With just a week before major league pitchers and catchers report to their teams’ camps, spring training is well on the horizon. With spring training comes a sense of optimism for teams and fans alike.

California is fortunate with the quality of their baseball franchises. The state has five teams: Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. The Athletics and Padres aren’t expected to compete for their respective divisions races in the 2016 season.

The Giants head into spring training looking to add to their incredible run of success over the last six years, winning World Series championships in 2010, 2012 and 2014. It is early, but the team looks like they have the core players on their roster to add another banner.

Although the core is there, there are still some spots on the roster that aren’t determined. One player that came up to the Giants from the minor leagues is Kelby Tomlinson. He performed well while filling in for the injured Joe Panik at second base for most of the second half of the season.

This fact makes it hard for the Giants to justify not keeping him on the major league club to begin the 2016 season.

They also need to add another arm in the bullpen due to the retirement of Giants great Jeremy Affeldt.

Around The Foghorn, a website dedicated to covering the team, reports that last season’s breakout starting pitcher Chris Heston could be an option for the pen as the starting rotation was filled out during the offseason with the signings of Johnny Cueto and Jeff Samardzija.

Also mentioned as potential bullpen options include hard throwing right handed pitcher Mike Broadway along with some of the team’s pitching prospects like Kyle Crick, Clayton Blackburn and Ray Black.

Spring will be exceptionally competitive for those players as they try to earn their way onto the club.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have won the National League West three consecutive seasons. In order to make it four, they have some roster spots they need to address. One such area, just like the Giants, is the bullpen.

The bullpen has been a significant weakness of the Dodgers for the past several seasons, despite them having one of the best closers in the game in Kenley Jansen. LA’s bullpen finished the 2015 season ranked 19 out of 30 teams in MLB. The problem has been getting the ball to him in the ninth inning with a lead. Many times last season their middle relievers blew games they could and probably should have won.

Dodgers Nation, a website that covers the Dodgers, reports that team president Andrew Friedman has listed hard-throwing right hander Frankie Montas, veteran lefty Alex Wood and Cuban right-handed pitcher Yasiel Sierra as potential players that could have a chance to make the bullpen in this upcoming season.

The Los Angeles Angels have been a very good ball club over the last few seasons just like their NL counterpart, but they have a glaring weakness that can’t go without being addressed before the season begins; that weakness is left field.

The Angels are set in center field and right field with superstar Mike Trout and the promising young Kole Kalhoun in right field.

Since the team was unable to recruit big name outfielders such as Yoenis Cespedes and Justin Upton, they instead made a more low profile signing when they inked Daniel Nava to a one-year deal, according to Halos Heaven, a website that covers the Angels

Although spring is just the beginning of the season, many times the decisions made then have lasting effects throughout, including the postseason. That is why spring training means so much.