The Rockies’ search for pitching goes deeper than offering star left fielder Carlos Gonzalez to potential takers, although he remains prime bait.

The holiday spirit of giving is in full force with the news that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

The Dodgers are checking in on a young experienced pitcher as a possible addition to their incomplete starting rotation, reportedly inquiring on Rays right-hander Jake Odorizzi, according to Jon Heyman.

In recent days, the Angels have signed two low-profile outfielders — Craig Gentry and Daniel Nava — who could share their left field position in a platoon arrangement.

As Chipper Jones has watched the Braves rebuild from afar, he has gained a sense that the organization has positioned itself to at least have an opportunity to enjoy the kind of long-standing success that he experienced while spending the entirety of his professional career with Atlanta.

The Angels claimed right-hander A.J. Achter off waivers from the Phillies on Thursday.

The Mets’ pitch to free agents these days is a simple one, the type of marketing strategy they have been hoping to use for years: Come to Queens to join a winning team. With shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, that line worked.

In an article Tuesday on outsports.com, Los Angeles Dodgers vice president of marketing and broadcasting Erik Braverman came out to the baseball world, becoming the highest-ranking openly gay executive in Major League Baseball. For Braverman, who came out to his parents over two decades ago at the age of 23 and has been openly gay in his personal life since, the time was right.

The Marlins have been eerily quiet on the trade and free-agent fronts this offseason, and team president David Samson is perfectly fine with that, because the club is not looking to force anything to acquire starting pitching.

Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’ preeminent all-everything left-handed pitcher, was playing catch the other day with Jose Cruz behind a hotel in Havana — just a little limbering-up workout.

With news that the tentative deal between the Dodgers and right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma has hit a potential snag, according to a baseball source, eyes returned Thursday to the starting pitching free-agent market.

The Dodgers don’t intend to take a step back in 2016. On this, they’ve been clear, and that won’t change even if Hisashi Iwakuma never throws a pitch for them. Onward, etc.

The Twins announced 22 players on Minor League contracts will be invited to Major League Spring Training, including prospects Jose Berrios, Nick Burdi, Jake Reed, Stuart Turner and Engelb Vielma.

The Dodgers have backed away from a tentative agreement with free-agent starting pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma, presumably because of health concerns, but haven’t completely closed the door to signing him, according to a baseball source.

Having had some time to digest another runner-up finish in their free-agent foray, general manager John Mozeliak said on Wednesday that the Cardinals are moving on from their missed pursuit of Jason Heyward by eyeing not another outfield addition, but rather some for their pitching staff.

Clayton Kershaw is, admittedly, the outsider on MLB’s goodwill tour through Cuba. But he’s fit right in, all while coming to a greater understanding of baseball’s importance in Cuban culture.

It is difficult to overstate how good 23-year-old Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez can become. This is precisely why the idea of trading him still doesn’t seem like such a terrific plan for Miami.