Author: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY

Spring training has arrived and the league will convene at its 30 training camps for a spring like no other.

Opening Day is just around the corner, and the USA TODAY Sports baseball staff takes a crack at every team’s record for the new season.

Sixty games will become 162, which we all knew, but the footprint of the season is what truly sets 2021 apart from its pandemic predecessor.

Trevor Bauer’s free agency sweepstakes ended with the Cy Young winner agreeing to join the Dodgers.

Former reporter Melissa Ludtke scored a landmark court victory in 1978 permitting her to cover baseball clubhouses, but there is more work to be done.

Schilling requested his name be removed from the ballot next year, but the BBWAA is urging the Hall of Fame to keep the pitcher.

Schilling narrowly missed election to the Hall of Fame, getting named on 71.1% of ballots, just 16 votes shy of the 75% required for induction.

Rodriguez, who hit 696 career home runs, will make his first appearance on the Hall of Fame ballot in 2022, facing an uphill climb.

In his final years, former home run king Hank Aaron was alternately inspired and worried about the state of baseball.

Hank Aaron was passed by Barry Bonds on the home run list, but owns a distinction far greater than any notation in a record book.