As Spring training draws to a close, Cubs fans and players have to say goodbye to their Cactus League home since 1997, HoHoKam Park, as well as George Kiefer, the park’s organist since 2005.

Major League Baseball clubs are about to break camp at Spring Training, and it will mean something special for fans between now and Opening Day.

Manager Joe Maddon believes strongly that the Rays will regain their postseason swagger with a full season from Evan Longoria and a reloaded pitching staff.

As Mariano Rivera looks ahead to his final Opening Day, the Yankees’ closer said that he does not know what emotions will be flowing through him when the team is announced before the April 1 game against the Red Sox.

The Braves should learn the extent of Jonny Venters’ elbow injury next Wednesday, when he is scheduled to meet with Dr. James Andrews.

The Yankees’ Opening Day lineup will be built around Robinson Cano’s powerful bat, but the second baseman said that he does not feel any additional pressure to carry the team.

Kevin Youkilis probably turned some of those boos he heard early this spring into “Youks,” entering play on Thursday leading the Yankees in home runs (five) and RBIs (13).

There’s a reason we pay attention to March exhibitions, and it’s not just because we’re all starved for baseball. There are things to be gleaned, if you know what to look for. So MLB.com decided to take a look at five bits of potentially valuable information from this year’s Spring Training games.

The nine new MLB Fan Cave Dwellers joined Major League Baseball chief marketing officer Jacqueline Parkes in ringing the NASDAQ Opening Bell on Thursday.

Four more wins, the rallying cry goes, at least for fans. That’s how close the Tigers came to a World Series title last year. Mathematically, it makes enough sense. For the players, though, they can’t take the 95 wins they needed to get there for granted.

The goal for the Dodgers under Guggenheim Partners ownership is simple: Win the World Series. Again, and again, and again.

On Wednesday night, second baseman Chris Getz went a perfect 6-for-6 that gives him a .450 average in Cactus League play.

It appears the Giants-Dodgers rivalry, which dates back decades and extends from coast to coast, will decide the fate of the NL West this season. But if the mercurial and somewhat unappreciated division has taught us anything over the past several years, it’s that you never quite know how things will shake out.

As Terry Ryan begins his second season back in the saddle, there have been significant changes in a relatively short amount of time. Whether those changes get the Twins back in contention in 2013 is impossible to know, but there’s little question that Ryan is on his way to working his magic again.

In my 5 1/2; decades of obsessive baseball monitoring, I’ve reached these conclusions about the guys in the booth — Vin Scully is the most entertaining/knowledgeable color or play-by-play man, and Tim McCarver is No. 2, not far behind.

Davenport, Iowa, is a long way from Puerto Rico, but that appears to be where 2012 No. 1 overall Draft pick Carlos Correa will begin the season with the Astros’ Class A team in Quad Cities.

One day after officially being named to the Blue Jays’ starting rotation, left-hander J.A. Happ inked a two-year, $8.9 million extension, superseding his original deal agreed upon in January.