Whether it’s a back field or the big field inside Roger Dean Stadium, Jose Fernandez is eager to pitch. The Marlins’ ace gets his first chance on Wednesday morning in an intrasquad game.

If there was a sign hanging around Byung Ho Park’s neck, it would say “Handle With Care.” That’s not because the Twins’ Korean import is especially needy but because of the massive impact he could have for a team already rich in homegrown talent.

Armed with 23 years of stats and a detailed study of the last three years, the Rockies announced Tuesday that they have increased the height of the fences in two locations at Coors Field.

They’re playing games — real, live games with people in the stands and everything — in the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues this week. It’s an exciting time for teams and fans alike. But you know who’s not excited? The remaining free agents who firmly expected to have jobs by now.

The MLBPipeline.com staff ranked the top 10 systems in the game by considering which organizations have an abundance of elite-level prospect talent as well as depth, in terms of future big leaguers up and down the system.

Orioles pitcher Chris Tillman threw a 25-pitch bullpen session with no hip pain on Tuesday, and the right-hander said he ‘felt great’ afterward.

More than 800,000 pitches — about 289 per game — are projected to be streamed live on MLB.TV in 2016. Severino Gonzalez of the Phillies threw the first one today, and someone will fire the final one to clinch the 112th World Series this fall. Are you ready?

Baseball is back. You’ve been waiting a while to hear those three words, haven’t you? Sure you have –122 days to be exact.

Mets outfielder Curtis Granderson did not participate in regular workouts Monday due to a right eye issue that the team believes is conjunctivitis. Shortly after Granderson arrived at the team’s complex early Monday morning, the Mets sent him to a doctor, who essentially confirmed that diagnosis — though Granderson said his eye began feeling better so quickly that no one is entirely sure.

National League Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta will be the Cubs’ Opening Day starter April 3 against the Angels in Anaheim.

After a week of unbelievable cars, it’s a throwback.

Many of this winter’s free agents who seemed ticketed for multiyear contracts wound up with deals that will allow them to test free agency again after the 2016 season.

Maybe they’ll just play again?

Twenty years ago, Mets pitching prospects Bill Pulsipher, Jason Isringhausen and Paul Wilson were pictured on the covers of two national publications and were the featured faces in the late March baseball sections published by three New York dailies.

It’s the dawn of a new season, so naturally the baseball world is all smiles and laughter. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the first week of Brewers camp, it’s that not all smiles and laughs are created equal.