In case you missed it: Zach Lee’s strain, Dee Gordon’s gain

By Jon Weisman

• Zach Lee’s spring has been slowed by a mild right lat strain, reports Ken Gurnick of MLB.com. “Lee said he suffered the injury during the ‘Young Guns’ pitching mini-camp two weeks ago while doing pull-ups,” Gurnick writes.
• Yahoo Sports ranks the Dodgers second among the 30 Major League teams entering Spring Training. Tim Brown has the write-up. The next-highest National League West team in the Yahoo rankings was Arizona at No. 15.
• Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus chronicles Yasiel Puig’s issues with fastballs. “The surprise is that fastballs are actually, arguably, possibly, Puig’s relative weakness,” Miller writes. “Since 2009, there have been 26 players who got 350 plate appearances or more in an age-22 season. Puig’s whiff/swing rate on fastballs was the worst of them.” Mark Saxon of ESPN Los Angeles has his own take on Miller’s article.

• Infielders Dee Gordon, Miguel Rojas and Brendan Harris were among the position players reporting to camp early for voluntary workouts.
• Gurnick writes about Gordon’s significant weight gain — 29 pounds in three years — and strengthening program.
  

  “I eat six meals a day,” he said. “I’ve done this on my own. I just want to be stronger. I was nervous that it would slow me down, but I played in Puerto Rico and I saw that nothing happened to my speed. That was a relief. And I’m hitting the ball with more authority.”

• Clayton Kershaw, Dan Haren, Chris Perez, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Brian Wilson, J.P. Howell, Javy Guerra, Seth Rosin, Jose Dominguez, Matt Magill, Ross Stripling, Chris Reed, Daniel Moskos and Sam Demel each had their second bullpen sessions of the spring.
• Saturday is a scheduled day off for every pitcher in camp, a plan (according to the Dodger press notes) conceived in the offseason because there is no other regularly scheduled off day in the Spring Training season before the team leaves for Australia.
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  College baseball takes center stage at Camelback Ranch-Glendale this weekend when Seth Rosin’s Minnesota Golden Gophers face Dodger general manager Ned Colletti’s alma mater, the Northern Illinois Huskies, in a three-game series to open their 2014 seasons. The Gophers and Huskies will meet in the Camelback Ranch main stadium at 1 p.m. Friday-Sunday, February 14-16. Fans are invited to arrive after 9 a.m. to watch the Dodgers and White Sox morning workouts and stay for bonus college baseball in the afternoon. Admission is free and food and beverages will be available for purchase during workouts and the college games.

• Twice a former Dodger Randy Wolf is close to finalizing a deal to attempt a comeback this spring with Seattle. The 37-year-old lefty had Tommy John surgery in September 2012.
• The rest of Jon SooHoo’s photo gallery from Tuesday is here.