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TAMPA, Fla. — The baseball spring is a time of great anticipation, especially for the rookies, and this year there are six of them in particular who are being counted on for various reasons to not only make the grade but to have a significant impact on their teams’ seasons.

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw and Miguel Cabrera have résumés few other baseball players have ever matched. Both are former MVPs and future first-ballot Hall of Famers. Kershaw has three Cy Young Awards. Cabrera has won a Triple Crown and surpassed both 500 home runs and 3,000 hits for his…

PHOENIX — Clayton Kershaw will not pitch in the World Baseball Classic after all.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Throughout the second half of last season, Joc Pederson routinely took pregame ground balls at first. But Giants manager Gabe Kapler downplayed Pederson’s work on the infield dirt, and nothing ever came of it.

PHOENIX — The Dodgers are still expecting Clayton Kershaw to play in next month’s World Baseball Classic for Team USA.

As she prepares to draft in an experts league, Jen Piacenti examines how the first round might go.

Roberts made the comments after a new book alleged that the team engaged in sign-stealing in 2018.

PHOENIX — Dave Roberts hasn’t yet read “Winning Fixes Everything,” Evan Drellich’s wide-ranging book released this week that detailed the Houston Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scandal.

Exactly four months removed from their calamitous elimination in last year's postseason, the Dodgers will begin a new trek that they hope will end differently come this October.