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Don Mattingly, entering his second year as Dodgers manager, likes the team's tradition of holding a weeklong development program for top minor leaguers at Dodger Stadium each January.

During the Winter Meetings in Dallas, new Cardinals manager Mike Matheny sat with farm director John Vuch and mapped out the number and names of the non-roster invitees they wanted to bring to major league spring training. Some would have a chance to win a job. Others would get an opportunity to leave an impression. A few were just getting an invite to their future.

Since coming on board late last year, the data-driven CEO George Postolos and general manager Jeff Luhnow have revolutionized the thinking of a club that was never all that pioneering in the world of 21st-century statistical analysis.