1.   Before spring workouts were even one day old, the Yankees had received their first trade request and encountered their first minor controversy.

2.   By all rights, Kenyon Coleman should not be out at Spaulding Field this week running through spring workouts.

3.   Coaches, although caving to the medical lobby within the NCAA, managed to keep their spring workouts, but not without severe limitations on the way players practice.

4.   Forty-six days after players began arriving in Kissimmee, Fla., for the start of spring workouts, the Astros found their way home.

5.   For the very presence of the Orioles -- the major-league Orioles -- at a spring training workout signaled two victories.

6.   He followed that up with a stellar combine performance and has had superior workouts all spring.

7.   He also revealed he had sustained a rib cage injury lifting weights which curtailed his workouts this spring.

8.   He lifts weights daily, runs, does neck exercises and works out on the football field, hoping to return for spring workouts.

9.   It felt like a tennis match, not a spring workout.

10.   It was only a spring workout, but it still felt special to Rodriguez.