Friday, agreeing to terms with reliever Marc Rzepczynski on a one-year contract worth $1.375 million.

Right-hander Logan Kensing, who pitched 108 games as a reliever for the Marlins from 2004-09, and catcher Manny Pina have signed Minor League contracts with the Mariners with an invitation to Major League camp, the club announced Friday.

The Dodgers on Friday announced the signing of left-handed pitcher Clayton Kershaw to a seven-year contract through the 2020 season. The deal is worth $215 million, according to a source.

The Brewers went 2-for-2 and closed out their arbitration season successfully on Friday by signing pitcher Marco Estrada and first baseman-third baseman Juan Francisco to 2014 contracts.

One wrinkle of the revamped replay system will be the return of close plays being shown on MLB stadium scoreboards for the first time since a 1976 incident at Yankee Stadium in a game between the Yanks and O’s.

Is it safe to say the Dodgers are out on Masahiro Tanaka after the Clayton Kershaw deal? Can the White Sox unload Adam Dunn’s contract before the season? MLB.com columnist Phil Rogers answers fans’ questions in the Inbox.

Outfielder Josh Reddick remains the only unsigned arbitration-eligible player for the A’s after the club agreed to terms on one-year deals Friday with right-handed pitcher Luke Gregerson, infielders Jed Lowrie and Brandon Moss and outfielder Craig Gentry.

David Price agreeing to a one-year deal with the Rays and Clayton Kershaw signing a seven-year deal with the Dodgers is proof that MLB’s economy is in great shape.