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Whether acquired as a free agent or via trade, the biggest acquisitions in baseball this past offseason all arrived in spring training with big expectations. Some have lived up to the hype. Others, well, let's just say they wish we were grading on a curve.

For our red pen spares nobody's feelings.

The conversation began with Jorge Mateo, the 20-year-old shortstop Baseball America ranked as the best prospect in the New York Yankees' farm system.

"His speed is incredible, and he's good defensively," a veteran scout who follows the Yankees system said. "But you know, it feels like everyone has one. Right now, we might have the best group of young shortstops ever."

You know, he might be right.

Spring training is often a time for overreaction.

On-field results don't always match expectations as players look to shake off the rust and work on refining their game for the season ahead.

If a team struggles to get into the win column or a player gets off to a noticeably awful start, it doesn't necessarily mean they are doomed—but it does raise a few red flags.

We have highlighted 10 areas of concern teams are facing this spring and given our take on whether the team and its respective fanbase should be patient or panic.

Nothing counts and everything counts—it's the annual paradox of spring.

On the one hand, yes, these are mere exhibition contests. The scores don't matter, and the performances of individual players should be taken with enough grains of salt to satisfy Jimmy Buffett's lifetime margarita needs.

This is about stretching hammies, shaking off the cobwebs and enjoying the Florida and Arizona sunshine as much as anything.

Matt Williams went from Manager of the Year to jettisoned ex-skipper of the Washington Nationals in the span of just a year. 

That’s how disappointing last season was for the team that at this time last year was the unanimous World Series favorite, per Odds Shark.   

By Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred may have wanted to wash Bryce Harper’s mouth out with soap. Or, at least, rub it down with pine tar.

Legendary Major League Baseball reliever Goose Gossage is joining the chorus of people who believe bat flips and analytics are evil and have no place in the sport. 

Washington Nationals slugger Bryce Harper is one of the flashiest and most exciting players in Major League Baseball, and the reigning National League MVP is hopeful his style will become more commonplace.

Nobody is having more fun during this year's spring training than the Chicago Cubs.

Of course, some of that fun comes at the expense of certain people. On Wednesday, it was Tim Buss, the Cubs' strength and conditioning coordinator, who found himself subjected to a little hazing.