"After a whirlwind blitz of new teams and stadiums in recent years, Arizona's Cactus League will pause this spring and take a deep breath.

The biggest visible addition for purveyors of spring training, in fact, will be a player — superstar Albert Pujols, joining the Angels in Tempe after a decade training with the Cardinals in Florida. Yu Darvish will cause a stir in Surprise, where the Rangers train.

For the first time since 2008, no teams have changed locations. And the run of glittering new facilities — which has seen ballparks rise up in Surprise, Glendale, Goodyear and Scottsdale in the past nine years, with another one on the way for the Cubs in Mesa in 2014 — may finally have reached an end.

But that doesn't mean change isn't in the wind. In the volatile world of spring training, where the dueling leagues in Arizona and Florida have been jockeying for teams for decades, the potential for movement is always present.

That volatility, it appears, won't affect the Mariners, whose lease in Peoria, Ariz., is up after the 2013 spring, as is that of the Padres, with whom they share the facility. But as the M's prepare to open their 20th season in Peoria when pitchers and catchers report Feb. 11, all signs point toward smooth negotiations on an extension."