From stunning comebacks to thrilling walk-offs to dominant pitching performances, every team had its share of memorable triumphs in 2024. But what was each club’s signature win of the season?

Twenty years since he last patrolled right field at Wrigley Field, Sammy Sosa and the Cubs are working on a reunion. After the seven-time Chicago All-Star and 1998 National League MVP put out a statement on Thursday in which he apologized and acknowledged that, “I made mistakes” during a playing

There was no shortage of storylines in the 2024 season, which featured some of the best individual seasons and performances that baseball has ever seen -- we're looking at you Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge. Which single-game performances were the best? We asked each of our 30 beat writers which

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Kyle Tucker was left off the Astros’ postseason roster in 2018 after a brief, first taste of the Major Leagues, but he’s known nothing but baseball seasons stretching into October since then. The 27-year-old outfielder has already played in 64 postseason games spanning 15 series, with five trips to the

Addressing his crowded outfield on Tuesday, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer told reporters that, “We’re not done yet.” And he wasn’t kidding. Hours after Hoyer uttered those words about last week’s addition of three-time All-Star Kyle Tucker, Chicago traded one of its surplus outfielders, former National League MVP

CHICAGO – The Cubs headed into this offseason wanting to find a partner for Miguel Amaya to create a solid catching tandem. Carson Kelly is joining Chicago to offer an experienced piece to that part of the roster puzzle -- and he was a boyhood Cubs fan to boot. Born

This roster moves and injury updates page will be updated throughout the offseason as news happens.

Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. As one executive put it when asked

CHICAGO -- Shortly after the World Series concluded, the Cubs’ front office went to work on canvassing other ballclubs about who might be available via trade. One of Chicago’s targets was star outfielder Kyle Tucker, entering his final year of control with the Astros. The Cubs have been looking for

We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It’s part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first

One of the best all-around hitters in the Major Leagues is on the move. The Cubs and Astros completed a four-player deal on Friday that sent star outfielder Kyle Tucker to Chicago for power-hitting third baseman Isaac Paredes, right-handed pitcher Hayden Wesneski and 2024 first-round Draft pick Cam Smith.

This story was excerpted from Jordan Bastian’s Cubs Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CHICAGO -- The first time that Matthew Boyd puts on a Cubs uniform, he will have his grandfather on his mind. Memories have already

DALLAS -- The Cubs have worked hard to establish their ballclub as a serious contender to reel in star players who come to the Major Leagues from Japan. Chicago will hope its efforts on that front in recent years can play a role in their pitch to free agent Roki

Lots of Winter Meetings-related questions (Draft Lottery, trades, Juan Soto signing fallout) arrived in the Pipeline Inbox, so let's get to them. Nice work projecting every team's top pick in the 2025 Draft. But what about choices 28-37? --Jonathan M., Pittsburgh When I did my way-too-early first-round forecast after the

DALLAS -- The way Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer views things, the real benefit of MLB’s Winter Meetings is the chance to make quick progress in conversations with other teams. A trade scenario that might take a week for a reply at other points in the winter can

DALLAS -- The trade market presents the most realistic path for the Cubs to find a way to shake up their offense. There is little wiggle room on the position player side of the roster, making it essential for president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer to consider a wide range

DALLAS – Arms were on the menu during Wednesday afternoon’s Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings. A total of 15 players were taken in the Major League phase of this year’s Rule 5 and 11 of them were pitchers. It started when the White Sox took right-hander Shane Smith

DALLAS -- Ryne Sandberg made the decision nearly a year ago to go public with his battle with cancer, wanting to keep Cubs fans updated as he fought through treatments. After a year of positive developments, the Hall of Famer shared some tough news on Tuesday morning. Sandberg posted a

MLB Pipeline gives our organizational Top 30 prospect rankings complete refreshes twice per calendar year (once in spring, once in-season) and provides other live updates as graduations and other transactions necessitate them. In the latter category, two dates in particular are our busiest for Top 30 updates: the Trade Deadline

DALLAS – In the 2009 and ‘10 MLB Drafts, the Washington Nationals had the No. 1 pick and turned those selections into a pair of franchise-changing players, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper. At Tuesday’s Draft Lottery during the 2024 Winter Meetings, Washington earned another shot at the very top of

The 2025 Draft may still be seven months away but it's also in the news. MLB Pipeline released its initial Draft Top 100 late last week and MLB staged the Draft Lottery on Tuesday evening at the Winter Meetings.

DALLAS – The strong performance that Dansby Swanson turned in over the final few months of last season made his admission at the end of the campaign surprising for the Cubs’ front office. The veteran shortstop acknowledged that he had been playing through a sports hernia. The Cubs revealed on

DALLAS -- The sudden nature of Craig Counsell’s hiring as the manager of the Cubs on Nov. 6, 2023, denied him the typical timeframe for constructing his first coaching staff in Chicago. After one season at the helm, Counsell has seen his initial group at work, and identified some areas