The 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalists were announced on Wednesday, with the winners set to be unveiled on ESPN on Sunday, Nov. 1. Each league has three finalists at each position, including the utility spot, which was awarded for the first time in 2022.

The most important thing for prospects is development: learning how to be a professional, acquiring new skills, sharpening tools or pitches. There often can be bumps in the road along the path to the big leagues, and it's important to note that performance and production in the moment isn't necessarily

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CHICAGO -- The first time Seiya Suzuki headed into Sloan Park in Arizona for batting practice, he had a captive audience. There was a fascination over this power hitter the Cubs had signed out of Japan, and this was his first chance to display what all the hype was about.

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Mike Ditka, who passed away on Friday at 86 years old, was known for a lot of things. He was the first tight end inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Ditka also helped the Bears to their first and only Super Bowl victory as their head coach in

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates. As a reminder, players can remain on the 60-day IL through the World Series, after which teams must account for those players on their 40-man roster.

Last week, MLB Pipeline revealed its selections for Minor League Hitting Prospect of the Year and Minor League Pitching Prospect of the Year during the 2026 MiLB Awards Show on MLB Network. Brewers corner infielder Andrew Fischer won hitting honors after swatting 48 homers, the most in the Minors since

CHICAGO – Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer spent much of his morning on Friday going through exit meetings with players at Wrigley Field. There were also conversations with coaches and staff, and parting words as those not based in Chicago prepared for travels home. This is not what

The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is underway, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout October and November as AFL matchups are once again streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. All but five games of the

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- One of the most gifted young hitters in the Cubs system, Juan Cabada was ready for the challenges that awaited him when he made his U.S. debut this year. Signed for $1.5 million out of the Dominican Republic in 2025, he batted .283/.387/.434 in his first 14

MESA, Ariz. -- If someone told Cubs prospect Kade Snell he’d be playing professional baseball when he first embarked on his college career at Auburn, he’d have believed it. But if he knew it would be as an outfielder, he might have done a double take. “I would have asked

Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs has been selected Baseball Digest’s 2026 MLB Player of the Year. Jacob Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers has been named MLB Pitcher of the Year while the San Diego Padres’ Mason Miller has been voted MLB Relief Pitcher of the Year. Crow-Armstrong received 21

CHICAGO – Ian Happ kept his small tradition going during the Cubs’ final home game of the regular season. As he has done in past years, the Cubs’ long-time outfielder wrapped a baseball in cash and threw it to the fans in Wrigley Field’s left-field bleachers. The first round of

SAN DIEGO -- This was not how this Cubs’ season was supposed to end. This script offered the ballclub the same path through October as a year ago, giving the North Siders a shot at redemption after last fall’s postseason exit against the rival Brewers. This was the 10th anniversary

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres made sure this year was different. The 2025 iteration of this National League Wild Card Series in Chicago left a sour taste in San Diego’s mouth, and rightfully so. An already struggling lineup flatlined. There were virtually no big moments. They didn’t have a raucous

The Minor League playoffs have been completed. There are only a handful of players with prospect eligibility remaining left in the Major League postseason, and there will be fewer with each passing round. Time for us in prospectdom to go into offseason mode? Not so fast, friends. The Arizona Fall

Action in the Arizona Fall League kicked off over the weekend with a full slate of games, with big names already turning heads. While a lot of attention is understandably given to the high-profile prospects -- the late additions of Sebastian Walcott, Aidan Miller and Angeibel Gomez created some fun

SAN DIEGO -- All the information that Cubs lefty Matthew Boyd consumed and studied leading up to Game 1 of the National League Wild Card Series pointed to a probable outcome with Fernando Tatis Jr. leading off for the Padres. Tatis was going to swing. Boyd kept that in mind

SAN DIEGO -- When the Cubs revealed their roster for the National League Wild Card Series on Tuesday morning, there were no big surprises. The entire five-man rotation made the list among the dozen arms included, and the position group featured the same players from September.

There’s more than one way to build a winning baseball club. You can rely almost exclusively on homegrown talent, like the Guardians are doing this year with 16 players on their projected postseason roster coming from the Draft or international signing processes. You can be active traders like the Rays

There’s no shortage of praise that can be heaped upon Pete Crow-Armstrong's stunning season. He became one of the very few players in baseball history to post a 40/40 year, broke Statcast-era defensive records, challenged the all-time Cubs single-season records for Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and – we assume –

The 2026 Minor League season was one for the record books … literally. Across the Minors, dozens of exclusive statistical clubs were infiltrated by this year's crop of young stars. The Brewers' Andrew Fischer mashed 48 regular-season homers, the most in MiLB since 1982, (and two in the postseason). A