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Mike Pelfrey's legendary speech to Wichita State may not give you goosebumps, but it will make you laugh out loud. 

Living up to its purpose, this year's spring training has answered a ton of roster-related questions for the New York Yankees.

The Yankees had three legitimate questions to answer heading into spring camp.

Who are the reserve middle infielders?

Who is the No. 5 starter?

Who is the backup catcher?

Spring training not only serves as training camp for MLB teams, but it provides general managers and coaching staffs the chance to evaluate their overall rosters, taking note of what areas of weakness—if any—need to be addressed.

With the regular season nearly upon us, time is running out for teams to address those needs, and some may be left considering in-house options that, while not ideal solutions for what ails their roster, are the best available options at the moment.

Bleacher Report didn't ask for my opinion on the 2014 Fantasy Baseball Rankings, but my readers did. So, here they are by position.

This slideshow outlines the rankings I used to select my 2014 Tout Wars team in New York City on Saturday, March 22 at the Sirius/XM studio.

In the process of ranking the top 50 MLB players heading into the 2014 regular season, there are a ton of ridiculously talented ballplayers who were left off the list. After all, on any given day during the season, there are 750 active players spread across the league.

We don't know who'll be MLB's next commissioner after Bud Selig just yet. We just know said commissioner will take office in January 2015, and that he or she will have a laundry list of priorities for action or consideration.

I'd hereby like to propose one for the consideration pile: the death of spring training as we know it.

Over the past several weeks, the 2014 fantasy baseball rankings have been rolling out here at Bleacher Report, culminating in the latest, most up-to-date Big Board, which covers the top 150 players heading into the 2014 season.

The Dodgers picked up 2014 right where last season left off—dashing the rival Diamondbacks' hopes and dreams on their home field. Only this time, the "home field" was in front of thousands of Australian fans at Sydney Cricket Ground. 

The team St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny plans to take north to Cincinnati for Opening Day is almost set.

Spring training is almost done, and this means that roster cuts and adjustments have either been made or need to be made in order to come up with the best possible 25-man roster for Opening Day.

This time of year can be very rewarding for those who make the Opening Day roster or very disappointing for those who are either optioned to the minor leagues or released.

Here are three big winners and three big losers for the New York Mets' spring training this year.