It’s hard not to notice the T-shirt Andrew McCutchen has been wearing lately around the Pirate City complex. It carries not only a message, but also a reminder.

The Cubs added another option for the bullpen, signing left-handed pitcher Manny Parra to a Minor League contract. Parra, 33, who was in camp Monday, posted a 3.90 ERA in 40 games last season with the Reds.

The White Sox added some middle-infield depth to the roster on Monday, signing veteran shortstop Jimmy Rollins to a Minor League deal that includes an invitation to big league camp.

Masahiro Tanaka has said that he is responding well following offseason surgery to remove a bone spur in his pitching elbow, and in an even better sign for the Yankees, he doesn’t even think about his partially torn ulnar collateral ligament anymore.

The best player moves pay dividends for years, long after the terms have been fulfilled and the final check issued. The White Sox addition of Jimmy Rollins could be one of those moves.

Joe Maddon remembers when players would sit around the clubhouse with a bucket of long necks to talk about the game. These days, they’re at the juice bar. And this spring, the Cubs players are finding out just how knowledgeable new outfielder Jason Heyward is.

One of the many early arrivals to Reds camp, center fielder Billy Hamilton believes all is well with his surgically repaired right shoulder.

Padres first baseman Wil Myers’ goal for the 2016 season is being healthy for the entire year, something he hasn’t been able to do since his American League Rookie of the Year Award-winning campaign for the Rays in ’13.

Prince Fielder is back in camp with the Rangers, having arrived on Monday two days before the first official full-squad workout. He arrived in a different state of mind than he did a year ago, and he is still prepared to get most of his work at designated hitter.

Aaron Judge has moved into the high-rent district of the Yankees’ clubhouse, and it is no accident. Carlos Beltran requested that the top prospect locker next to his corner space this spring, perhaps seeing his heir apparent in right field.

Kevin Kiermaier wants to be on the field every day. If one didn’t already know that about the Rays’ center fielder, he made his intentions clear on Monday when he reported to Spring Training.

With a new manager and coaching staff, there are some subtle changes at Mariners camp this spring. And one is having catchers talking and focusing more on their pitch-framing skills.

Ineffective with the Angels in 2013, released the next spring and foundering in the Minor Leagues for Oakland, Joe Blanton retired to seemingly end a career that included a couple of nondescript months with the Dodgers in 2012. But after sitting out most of 2014, he got the pitching itch and was reinvented last year as an effective reliever. Which brings him back to the Dodgers, who signed him to a one-year, $4 million deal.

As Aroldis Chapman continues to await word from Major League Baseball regarding potential discipline in connection with a domestic-violence incident, the Yankees’ closer received what general manager Brian Cashman called an “excused absence” from Spring Training camp on Monday.

Dustin Pedroia could have arrived to Spring Training a couple of weeks ago with some of his young, eager teammates, but the second baseman explained his reasoning for picking Monday as his first day in typically humorous fashion.

Mutt Mantle was a forward thinker, years ahead of his time. In his drive to keep his son Mickey out of the blasted mines, the Oklahoman taught him to switch-hit as soon as the kid was old enough to pick up a bat.

At the end of David Ortiz’s first Spring Training workout of his final Major League season, the slugger hopped into a golf cart with fellow Red Sox legends Jim Rice and Luis Tiant.