“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same?”

Gift Ngoepe hopes to proudly represent his home country of South Africa in the Majors soon. In the meantime, the Pirates’ shortstop will continue to do so in the World Baseball Classic.

One of general manager Dayton Moore’s first priorities when he joined the Royals in 2006 was to build a shutdown bullpen. For more than four years, right-hander Joakim Soria was the man who protected those leads.

The St. Louis Cardinals must be absolutely thrilled that some of us have already conceded the National League Central to the Chicago Cubs. The Cardinals? They’re playing for second place — or third. You can look it up.

This is the fourth installment in a six-part Around the Horn series that will take a position-by-position look at the Cardinals’ projected starters and backup options heading into Spring Training. After previously looking at the club’s catching depth, corner infield and middle infield options, let’s examine the outfield choices next.

Veteran outfielder Carlos Quentin is coming out of retirement and signing a Minor League deal with an invitation to Spring Training with the Twins, the team announced Tuesday.

The Detroit Police Athletic League, a non-profit organization working to create safe and supportive places for children to play, is expected to announce Tuesday that it has the funding to move forward with a new youth sports facility at the old Tiger Stadium site at Michigan and Trumbull.

“He’s learned how to throw junk.”

Ever since Byron Buxton started tearing up the low Class A Midwest League and emerging as baseball’s best prospect in 2013, the Twins center fielder started drawing comparisons to Mike Trout. Trout had done the same three seasons earlier, earning parallels to Mickey Mantle. Veteran scouts said Trout had the best combination of tools they had seen in years. Now they’re saying that Buxton has the best combo since Trout.

Today is Groundhog Day, the day we let a rodent forecast the weather, because — let’s face it — the forecasts that come from human beings are already imprecise as it is.

Proving you don’t actually need a car in L.A.

Beyond just the thought of a rodent sticking its head out of the ground, a reference to “groundhog day” also presents the opportunity to take mulligans until you get something right. With that in mind, we asked general managers from around the Majors to reflect on the one trade they have made that they would most like to “do over.”

The brown is back.

In honor of MLB Network’s one-hour documentary “Holy Cow! The Story of Harry Caray,” which premieres at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday as part of the MLB Network Presents series, here’s a ranking of the seven best Harry Caray impressions, from the baseball and non-baseball worlds.

Seven teams are nearing the end of their first offseason under new leadership, and most have been quite active.

Venezuela’s Tigres de Aragua scored twice on a triple by Jose Martinez in the bottom of the second inning, and former Major League pitcher Freddy Garcia shut down Puerto Rico’s offense to pave the way for a 2-1 victory against the Cangrejeros de Santurce in the first game of the Caribbean Series on Monday afternoon at Estadio Quisqueya Marichal.