The Latest Breaking News from Scottsdale

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Standing an athletic 6-foot-3, Ross Stripling wants you to know that he can dunk. This is important because, as Stripling says with a chuckle, “I don’t have PTSD.” And wouldn’t you, if one attempt went so awry that it put your leg in a cast?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sergio Romo didn’t think he would be this emotional. It was just catch.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There’s something missing in the major-league clubhouse here. Or, more accurately, someone.

Notebook: Right-hander Jameson Taillon makes his spring debut, and the pitch clock causes confusion in Scottsdale.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Tyler Rogers’ wife, Jennifer, remembers meeting his parents for the first time. She was nervous. Not about impressing her then-boyfriend’s family. She didn’t know if she’d be able to tell him apart from his twin brother, who rode along in the truck to pick her up.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — “Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night long.”

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A brand-new BMW 5 series is a big-league car. In other words, the 2022 graphite gray sedan was an appropriate offseason splurge for the 26-year-old who enters his first big-league camp as the Giants’ incumbent third baseman.

OdySea Aquarium in Scottsdale salutes ‘tiny arrivals’ in its population of 40 endangered seabirds

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Throughout the second half of last season, Joc Pederson routinely took pregame ground balls at first. But Giants manager Gabe Kapler downplayed Pederson’s work on the infield dirt, and nothing ever came of it.