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Cubs reach 1-year contract with third baseman Patrick Wisdom

The team announced the deal on Friday night. Wisdom hit .205 with 23 homers and 46 RBI in 97 games for Chicago this year. The Cubs also offered 2024 contracts to six arbitration-eligible players: pitchers Justin Steele, Adbert Alzolay, Mark Leiter Jr., and Julian Merryweather, to go along with infielder Nick Madrigal and outfielder Mike […]

Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Monday

Monday’s marquee matchup is north of the border with American League Cy Young candidate Lance Lynn leading the Chicago White Sox against American League Rookie of the Year contender Alek Manoah and the Toronto Blue Jays. The series with the greatest playoff implications takes place in Oakland as the Seattle Mariners and Athletics are in […]

‘We’re going to hug if we get this done’ – How the White Sox pulled off a crosstown trade for Craig Kimbrel

As the afternoon hours ticked down on MLB trade deadline day, the front office was hopeful — but still very nervous — about the potential of acquiring the player they had targeted for weeks: All-star Chicago Cubs closer Craig Kimbrel. “There’s a roller coaster ride that’s part of it,” White Sox GM Rick Hahn said […]

Five teams that could take down the Dodgers this season

With that in mind, we asked five our ESPN MLB experts to each pick one team they think is best-suited to take down the Dodgers — in October, when it counts the most. While none of our experts necessarily expect this team to be better than L.A. for the 162-game long haul, they all made […]

Chicago White Sox look to future after taste of playoffs

They are hoping for a longer stay as soon as next year. Chicago’s breakout season was stopped by a three-game loss at Oakland in the American League wild-card round. But it looks as if the White Sox have a bright future after stopping a string of seven consecutive losing records with their first playoff appearance […]

Oakland A’s oust Chicago White Sox, advance for 1st time since 2006

OAKLAND, Calif. — Sure, most of these young Oakland Athletics might barely remember some of the gut-wrenching October losses over the past two decades. Two recent defeats were plenty fresh enough to motivate manager Bob Melvin’s slugging, happy-go-lucky A’s. Oakland finally ended 14 years of postseason futility, riding Chad Pinder’s go-ahead, two-run single in the […]

Expert picks for the 2020 MLB playoffs

The Washington Nationals did not make it into this year’s MLB playoffs, so Major League Baseball will crown a different team as champion in 2020. Can the Los Angeles Dodgers get over the final hurdle and take home their first championship since 1988? Or could the Tampa Bay Rays win their first title after earning […]

Passan: Inside a final week like MLB has never seen before

Just like that, the fastest, weirdest, pandemickiest baseball season ever has come and gone. Mathematics holds that a 60-game schedule is shorter than the standard 162, but the 2020 season has whistled by so quickly that in a way it feels more like it should be June than October. And yet here we are, on […]