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For a team that was struggling for pitching depth about a week ago, the Seattle Mariners seem to be intent on having as many options as possible heading into the 2013 season.

Spring training is all about competition, and there will be no better competition to watch in Mets camp than in the outfield.

Lucas Duda, who was sent down to AAA last year because of his struggles at the plate, is the only outfielder to secure a starting job. But even his role is unclear—is he the full-time starter in left, or will he platoon with a right-handed bat?

It might be time for the Boston Red Sox and team president Larry Lucchino to go their separate ways.

Lucchino can't resist being a lawyer. Deny, deny, deny.

When spring training begins next week, teams will have dozens of players to get a good look at in the weeks to come before the season arrives.

All the while, they'll have a magic number in mind: 25. They need to take a couple dozen and somehow, some way cut it down to 25.

This is going to involve saying "thanks, but no thanks" to the majority of the non-roster invitees they've invited along for the ride. For non-roster invitees, spring training may as well be one great big Thunderdome: Many will enter, few will leave.

Tim Lincecum met with the media Friday for the first time this offseason and he sounds like a man on a mission. Lincecum is going to bounce back in a big way for the San Francisco Giants in 2013. 

With pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training in a matter of days, I’ve spent the past week breaking down each team’s list of non-roster invitees—more specifically, the top prospects that have been invited to big league camp.

If baseball fans were to pen a screenplay about Scott Boras, baseball's most infamous agent, the result would surely be a horror film.

It would open with ominous music playing over a wide shot of a haunted house. Then Boras would be shown scowling on a throne of skulls, or perhaps regenerating in one of the globe things that Darth Vader had in The Empire Strikes Back. Then he would go and do things that villains do.

Though the offseason still has a few days remaining before pitchers and catchers descend on Florida and Arizona, most teams have already completed the majority of their winter shopping. Save a couple of key free agents still searching for work, rosters have been shaped for what should be an interesting season in the National League East.

Mr. October’s most famous pinstripes are going on the auction block.

As first reported by Sports Collectors Daily, the jersey Reggie Jackson was wearing October 18, 1977, when he hit three homers in Game 6 of the World Series will be up for auction this spring. SCP Auctions will offer Jackson's size 44 No. 44 home white button-down in its catalog auction in April.

Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in just a few short days, and it's time for any rotation battles to be decided for all 30 major league clubs.

The New York Yankees have four of their five spots locked down. CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Andy Pettitte and Phil Hughes will take the top four spots (in an order that's yet to be determined).

Competing for the No. 5 spot will be sophomore David Phelps and third-year pitcher Ivan Nova.