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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. In the words of a great bird I once met, “Gobble, gobble.” Thanksgiving is not a holiday traditionally associated with baseball, but if you’re reading a baseball site on Thanksgiving Day, you know that in a just world, every holiday is one associated with baseball. So, today,

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A year ago, we provided one Rookie of the Year candidate for every team. How’d we do? We nailed the NL top rookie (Paul Skenes) and also picked out two others who received votes (Jackson Chourio and Mason Miller). That’s a good enough success rate to try the whole exercise

Now that the Arizona Fall League has crowned a new champion and MLB's awards season is winding down, the baseball world in the United States is preparing to turn its attention to the Hot Stove. But that doesn't mean baseball isn't being played. There are plenty of exciting and talented

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres reshuffled their roster ahead of Friday's deadline to tender contracts to players. Most notably, the club agreed to a one-year contract with utilityman Tyler Wade -- a deal that includes a team option for the 2026 season. Additionally, the Padres did not tender contracts to

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

Here’s an interesting quirk of this year’s MVP Awards: Both winners already had earned the honor in the past. That’s only the second time that’s happened since the Baseball Writers’ Association of America began voting in 1931; the other was in 1955, when Yogi Berra and Roy Campanella both won

Though the quality of pitching in the Arizona Fall League continued to decline, the developmental circuit's best prospect did his work on the mound. Phillies right-hander Andrew Painter returned to competition after missing the entire 2023 and 2024 seasons and quickly re-established himself as the most promising young arm in

SAN DIEGO -- Padres manager Mike Shildt finished second to Milwaukee's Pat Murphy for the National League Manager of the Year Award, which was announced Tuesday night. It marked San Diego's second runner-up finish in as many nights in the BBWAA Awards, after Jackson Merrill came in second to Pittsburgh’s

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres added three Minor League pitchers to their 40-man roster on Tuesday, ahead of the deadline to protect prospects from next month's Rule 5 Draft. Right-handers Henry Baez and Ryan Bergert and lefty Omar Cruz had their contracts selected, bringing the San Diego 40-man roster to

SAN DIEGO -- Jackson Merrill had as strong a case as anyone to end the Padres' longstanding Rookie of the Year drought. He came up just short on Monday night.

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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

SAN DIEGO -- Four Padres were honored at Thursday's All-MLB Awards show -- the highest single-season total for the club in the six seasons All-MLB teams have been named.

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

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MLB’s best hitters were feted Tuesday night as the 2024 Silver Slugger Award winners were announced on MLB Network. The hitting hardware, which is voted on by Major League managers and coaches, is given to the top offensive player at each position in each league. That includes three outfielders (regardless

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres have two finalists for the Baseball Writers’ Association of America awards, which will be unveiled later this month. Center fielder Jackson Merrill is a contender for the National League Rookie of the Year Award, along with Milwaukee outfielder Jackson Chourio and Pittsburgh pitcher Paul Skenes.

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

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

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres and pitching coach Ruben Niebla have finalized a multiyear contract to keep Niebla in San Diego, sources told MLB.com on Friday. The club has not yet announced the deal, which was first reported as being final by the San Diego Union-Tribune. The Padres typically prefer

The World Series is over, the Hot Stove is warming up and there are pumpkins and turkeys everywhere you look. Every team’s roster is in a bit of flux, but we still have an idea of what they might look like, what they might be trying to add, and what