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Here we have the Kansas City Royals' 2014 starting rotation: James Shields, Jason Vargas, Yordano Ventura, Jeremy Guthrie and Bruce Chen. It's not particularly pretty, but I'll go to battle with it. Kansas City has a great chance to end a 29-year playoff drought this year and those five, for better or worse, are a crucial part of that chance.

In the long term, however, much more is in flux.

Per MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout signed a six-year, $144.5 million contract Friday, marking the second-largest deal in MLB history for a player with less than three years of service time, according to ESPN Stats & Info.

Daisuke Matsuzaka will not be the fifth starter for the New York Mets to start the 2014 season after losing the spring training battle to Jenrry Mejia.

Dice-K will instead take a trip to Triple-A for the time being, as reported by SportsCenter:

Great player. Bad move. Terrible contract.

During the Freeway Series game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels on Friday, March 28, fans and players began to react to earthquake tremors. 

Dodgers announcer Vin Scully didn't seem too worried, however, as he calmly continued to talk through the tremors like a true professional. You can watch the whole thing in the video below.

During an exhibition game between the Los Angeles Angels and Dodgers, Hanley Ramirez hit a foul ball into the stands behind first base.

This was no friendly pop-up, but one fan was able to lay out and sacrifice his body to make the line-drive catch, which you can see in the video below.

Despite an early 3-0 lead in the first inning, the Angels ended up losing 5-4 to the Dodgers in 10 innings.

The St. Louis Cardinals have always reveled in the underdog role.

They were the underdog against the Texas Rangers in the 2011 World Series. They were the underdog against the Los Angeles Dodgers in last year's playoffs. They’ve been the underdog against just about everyone in past Octobers.

Except for this year.

A spring training game between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets in Montreal took a scary turn Friday night when a fan fell from the stands at Olympic Stadium.

Constable Raphael Bergeron, spokesman for the Montreal Police, revealed the following information in a call to CNN:

If Bud Selig is, in fact, going to retire at the end of the year as he says he will, then Major League Baseball has some work to do to figure out who's on deck to become the next commissioner. 

For young, emerging superstars, contracts and earning power often become a combination of risk, reward and timing. For Mike Trout, the stars aligned in the form of a $144.5 million contract extension from the Los Angeles Angels, setting the once-in-a-generation all-around baseball genius up for now and later.