Jon Lester’s defensive skills have been well-documented. Last year, he ended a streak of 66 straight games in which he did not throw to first by doing so, but he overthrew Anthony Rizzo for an error on the play. How often does the Cubs pitcher work on his defense?

The Padres have arrived at the time of Spring Training when the daily fundamental drills are reaching the point of being a little mundane.

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Royals right-hander Ian Kennedy’s second outing this spring was an improvement off the first, he said. Kennedy gave up two hits and one run over three innings. He retired the last five batters he faced in the Royals’ 9-2 win over the White Sox on Thursday. He threw 52 pitches, 31 for strikes.

The White Sox turned a triple play during the fifth inning of Thursday’s split-squad Cactus League game against the Royals at Camelback Ranch.

Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman hopes he is able to play in an exhibition game within the next 10 days. The team is simply taking it slowly with Zimmerman, who missed more than a month last year because of plantar fasciitis in his left foot.

Shelby Miller gave up just one run over three innings against the Angels in Thursday’s 5-3 D-backs win, but the right-hander knows he still has much work to do before Spring Training is over. In his first outing, last weekend against the Dodgers, Miller focused on throwing his curveball, and he did that again on Thursday while also adding a couple of other things to his to-do list for his next outing.

Looking at Jose Altuve now, you can understand why he was unheralded for so long. The Houston Astros second baseman stands at 5-foot-6 and weighs 165 pounds … at 25 years old.

The Royals erupted for seven runs in the seventh inning, turning a tight contest with the White Sox into a 9-2 victory at Camelback Ranch on Thursday afternoon. But two individual moments overshadowed that one frame — an inside-the-park homer by Drew Butera and the White Sox turning a triple play.

Fans of the Blue Jays may need to get accustomed to success after breaking a decades-long playoff drought last season.

When Bryce Harper says that baseball needs to give young guys like him more room to be themselves, he is right. 100 percent.

The wind was blowing out to left field — a right-handed batter’s dream — and Jordan Zimmermann took the brunt of it in the Tigers’ 6-6 tie with the Phillies on Thursday.

Having Mark Teixeira hobbling around on crutches arguably hurt the Yankees’ late-season chances more than any other injury, but it would be a mistake to discount the significance of deleting Nathan Eovaldi from the starting rotation. Eovaldi was not able to pitch after Sept. 5 due to right elbow inflammation, and the right-hander finally returned to game action Thursday, hurling two perfect innings.

In terms of pure, unfiltered stuff, few in baseball can challenge Noah Syndergaard. He knows it. The Mets know it. And with all due respect to Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom and Steven Matz, it’s that type of skill set that gives Syndergaard the rarest sort of potential.

Over the past five months, the Orioles’ projected lineup transformed from one with a number of vacancies to one of the more fearsome in the Majors.

Mets shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera left Thursday’s game against the Cardinals with a sore left knee. He departed Tradition Field for an MRI during the game, but didn’t believe the injury was serious.

Jose Bautista completely disagrees with the controversial remarks that Goose Gossage made Thursday morning, but he’s also not about to get into a war of words with the Hall of Fame pitcher.