From honoring longtime broadcaster Vin Scully and celebrating Jackie Robinson Day, it has been an eventful week at Dodger Stadium.

Rockies rookie right-handed pitcher Jon Gray plans to throw a side session Tuesday and hopes to be cleared to make his regular-season debut Friday night against the Dodgers.

MLBPipeline.com’s Prospect Team of the Week honors the best performances from the previous seven days. Any player currently on an organization Top 30 Prospects list on our Prospect Watch is eligible, including big leaguers. Welcome to MLBPipeline’s inaugural Prospect Team of the Week for 2016. We’re bending our rules slightly for this first edition and considering the entire season to date rather than the last seven days.

When Rafael Ortega signed his first professional contract with the Rockies, the local newspaper in Venezuela ran his picture. It showed a 16-year-old Ortega, with his glove positioned just below his face while standing on top of a mound.

With results comes confidence, and right-hander Jesse Hahn has discovered both in a hurry during an unexpected stay in the Minor Leagues. The 26-year-old Hahn, demoted to Triple-A Nashville during the final week of exhibition play, has responded to the surprising move with a pair of excellent outings; his ERA has yet to budge from zero after two starts with the Sounds.

Twins third baseman Trevor Plouffe was held out of the lineup on Monday, and is expected to be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right intercostal muscle on Tuesday.

Orlando Arcia is the Brewers’ top prospect and the sixth-best prospect in baseball, according to MLBPipeline.com. But he’s also a typical kid brother, so when Oswaldo Arcia hit a walk-off single in the 12th inning for the Twins on Sunday, Orlando could not help but pick up his cellphone to compose a tongue-in-cheek text.

The date of April 18 holds special significance in White Sox lore. Mark Buehrle threw a no-hitter against the Rangers on a cold night at U.S. Cellular Field on this day in 2007.

Perhaps after this latest throwing session, Reds pitcher Anthony DeSclafani will finally be able to go out on a Minor League rehab assignment. DeSclafani, who is on the disabled list with a left oblique strain, threw two innings and 40 pitches Monday in a simulated game against Reds hitters.

Tigers third baseman Nick Castellanos doesn’t make much of it yet.
“I’m seeing the ball well,” he said after a three-hit, four-RBI game in Pittsburgh last Thursday continued his hot start. Manager Brad Ausmus believes it’s neither a revelation nor a confidence boost.

Greg Mahle, Mike Morin, Jose Alvarez and Fernando Salas. The Angels’ ever-critical, continually elusive seventh-inning role is a combination of four relievers striving to keep leads intact for Joe Smith and Huston Street.

The card games, the video study and the preparation of equipment in the Rockies’ clubhouse slowed to a near halt as third baseman Nolan Arenado carried the Rockies’ banner Monday.

Jose Abreu did not provide his answers in English when asked pregame Monday about the struggling White Sox offense. But by looking at the calm, upbeat facial expression of the team’s top force, even without the interpretation from Spanish, it was pretty easy to understand that Abreu’s replies were not filled with panic.

The Cardinals activated Ruben Tejada from the DL after the 26-year-old infielder went 3-for-9 in three Minor League rehab games at Double-A. His return bumped infielder Greg Garcia down to Triple-A, but it does not immediately displace Aledmys Diaz from the lineup.

J.A. Happ allowed just one run in seven-plus innings and the Blue Jays rallied with four runs in the eighth before holding on for a 4-3 victory over the Red Sox on Patriots’ Day at Fenway Park.

Employees from MLB Advanced Media, MLB Network and the Office of the Commissioner spent Saturday afternoon participating in MLB’s “New York Cares Day” employee volunteer event.

A week after their baby son Jaxon’s birth, Mets starter Jacob deGrom and wife Stacey brought him home from the hospital Monday for the first time. The couple had been dealing with complications regarding Jaxon’s birth, resulting in deGrom’s placement on MLB’s family-emergency list.