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In Major League Baseball, veterans are always a key component to the success of a team, but there are some elder statesman who will have a major role for their respective clubs in 2013.

Guys like Andy Pettitte of the New York Yankees and R.A. Dickey of the Toronto Blue Jays will each be of vital importance to their respective team's pitching staffs. Meanwhile, A.J. Pierzynski will have to make an impact on both sides of the ball for the Texas Rangers.

Some people prefer to play exhibition games and others like to build franchises and control the operational side of things, but any way you slice it, player ratings in sports video games are a fun topic for debate.

There are several great additions to MLB 13 The Show other than the new Postseason Mode.

This game is the latest installment in one of the most successful sports video game franchises around today. The 2012 iteration was quite impressive with its graphics and overall gameplay. It upped the ante, raising the standard for future video game in the genre.

Of all the things that are worth fighting for, numbers aren't a very good one. 

But Major League Baseball fans are fighting over numbers anyway. One army is fighting to advance complicated numbers calculated for geeks by geeks, and the other army is fighting to defend the less complicated numbers handed down by the founding fathers of baseball statistics.

When it comes to fantasy sports, it’s often the decisions made in the later rounds of the draft that make all the difference between playoff contention and a title shot.

Unless you play in a 16-team league, there’s a good chance a handful of quality young bats will be available in the mid-to-late rounds of the draft. When the superstars are off the board, selecting the right players becomes a practice of intuition and value.

Spring training stats don't mean much, but that doesn't mean they aren't exciting to look at.

In spring training, established players are often working on things and rounding into shape rather than going full bore. Early in the spring, the starters are usually only playing a handful of innings before giving way to minor league players and guys fighting for backup jobs. Thus, there's a lot of noise in spring training numbers, and that's before considering the small sample sizes involved.

There aren’t many instances where an 0-for-3 batting performance—even in spring training—creates a positive outlook, but Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols’ preseason debut may be the outlier.

As we move ever closer to Opening Day, the Rangers find themselves in need of a No. 5 starter. Their pursuit of another arm may very well end with the addition of either Kyle Lohse or Rick Porcello.

After the team missed out on Zack Greinke and James Shields this offseason, they were already thinner than they'd hoped in the starting rotation.

Mark Teixeira's first World Baseball Classic is going to be over before it even starts.

That's the latest from FOX Sports' baseball insider Jon Morosi, who is reporting (via Twitter) that the New York Yankees slugger will be removed from the United States' WBC roster due to an injury to his right forearm.

While the on-field product and overall result may be uninspiring for the next several years, the future is undeniably bright for the Chicago Cubs.