With 13 players on the IL — 13!  — Yankees backups rising to occasion  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — A month ago, Clint Frazier couldn't keep his batting average above the Mendoza line.  —  Now?  It's a far different story.  —  As the New York Yankees wrapped up spring training in March …

Cards notebook: Ponce de Leon goes tonight, Wacha expected back for next Tuesday's start  —  Cardinals pitcher Michael Wacha was placed on the 10-day injured list Monday because of a left knee patellar tendinitis condition surfacing from a between-starts workout.

MLB Headlines  —  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) The Athletics found their winning formula again: Grab an early lead, the starters keep them in the game, and then allow the deep bullpen to handle the rest.  —  Stephen Piscotty homered and drove in three runs to back Chris Bassitt's winning season debut …

MRI on deGrom's elbow comes back clean  —  NEW YORK — New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom remains on track to start Friday night after an MRI on his right elbow showed no damage.  —  New York general manager Brodie Van Wagenen said the NL Cy Young Award winner had a test Monday morning that came back clean.

Real or not?  The costly luxury of Bryce Harper's antics  —  NEW YORK — Let's put it this way: Nobody looks better when he's getting ejected from a game than Bryce Harper: … Harper was ejected for the 12th time in his career in the Phillies' 5-1 loss to the Mets on Monday …

Nicholas Castellanos has a new agent.  How that impacts his future in Detroit  —  BOSTON — It wasn't a decision Nicholas Castellanos made lightly, ranking as one of the toughest two of his life.  But after making decisions in the best interests of others for who knows how long, this decision was going to be his.

Yankees had little choice but to let Gio Gonzalez walk  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Gio Gonzalez was signed to a minor league contract late in spring training to provide rotation insurance.  —  However, with no openings in a unit that has performed very well and removed some of the sting of losing …

Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr. and the rise of a Padres powerhouse  —  SAN DIEGO — A quarter-mile north of center field, in a 19th-century building adorned by a faded green awning and two wooden wagon wheels, sits a charmingly antiquated bar named Tivoli.

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde relishes ‘homecoming’ with White Sox at Camden Yards  —  The Baltimore Sun  —  Although the Orioles are a week away from a visit to Chicago, the sight of the White Sox gives manager Brandon Hyde a sense of home.  —  A White Sox farmhand from 1997 to 2000, Hyde retains familiarity with the organization.

One trade idea that would fix Cubs' bullpen problem  —  CHICAGO — Weekend news of Chicago Cubs closer Brandon Morrow's setback in his recovery from offseason minor elbow surgery can't come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the right-hander's career.  —  In fact, there aren't any injuries …

Gausman scheduled to start for Braves at Reds  —  Atlanta Braves (11-10, third in the NL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds (8-13, fifth in the NL Central)  —  PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Kevin Gausman (1-1, 2.75 ERA, .76 WHIP, 22 strikeouts) Reds: Sonny Gray (1-3, 2.79 ERA, .88 WHIP, 22 strikeouts)

Atlanta Braves land in top 5 of Grapefruit League total attendance in final spring training at Disney  —  The MLB Spring Training game of the New York Mets at Atlanta Braves in Disney's Champion Stadium at ESPN Wide World of Sports on Saturday, March 23, 2019.  It is the final Braves spring training game at the stadium.

Lofty comparisons for Fried: Kershaw, Hamels, Snell  —  Max Fried is creating quite the buzz around Major League Baseball these days.  —  The Braves' 25-year-old left-hander is 3-0 with a second-best-in-MLB 1.38 ERA after four starts this season and is drawing some lofty, albeit hasty, comparisons.

Angels forced to play Bourjos at second vs. Yanks  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — For the first time in his professional career, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Peter Bourjos played the infield.  —  It didn't take long for him to look like he had already been there before.