The Orioles officially launched a new website Wednesday centered on the team's 20th anniversary season at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Rays baseball will once again occupy the airwaves on most nights during the coming summer, as Sun Sports announced Wednesday it will produce and televise 150 Tampa Bay games during the 2012 season, all in high definition.

Which Minor Leaguers should fans get the most excited about seeing on their favorite teams? Here's a look at the top prospects at each position in the National League Central.

Even now, nearly four decades since Willie Mays last stepped on the field as a player, many still call him the greatest all-around talent the game has seen. But it was the end of that career that truly underscored how beloved Mays was in New York.

The Blue Jays are showing signs of following the Rays' enlightened lead in becoming viable competition for the monoliths in Boston and the Bronx.

Baseball bonded Eric Young Sr. with his son during his Major League career and the experience helped Young Jr. decide to forgo a football scholarship and instead sign with the Rockies in 2003.

Monte Irvin will be remembered as much for being one of baseball's true gentlemen as for being a great player. And he was a great player, both during eight seasons in the Negro Leagues and eight more in the Majors, including seven with the New York Giants.

From Ozzie Guillen and Bobby Valentine taking over new clubs in Miami and Boston, to incumbents such as Buck Showalter looking for greater success, several managers will face unique challenges this season.

Bill Hall will have an opportunity to win a job on the Yankees' roster, agreeing Tuesday to a Minor League contract with an invitation to Spring Training.

First baseman Mitch Moreland, who had surgery on his right wrist at the end November, said he is "feeling great" and could be close to full strength going into Spring Training.

The Rangers have hired Shayne Kelley, a longtime college baseball assistant coach and former strength coach in the Royals' Minor League system, to be a Major League staff assistant and the key person in Josh Hamilton's support system.

Cuban sensation Yoenis Cespedes has received a travel visa and is scheduled to meet with the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, according to sources.

Rusty Staub was among the men identified Tuesday as members of the 2012 class of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. No surprise there — except that it has taken this long for him to be recognized and that he has been so recognized having played merely 3 1/2 seasons North of the Border.

The 2013 Caribbean Series will be held in Hermosillo, Mexico, and the teams from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela could have company. Juan Francisco Puello, commissioner of the Caribbean Confederation, is going to Cuba next month to present a proposal to bring that country back to the series.

Before handing over the Dodgers in a court-supervised sale by April 30, owner Frank McCourt on Tuesday handed over a two-year, $19 million contract to National League Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw.

The Korean Baseball Organization officially filed a letter of protest to Major League Baseball on Tuesday, alleging that the Baltimore Orioles broke protocol by signing 17-year-old pitcher Kim Seong-Min.

Albert Pujols, who once encompassed the identity of the Cardinals, leaves behind an undaunted supporting cast-turned-future core. Those in this bunch talk little about who will be missing, though they also avoid promises of immediate and equal replacement production.