CHICAGO -- Given the Cubs’ need for catching depth this offseason, Matt Thaiss became a logical target for the North Siders after the Angels cut ties with him last week. Chicago officially added Thaiss to the fold on Wednesday. The Cubs acquired Thaiss in exchange for a cash consideration from

CHICAGO – One of the stated goals for Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer this offseason was to build up a deeper bullpen inventory. Setbacks early on last season within the relief corps created a domino effect that took months to sort out. On Wednesday, the Cubs took a

CHICAGO -- Owen Caissie consistently has been one of the younger hitters at each level as he has moved up the Minor League ladder during his four seasons in the Cubs’ farm system. The outfielder’s steady march has featured steady production. On Tuesday, Caissie’s climb to the Cubs and Wrigley

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For all 30 Major League teams, some of the biggest decisions of the offseason had to be made by Tuesday's deadline for setting 40-man rosters. Any player eligible for the Rule 5 Draft and not added to his organization’s roster by 6 p.m. ET now will be available to be

Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based

CHICAGO -- Shota Imanaga authored one of the great rookie seasons in the long, storied history of the Cubs this year. Now, the left-hander has been rewarded by baseball fans and a panel of experts with a place on the 2024 All-MLB Team presented by MGM Rewards. As part of

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

On Monday, the winners of the American League and National League Rookie of the Year Awards will be announced on MLB Network. You really can’t go wrong with any of the three finalists in either league, but I found myself, as I looked over the NL trio, feeling like there

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Week 5 in the Arizona Fall League was about spotlighting the best the top prospect circuit had to offer, with Fall Star festivities limiting regular-season AFL play to only four days in the desert. These two players stood out for squeezing exceptional performances into that small sample. Mesa corner outfielder/infielder

SAN ANTONIO -- It has been a decade since the Cubs landed Jon Lester in free agency during the Winter Meetings in San Diego. That move added an established ace to the top of Chicago’s rotation and helped ignite the string of postseason runs that included ending the club’s World

Here are the top performers from the fifth week of AFL action:

The best of the Arizona Fall League took the field at Sloan Park on Saturday night for the Fall Stars Game. A plethora of baseball's best prospect got their chance to showcase their skills, including Tigers No. 6 prospect Thayron Lirizano, who was named the game's MVP after delivering a

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Call it the mid-autumn classic. The Arizona Fall League’s Fall Stars Game arrives Saturday at Mesa’s Sloan Park at 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. local, placing some of the game’s best prospects and the circuit’s best performers on the same field. The game will be broadcast on MLB Network and streamed

SAN ANTONIO -- Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer had conversations with agent Scott Boras over the past couple of weeks that gave him a sense of what was to come on the Cody Bellinger front. Increasingly, the belief inside Chicago’s front office was that the star outfielder planned

CHICAGO -- Once Ian Happ became a fixture in left field for the Cubs, the outfielder wanted to do all he could to master the position. That is an especially daunting task at Wrigley Field, where foul territory disappears up the line and ivy serves as the only cushion from

Prior to the 2000 season, Knoxville’s Double-A Southern League franchise relocated 20 miles east, to the town of Kodak, and christened themselves the Tennessee Smokies. Twenty-five years later, the team is going back to its roots. The Smokies return to Knoxville in 2025, operating out of brand-new Covenant Health Ballpark

The 2024 Arizona Fall League Home Run Derby lived up to its billing with a last-second long ball to close things out. Yankees prospect Garrett Martin finished with a flourish in the final round, hitting his 10th tater of the session to inch past Brewers No. 8 prospect Brock Wilken

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CHICAGO -- Much of how the Cubs could proceed with their offseason strategy in the coming months hinged on Cody Bellinger's decision to either stay put in Chicago or enter free agency again. Bellinger is not going anywhere. Bellinger has decided to pick up his player option for 2025, a