Aside from Logan Morrison, the Marlins should be relatively healthy when Spring Training gets under way.

Lyle Spencer revisits the headline-stealing swaps from the winter following the 2009 season, now that we’ve had a three-year sample size too add perspective.

Signups are under way MLB.TV packages, marking the 11th year for the most prolific live video subscription service. This launch of “Baseball Everywhere” will let you watch every live out-of-market regular-season game, plus more than 150 live Spring Training games over a wide range of platforms and devices.

The Caribbean Series is a stage where ex-Major Leaguers, holding onto baseball dreams by the skin of their teeth, remind us that there are other ways to make a living playing this game. And this year, Fernando Tatis and Karim Garcia help personify that.

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said on Monday that he expects the team to stand behind Alex Rodriguez, who is alleged to have purchased performance-enhancing drugs over the last four years from a now-defunct Miami health clinic.

The Yankees are waiting until they arrive in camp to decide if Brett Gardner or Curtis Granderson will be their best option in center field.

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is preparing for a rare on-time arrival at Spring Training this year.

The Astros will once again play host to the Urban Invitational, a college baseball tournament at Minute Maid Park that features four historically black colleges and universities — Alabama State, Southern, Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern.

Monday’s acquisition of three promising young players in exchange for veteran infielder Jed Lowrie was the latest move in what has been an impressive 14 months of restocking the Astros system for general manager Jeff Luhnow.

Royals prospect and Puerto Rico native Rey Navarro picked a good time to come alive in this Caribbean Series. At Estadio Sonora on Monday, with his team one loss away from being mathematically eliminated and facing an undefeated Dominican Republic powerhouse, the young infielder homered, had two hits, drove in four runs and finished as the hero.

The A’s added another new piece to their infield on Monday, acquiring Jed Lowrie and right-handed pitcher Fernando Rodriguez from the Astros for first baseman Chris Carter, right-hander Brad Peacock and Minor League catcher Max Stassi.

Hampered by a series of shoulder injuries, former National League Cy Young Award winner and D-backs ace Brandon Webb has decided to officially retire from baseball.

The Tigers announced Monday they’ve avoided arbitration with pitcher Max Scherzer. The club signed Scherzer to a one-year $6.725 deal for 2013 according to CBSSports.com’s Jon Heyman.

While pitching in the Caribbean Series for his native Mexico the last couple of years, Luis Ayala has been on the mend, still unsigned and hoping to use this stage to secure a Major League job and keep his career in the United States afloat. Now, thanks to that club option the Orioles picked up this offseason, he can breathe a little easier.

Braves employees packed equipment, uniforms and such in a truck at Turner Field on Monday and sent it on its way to the club’s complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — a sure sign that Spring Training is upon us.

The Giants will welcome 35 pitchers to camp when batterymates report to Scottsdale, Ariz., on Feb. 12. Given the pitching staff’s quality and stability, this seems like an excessively large contingent, but it’s in large part due to the World Baseball Classic.

Rene Lachemann will provide the perfect amount of experience on Walt Weiss’ first-year Colorado staff as he enters his 50th season in a professional baseball uniform.