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The Arizona Diamondbacks will return to Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico to play an exhibition game against Mexico's World Baseball Classic team at 1:05 p.m. on March 6 at Hector Espino Stadium.

The D-backs' contest against Mexico's WBC team on March 6 will be the second game of a two-game exhibition series between the two clubs during the spring, as Arizona will host Team Mexico at Tucson Electric Park at 5:05 p.m. on March 4 in Tucson. The games will serve as a tune-up for Mexico's WBC team prior to the start of the international baseball tournament that begins on March 8 in Mexico City. Team Mexico will be managed by former Major League player Vinny Castilla, who slugged 320 homers during a 16-year big league career and also was a member on Mexico's WBC team in 2006.

A 60-foot, 6-inch-high sculpture designed to be the focal point of the Cleveland Indians' new spring-training facility in Goodyear, Az. was installed Friday.

The sculpture from Donald Lipski will be the first thing to greet fans as they enter the ballpark.

The Baltimore Orioles and Lee County continue discussions about a move by the Birds to City of Palms Park for Spring Training 2012, with Lee County officials continuing to be optimistic about adding a third team to Fort Myers.

They estimate the chances at 80 percent the team will move to City of Palms Park after the Boston Red Sox depart for a new suburban training facility. Not bad; but let's not forget Vero Beach and Sarasota officials were similarly optimistic about landing the team in previous discussions.

The final lineup of reporting dates have now been posted! You can find them here.

If you're in the Twin Cities area or have access to streaming media on your computer, take note: Spring Training Online's Kevin Reichard will be live in studio on KFAN-AM (1130) Sunday, Jan. 18, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Central, with Henry Lake. He'll be taking calls in the 10:30-10:45 segment. If you're outside the Twin Cities area, you can listen in here: http://www.kfan.com/main.html.

There will be lots of other places to check out Spring Training Online in person. We'll have some more details next week, but the folks in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Orlando, Tampa and Fort Myers should note Kevin Reichard will be on book-signing tours in February and meeting with friends of the site.