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The Cubs’ top three prospects are all outfielders, and they’re all in major-league camp.

The new pitch clock rule meant to speed up games has been welcomed by most Chicago Cubs and White Sox players, and we’ll begin seeing it next weekend when Cactus League games begin in Arizona.

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 — Does the World Baseball Classic want to remain a glorified exhibition or does it want to be baseball’s equivalent of a World Cup?

“That was really trashy of them,” Clevinger said in reference to 670 The Score’s “Parkins & Spiegel” show. “That was some lowlife material right there.”

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Normalcy returned to Chicago White Sox camp on Day Two of spring training, or whatever passes for normalcy these days at Camelback Ranch.

Cubs pitching prospects who experienced the pitch clock in the minors last year say the adjustment just takes time.

With new rules come new hand signals.

For the first 12 or so years of my life, I was convinced that one day I would be the starting catcher for the Yankees. I was a switch-hitter, like my idol Jorge Posada, and I wore No. 7 for Mickey Mantle, the player I was almost named after. I…