Paul Skenes was selected first overall in the 2023 MLB Draft just 500 days ago. On Wednesday, he was recognized as one of the top pitchers in the sport, finishing third in the voting for the 2024 National League Cy Young Award.

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TOKYO -- Move over, Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout. It’s time for a new chapter in the baseball rivalry between Japan and the United States, 611 days after the unforgettable conclusion to the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The global powerhouses meet Thursday at the Tokyo Dome (7 p.m. local, 5

Paul Skenes entered the 2024 season with the expectations of being the top pitching prospect of his generation. He will exit 2024 as the top rookie in the National League. "It's cool," Skenes said over Zoom, "and it's an honor. I think it's just a product of showing up each

Paul Skenes has already lived up to the hype. It took him all of one year to go from No. 1 Draft pick to one of the most dominant pitchers in the Major Leagues. Now he's the National League Rookie of the Year (and a Cy Young Award finalist). But

The Pirates will go into 2025 with a pool of young catchers with considerable upside, and a new coach to help them grow defensively. The team is elevating Jordan Comadena to Major League catching coach, sources told MLB.com on Wednesday. Comadena has served as a bullpen catcher since 2016, and

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

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to track all of the Pirates' moves, along with the progress of any injured players.

Below are point totals for the balloting for the 2024 Rookie of the Year Award, as voted on by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Ballots for each award were submitted before the start of the postseason from two writers in every city, based on the league covered.

The Rookie of the Year Award winners will be announced Monday, with the National League featuring one of the closest three-way races ever. Who had the better season between Jackson Chourio, who recorded the third-ever 20/20 season by a rookie age 20 or younger; Jackson Merrill, who made an easy

Part of the thrill of opening up a pack of baseball cards is never knowing what could be inside. It could be your favorite player, a rookie card, or if you’re really lucky, decades worth of season tickets. Topps released its 2024 Chrome Update Series on Wednesday, which includes a

The 6 p.m. ET deadline to add players to their 40-man rosters and protect them from the Rule 5 Draft has come and gone. We've listed every organization's ranked prospects who are Rule 5-eligible and whether they were protected or not. There were four Top 100 prospects who required protection

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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

PITTSBURGH -- Paul Skenes turned in a historic rookie performance in 2024, setting a franchise record for strikeouts by a rookie and finishing with an ERA that no rookie since the Dead Ball Era has boasted. The league -- and its fans -- took notice, and Skenes was named to

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PITTSBURGH -- During the spring of 2012, Matt Hague earned the nickname “the hit collector” after a torrid Spring Training that earned him a spot on the Major League team. Twelve years later, the Pirates are turning to him again to try to get the offense going. Hague has been

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

Paul Skenes entered pro ball in 2023 billed as the top pitching prospect of his generation. In 2024, he established himself as not only one of the best rookies in the game, but also one of the best pitchers in the National League. On Monday, Skenes got formal recognition of

PITTSBURGH -- May 11, 2024 -- Paul Skenes’ Major League debut -- could go down as one of the most important days for the Pirates in the 21st century. Now, we can take a deeper look into what that day at the ballpark was like for the Pirates’ prize pitcher.

With the World Series over and the Arizona Fall League wrapping up, now is a good time to take stock of an exciting year in prospectdom. In October, MLB Pipeline released its updated Top 100 Prospects list, which featured several big changes at the top, but we're going to take

Before Pirates ace Paul Skenes and national champion gymnast Livvy Dunne became MLB’s current power couple, they were LSU’s golden couple ... or geaux-lden couple. On Saturday, Skenes and Dunne were in Baton Rouge, La., as the celebrity guest pickers on ESPN’s “College GameDay” pregame show.

Call it a last-chance saloon in the middle of the desert. The Arizona Fall League provides more than just an opportunity to see some of the game’s top prospects in one spot. It’s also the final place certain Minor Leaguers can prove they are deserving of a 40-man roster spot