Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw five strong innings, Shohei Ohtani had two hits and scored twice and the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 in Major League Baseball's season opener at the Tokyo Dome.

Counsell said growing into the role as manager of the Cubs also required him to adapt.

Steele was only 18 when he was drafted, and he still feels like one of the young guns on the team.

Taillon did not take too much time off before reporting to Cubs camp — he worked on regaining some of his pitch speed.

Sandberg was back at training camp in Mesa, Arizona this year, despite undergoing a second round of treatments for prostate cancer that he announced returned and spread to other organs in December.