3 takeaways from the Chicago Cubs at the winter meetings, including trades on horizon and a bench overhaul
Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer never wants to look too far ahead when navigating trades. At the winter meetings this past week, Hoyer and general manager Carter Hawkins made ...
3 big moves Jed Hoyer has to make after the Cubs missed out on Garrett Crochet
The Boston Red Sox landed White Sox ace Garrett Crochet for a haul, which included two top-100 prospects per MLB Pipeline and four top-15 prospects in the Red S ...
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Signing with Cubs stirs ‘special’ emotion for Boyd
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Roki Sasaki sweepstakes are underway, and the Chicago Cubs are prepared to make their pitch to the Japanese phenom
The sweepstakes to land Japanese hard-throwing right-hander Roki Sasaki are underway. The posting process for Sasaki to make the move to Major League Baseball began Tuesday, and his agent, Joel Wolfe, ...
Daywatch: Suburban airport runway project remains in limbo
The Waukegan National Airport’s project to build a new runway in the northern part of the city remains as unresolved this December as it did last December because it cannot move forward until the FAA ...
Gophers football will play at Wrigley Field in 2025
All five of the Gophers football team’s road games in 2025 are intriguing. Four of them had dates confirmed with the Big Ten schedule release Wednesday. Minnesota will have two trips to the West Coast ...
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Winter Meetings are over. But trade & free agency buzz is just beginning
This week’s Winter Meetings started off with a historic free-agent contract and ended with a trade the baseball world had been anticipating for months. And there’s still plenty of action to come. Juan ...
MLB rumors: The issue preventing Yankees, Cubs from pulling off Cody Bellinger trade
After the Yankees lost out on the Soto sweepstakes, they need to find an outfielder and Cody Bellinger makes sense, but there ...
MLB free agency: Trade market heats up with Garrett Crochet headed to Red Sox. Will Kyle Tucker be dealt next?
MLB free agency is upon us, with the league's winter meetings underway in Dallas this week. The name on everyone's lips is ...
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Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record 15-year, $765 million deal
NEW YORK — Juan Soto will be introduced by the New York Mets at Citi Field on Thursday, a day after his record 15-year, $765 million contract was finalized. Soto chose the Mets’ offer, deciding to ...
White Sox select RHP Shane Smith first in Rule 5 Draft
The Chicago White Sox, following a historically bad 121-loss season, selected right-hander Shane Smith with the first pick in the Rule 5 Draft on Wednesday.
George Kresge Jr., who wowed talk show audiences as the The Amazing Kreskin, dies
The Amazing Kreskin launched his television career in the 1960s and remained popular for decades, appearing with everyone from Merv Griffin to Johnny Carson to Jimmy Fallon.