The Orioles will interview former Boston Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette for their GM/president vacancy on Friday in Baltimore.

The Cubs will have someone in Venezuela to watch Carlos Zambrano on Sunday, when the right-hander makes his first start for Caribes of the Venezuelan Winter League.

The Rangers are undertaking major renovations to the Vandergriff Plaza area of center field at the Ballpark in Arlington that will include a new Batter's Eye Club and a restaurant/sports bar.

Don't expect the Tigers to move quickly on the free-agent market. It's not that they don't know what they need. It's the challenge of going about finding it in this market.

According to a Major League source, the Braves have already approached some teams about the possibility of trading Jair Jurrjens or Martin Prado.

Buzzie Bavasi, Ken Boyer, Charlie Finley, Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva, Allie Reynolds, Ron Santo and Luis Tiant are candidates for Golden Era Committee consideration for Hall of Fame election for the class of 2012.

Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp took time out from an offseason of collecting awards Thursday to talk about some really big awards he still might collect.

The long-lost Dauvray Cup, commissioned in 1887, was a player's dream come true then, just as the Commissioner's Trophy is now for Yadier Molina and his Cardinals teammates.

As expected, the MLB All-Stars won Game 2 of the 2011 Taiwan All-Star Series in Taichung Intercontinental Stadium, but it didn't come easy. They eked out a 5-3 victory over the Chinese Taipei national team that was in question for the better part of the game.

As Canada's lone big league team, the Blue Jays have a national appeal, and they've used it to help build up the country's amateur program.

Giants third-base coach Tim Flannery will perform with his band Wednesday night at Yoshi's San Francisco in a benefit concert for Brian Stow, who was beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot on March 31 and sustained a serious brain injury.

Major League Baseball's prestigious Umpire Camp is set to kick off from the Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif., next week, with over 100 campers slated to participate and six Major League umpires slated to educate.

The Brewers' new academy in the Dominican Republic is open for business. The Brewers have not announced the terms of their lease, calling it only a "long-term partnership."

Expect the unexpected. If there's anything recent offseasons have taught us, it is precisely that. That isn't only applicable to free-agent signings. It also can be said of trades.

Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson will pick up some hardware when they return from their trip to Taiwan, having been announced on Wednesday as winners of American League Silver Slugger Awards at their respective positions.

A year after three free agents signed deals for more than $100 million, a new group of candidates for big money, headlined by Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder and Jose Reyes, steps up to the plate this year. How many will break that barrier or which teams will turn heads with what they acquire, all that remains to be seen.

By reinstating six players from the 60-day DL on Wednesday, the A's were forced to designate right-hander Trystan Magnuson for assignment.