Coming off an injury-plagued 2015 season, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig is fighting a hamstring injury.

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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 and, hopefully, address any areas of need before the end of camp.

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

The great thing about the baseball season is we know we're in for seven months of surprises. The tough thing about making "bold" predictions is if we actually knew what was going to happen, it wouldn't be a surprise.

Baseball is unpredictable enough that the boldest predictions can sound completely outrageous—and then they can come true. We're not guaranteeing all of these will happen, but we do guarantee that any of them could happen.

Tommy John surgery has become as much a brand name as Band-Aid, Kleenex or Coke. We accept the once-experimental surgery as a surefire remedy to fix a pitcher’s arm.

Maikel Franco has apparently decided on the Kris Bryant route to stardom: hit a whole bunch of dingers in spring training, and then keep right on slugging in the regular season.

A fine choice, indeed. And one that could pay off just as well for Franco as it did for Bryant.

You're ready for the season to begin, and so is Madison Bumgarner.

Oh, he may still have a few kinks to work out in terms of stuff or mechanics. But in a Cactus League start Thursday against the Chicago Cubs, the cantankerous San Francisco Giants left-hander proved he was in midseason umbrage form.

Colorado Rockies pitcher Jon Gray is uncertain for the start of the regular season, as he is currently suffering from an abdominal strain.

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Latest Timetable for Gray's Return

Thursday, March 24

According to Nick Groke of the Denver Post, Gray is encouraged that the ailment isn't particularly serious:

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Mark Appel knows all-too-well the answer to this baseball brainteaser: “Who was the lone player taken before 2015 National League Rookie of the Year Kris Bryant in the 2013 MLB Draft?”

If the Los Angeles Dodgers head toward disaster this season, left-handed starter Scott Kazmir won't be driving the car.

Kazmir is like the guy sitting in the back seat on a long road trip. He has no influence on whether or not you get lost and can only make the ride better by cracking jokes. All he can do is make the Dodgers better.

With Opening Day creeping up on the calendar, teams across Major League Baseball are getting close to resolving one of very few things that matter in spring training: position battles.

But rather than wait for official answers, we're going to pretend like we know everything and predict what the answers will be.

We have our eyes on 10 of the spring's most hotly contested position battles. These are the battles where there's not only an important position at stake but also more than one worthy contestant in the running.