Daniel Murphy, Zack Greinke and Jason Heyward will all have ample chances to do damage to their former teams this season.

Free-agent infielder Pedro Alvarez has reached an agreement — pending a physical — to join the Orioles for the 2016 season, according to an industry source.

Major League Baseball’s Diversity Business Summit has been around since 2012, but this year’s event is different. The 2016 summit places an added emphasis on those who have served in the military, a focus that was in full effect Monday.

If you get to know Royals catcher Salvador Perez at all, you’ll find out right away that he loves to have fun. And Perez loves to share that fun via social media perhaps more than any other Royals player.

It was a day of firsts for many Major Leaguers participating in Monday’s slate of Spring Training games. As we inch closer to Opening Day, several players took the initial step toward regaining regular-season form.

The Cardinals are bracing for confirmation that they’ll open the season without starting shortstop Jhonny Peralta after an initial MRI indicated that Peralta suffered a ligament tear in his left thumb.

Giancarlo Stanton is dealing with right knee soreness, and the Marlins three-time All-Star is expected to get a couple of days rest.

If Steve Berry were alive, he and his father, Mike, would be going to every Cubs home Spring Training game together. It was Steve’s dream to someday take his son as well. But Steve died in 2002 at the age of 24, and since then, his dad has been donating his Cubs tickets to fathers and sons and mothers and daughters so they can share the joy of being together at a baseball game.

There is no whining in Pirates baseball. The Bucs had the second-best record in the Majors last season with 98 victories. But it was also the second-best record in the NL Central. This season, again, they will up against the Cardinals, a perennial force, and the Cubs, who appear to have become the flavor of the moment.

Orioles reliever T.J. McFarland was to undergo an X-ray on his left elbow on Monday morning after exiting Sunday’s game early with tenderness in the area.

There are very few things in sports today that are more fun to watch than a Clayton Kershaw curveball.

Rookie hurler Steven Matz will make his spring debut for a split-squad Mets team on Monday at Roger Dean Stadium in a matchup available for streaming live on MLB.TV.

The week ahead promises us another seven days packed with Spring Training exhibition-game action, and being that it’s the second week of March, that means starting pitchers are stretching out and some of the biggest and best of them are finally ready to get the rust out.

That “one more move” that was talked about by White Sox general manager Rick Hahn and executive vice president Ken Williams arrived on Sunday night, with the team signing free-agent outfielder Austin Jackson to a one-year, $5 million deal.

Hisashi Iwakuma made his Cactus League debut on Sunday with two perfect innings in a 7-3 victory over the Rangers as the standout right-hander opened his fifth season with the Mariners in efficient fashion.

Stating his intention to be ready for Opening Day, right-hander Masahiro Tanaka passed his first test of the spring on Sunday afternoon, throwing two scoreless innings and striking out a pair in a 6-5 Grapefruit League loss to the Phillies.

There was never much doubt in Albert Pujols’ mind: Barring any setbacks with his surgically repaired right foot, he’s going to be ready for Opening Day.