The Toronto Blue Jays announced on Saturday they have hired Eric Wedge as the team's new player development adviser. 

Sure, MLB fans are still waiting for pitchers and catchers to report to spring training, but it's never too early to start preparing for the upcoming fantasy baseball season.

Unfortunately, that preparation is not starting on a positive note. We're taking a look at a downside of fantasy baseball—regression—and the players coming off fantastic 2015 campaigns that are most likely to fall short of matching those spectacular numbers.

Spring training can get kind of boring, right?

The game’s best pitchers are held back, and its best position players don’t often take the games seriously. It’s more like a televised health club than competitive athletics.

I get it, of course. After months off, position players are just looking to get a feel for their swings and timing in the field. The best pitchers are held back because there’s no worse feeling than watching an ace hurt his arm in spring training.

The Chicago Cubs have re-signed ace Jake Arrieta to a one-year, $10.7 million deal, per the Associated Press (via ESPN.com). Jon Heyman of MLB Network confirmed the news. 

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Lou Piniella led the Cincinnati Reds to glory in 1990 as the manager during the team’s last World Series championship. The franchise is reportedly bringing him back in 2016, albeit in a different fashion.

The Reds announced the news on Twitter:

With unbridled optimism running rampant among the fanbases of all 30 MLB teams, it's relatively easy to spin most offseason moves in a positive light.

For contenders, it's not difficult to view a few key veteran additions as the missing pieces to bridge the gap to World Series appearances.

For rebuilding clubs, prospect additions immediately become the next big thing for the organization as the fanbase keeps an eye on the future and brighter days ahead.

However, sometimes a deal just looks like a mistake.

The rough MLB winter rolls on for Dexter Fowler, Ian Desmond and Yovani Gallardo.

There's just one week to go before spring training camps fire up around Arizona and Florida, and those three guys headline a free-agent market that is unusually deep for the first week of February.

The big question in the latest round of hot questions is trying to pinpoint where Fowler, Desmond and Gallardo, who are all lugging around draft-pick compensation, will end up signing.

Howie Kendrick spent 2015 with the Los Angeles Dodgers, slashing .295/.336/.409 with nine home runs and 54 RBI, then hit the free-agent market for the first time in his 10-year career.

The Arizona Diamondbacks are showing interest in free-agent relief pitcher Tyler Clippard. The 30-year-old right-hander split the 2015 season between the New York Mets and Oakland Athletics, registering 19 saves while striking out 64 batters and walking 31 in 71 innings pitched.

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