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The Dodgers and Cubs will open the 2025 season with the two-game Tokyo Series from March 18-19. We’ll be counting down to that date with our annual preview series, with each story looking ahead to the coming season by breaking down a particular topic, division by division. Previously: Division champs

SAN DIEGO -- While the Padres wait on a decision from Roki Sasaki, they’ve added a potential batterymate. San Diego agreed to a deal with veteran catcher Martín Maldonado, sources told MLB.com on Thursday. It's a non-roster contract for the 38-year-old Maldonado. He will receive an invite to Major League

The 2024 season was one for the books, but as we look ahead to what's next with just weeks to go before Spring Training games get underway, it's clear that the best is yet to come. That, of course, begins with the reveal of MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

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Mark your calendars. Spring Breakout is back. The official dates and times of this year’s Spring Training prospect showcase were announced by Major League Baseball on Thursday. The Red Sox and Rays will begin this year’s edition on Thursday, March 13, in Port Charlotte, Fla., and the Reds and Brewers

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

SAN DIEGO -- So now what? Roki Sasaki was the Padres' Plan A this winter. They hoped desperately to woo the ace Japanese right-hander as an anchor of their starting rotation for years to come. They made that much known from the moment he was posted last month. As of

For talented amateur ballplayers from across the globe, there is no day on the calendar quite like Jan. 15. Signaling the opening of the international signing period, it’s the day in which years of hard work and perseverance make dreams come true. Most often, it’s the first step on a

We are celebrating the small yet mighty canvas that is the Minor League cap for National Hat Day. Clubs across the Minors utilize them as a fun way to represent their teams, regions and sometimes even their parent organizations. Not to mention they also look pretty sweet. Here's a close

Following are the first workout dates, subject to change, both for pitchers and catchers and full squads of the 30 Major League clubs for 2025 Spring Training.

Famous Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray probably said it best way back in the early 20th century. "To create, one must first question everything." It's hard to know if the city council members in San Diego were familiar with Gray or that quote or anything having to do with

The Dodgers understand the importance of a top catcher. While superstars Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman grab plenty of headlines, Will Smith remains one of the pillars of Los Angeles’ success. Since he debuted in 2019, Smith ranks second among all Major League catchers with an 18.5 fWAR,

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Luis Arraez and Dylan Cease were among the five players with whom the Padres avoided arbitration ahead of Thursday’s deadline. Righty Michael King did not reach an agreement with San Diego before the deadline, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand, and will exchange salary figures with the club.

The 2025 international signing window opens Wednesday, and this will be perhaps the most interesting period for that since Shohei Ohtani joined the Angels in 2017. Roki Sasaki has until Jan. 23 to sign with a Major League organization as part of the NPB posting rules, so he might not

It's a great time to watch young stars in baseball. Here's who might be next up in 2025. Phenoms like Bobby Witt Jr., Gunnar Henderson, Elly De La Cruz and Paul Skenes stole the show last season. And there will be a new wave of rising stars that stand out

It’s a little bit the calm before the prospect storm at MLB Pipeline. We just finished publishing our four-part series based on our annual Executive Poll, something I’ll refer to a few times in this week’s MLB Pipeline Inbox. And next week (answering a question we’re getting a lot), we

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With the calendar flipping to 2025, we can say that Spring Training begins next month. While this offseason has featured plenty of activity, there is still work to be done and questions to be answered for many clubs before they arrive in Arizona and Florida. Here are each team's biggest

In the final installment of the MLB Pipeline Executives Poll, we’re pulling back from the granular and taking a more organizational perspective. After exploring individual players and tools, we’re using a wider lens to see what front offices think about … each other’s operations. All of the questions in Part

Let’s keep drilling down, shall we? In the first two parts of our MLB Pipeline Executive Poll, we asked front offices about who they thought will be the 2025 Rookies of the Year, who the top prospects are and, of course, some Roki Sasaki questions. In Part III, we asked