The Los Angeles Dodgers continue to add more brainpower and manpower to their front office, hiring former big leaguers Greg Maddux and Raul Ibanez on Tuesday. 

According to the Dodgers' official Twitter account, Maddux and Ibanez have joined the team as special assistants to the president of baseball operations and baseball operations department.    

Veteran third baseman Juan Uribe remains a free agent with spring training just weeks away.

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Indians Continuing to Show Interest in Uribe

Tuesday, Feb. 2

The Cleveland Indians are reportedly targeting Uribe, according to Buster Olney of ESPN.

New York Mets starting pitcher Zack Wheeler is recovering from the Tommy John surgery he underwent in March 2015.

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Tanking has been a hot-button issue across several major sports leagues in recent years, and Major League Baseball has reportedly joined the fray in its concern that some teams aren't doing everything they can to field a winning product.

On a sunny Monday afternoon in Champaign, Illinois, last June, the Vanderbilt Commodores collapsed into a dogpile after beating the Illinois Fighting Illini to punch their return ticket to the College World Series.

And that was the party just getting started.

Only a few weeks away from the start of spring training, you'd think that MLB clubs were done looking to make trades—at least until an unfortunate injury during the exhibition season forced their hand.

But the rumor mill tells a different story, with some notable names—not All-Stars, mind you, but notable names all the same—the subject of trade chatter and speculation. Whether it be a position player or a pitcher, there seems to be something still available for just about every possible need a team could have.

We are still a few weeks from the start of spring training, and a couple of months away from Opening Day, but it's never too early to take a crack at predicting how all 30 MLB teams' Opening Day rosters will shake out.

Obviously, the inevitable injuries, surprise performances and whatever signings and trades that take place this spring will shake things up between now and the beginning of the regular season.

The NFL wants you to think this is Super Bowl week.

But when you got up Monday morning and turned the calendar to February, that can only mean one thing: Baseball is back! Winter is over. Pitchers and catchers report this month, and so does everybody else.

It's time for spring training, time for the sun and the fun and the "everybody has a chance" cliches.

And time to remind you those cliches aren't true, because not everyone has a chance to win this year. The Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers? They have no chance.

With apologies to Mike Leake, the St. Louis Cardinals didn't get an ace this winter. But they might be getting an ace back, which could be equally huge.

We're talking about Adam Wainwright, one of the best pitchers in baseball when he's right.

The Seattle Mariners have dipped into the Cuban talent pool, signing utility man Dainer Moreira to a minor league contract just three weeks before the team’s minor league minicamp in Peoria, Arizona, per Bob Dutton of the News Tribune.