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The National League's starting catcher (Willson) and designated hitter (William) will join four other sets of brothers who have started an M.L.B. All-Star Game together. When the National League takes [...]

After ending long championship droughts for Boston and Chicago, Epstein plans to take a year off. But the executive will be in demand when he chooses to return. Theo Epstein, [...]

Ross, who helped Chicago to its first World Series title in 108 years in 2016, will replace Joe Maddon, who parted ways with the club after this season. The Chicago [...]

Theo Epstein, the Chicago Cubs' president of baseball operations, said the team would not renew its contract with Maddon, who guided the Cubs to their first championship in 108 years [...]

Major League Baseball and the Chicago Cubs moved to distance themselves from one of their own Tuesday, after the news outlet Splinter published a cache of racist emails sent and [...]

CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell was suspended for 40 games on Wednesday for violating Major League Baseball's joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy. His ex-wife [...]

Major League Baseball placed Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell on administrative leave Friday afternoon after allegations of physical and emotional abuse were made in a blog post linked to his [...]

CHICAGO -- The last time second baseman Daniel Murphy was around so many Mets in Chicago he was one -- trying to beat the Cubs. That was in 2015, when [...]

For the 12½ seasons since he reached the major leagues, Nick Markakis leads all players in the most fundamental category: games. This suits a player whose manager, Brian Snitker, admiringly [...]

WASHINGTON -- Todd Ricketts, a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, is expected to be named the new finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, replacing the casino magnate Steve Wynn, [...]

CHICAGO -- Dusty Baker has managed almost 1,800 games since that fateful night, so many years ago, when ghosts still haunted Wrigley Field and played their cruelest trick. The Chicago [...]

Jon Lester reached the major leagues at 22 years old. For nearly a decade, he has made all his scheduled starts. He almost always plays for good teams and wins [...]

If Manager Joe Girardi's ironclad, by-the-book protocol leaves some Yankees fans gnashing their teeth from time to time, it feels like a security blanket to Aroldis Chapman. Chapman, who recently [...]

Kris Bryant hit a home run to start the Chicago Cubs' scoring in Game 5 of the World Series last month. In Game 6, Bryant did it again. In Game [...]

. Cubs Among Gold Glove Winners First baseman Anthony Rizzo and right fielder Jason Heyward of the World Series champion Chicago Cubs have won Gold Glove Awards, which are presented [...]

In early November 2004, Theo Epstein walked into a small, wood-paneled bar in a South Florida hotel that was hosting baseball's annual general managers' meeting. He proceeded to quietly receive [...]

CHICAGO -- Dig through a public library or the reference shelf of your neighborhood hitting coach, and you might find a relic. Decades before heat maps and swing paths became [...]

CHICAGO -- As fans poured into the Yale Bowl for the 1993 football game with Harvard, a traditional season finale that embodies Ivy League rivalry, a provocative issue of The [...]

CHICAGO -- Aroldis Chapman threw 13 pitches in his World Series debut on Wednesday in Cleveland. The fastest was clocked at 102.5 miles per hour by Major League Baseball's Statcast [...]

CLEVELAND -- It was not until last week that Kyle Schwarber realized he might be able to play in the World Series. He had visited the doctor almost monthly since [...]

CLEVELAND -- This was two decades ago, long before Theo Epstein built the Chicago Cubs into a World Series team. He did not yet know Terry Francona, now his rival [...]

CLEVELAND -- On Monday, a day before the Chicago Cubs were to open the World Series against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field, team officials keenly watched the at-bats of [...]

LOS ANGELES -- A baseball player's relationship with his bat is ... well, it's complicated. It is not unusual to see a player holding the barrel next to his ear, [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The last time Jake Arrieta allowed a hit at Dodger Stadium, in August 2013, he was driven from the game by a sixth-inning double from Nick Punto. [...]

The Chicago Cubs will start Jon Lester, who pitched eight sparkling innings in their playoff opener, in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. The rest of their rotation [...]

Jon Lester will start the Chicago Cubs' playoff opener. Manager Joe Maddon announced that he was going with Lester over Kyle Hendricks and the 2015 National League Cy Young Award [...]

CHICAGO -- Five years ago, Theo Epstein took a job that even his friends called career suicide. A boy genius who had guided the Boston Red Sox to their first [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMost major trades involve some level of pain. A good deal rarely comes without a downside, without something each team will sorely miss. The Yankees traded Aroldis Chapman to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCHICAGO -- Adam Warren is a perpetually patient man. So when Zack Cozart, the first batter Warren faced on Wednesday, smacked a full-count fastball over the ivy-covered wall in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCHICAGO -- When the All-Star rosters were revealed Tuesday night, the biggest winner did not swing a bat, throw a baseball or even wear a particular uniform. His impact [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen the bullpen phone rang in the 15th inning of Tuesday's road game in Cincinnati, Pedro Strop assumed he would start warming up. Strop is a relief pitcher, after [...]

Boston's David Ortiz moved into 20th place on the career home run list, then hit a game-ending double in the 11th inning as the Red Sox beat Houston, 6-5, on [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- Dread had given way to resignation on a late October night at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs, already trailing the Mets by three games to none in [...]

As National League finalists appeared on MLB Network for the Manager of the Year Award announcement on Tuesday night, Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon looked on comfortably from an Italian [...]

The Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs combined for 197 losses in 2011. No National League teams were worse, and by December of that year, both teams would have new [...]

Jorge Soler, the Chicago Cubs' rookie right fielder, did not just have a great division series against the St. Louis Cardinals. He had one of the greatest postseason series in [...]

Come to the Cubs, the miracle worker named Theo Epstein told Jon Lester when they sat down last December to discuss the possibility of reprising what was once a beautiful [...]

The Chicago Cubs will send Jon Lester to the mound for Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night, and Javier Baez will start at shortstop after [...]

CHICAGO -- The name is a beacon for Chicago Cubs fans. It is the elevated train stop closest to Wrigley Field: Addison. That is the name of a street that [...]

Baseball, it seems, is always trying to take records away from Ferdie Schupp. It was with great fanfare that Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs was reported to have set [...]

CHICAGO -- Jake Arrieta does not bend the brim of his Chicago Cubs cap, not even a little. He said he would never change this. ''I don't like the bill [...]

CHICAGO -- Jake Arrieta does not bend the brim of his Chicago Cubs cap, not even a little. He said he would never change this. ''I don't like the bill [...]

Lennie Merullo was honored by the Chicago Cubs at a June 2014 game, throwing out the ceremonial first pitch and leading the crowd in ''Take Me Out to the Ballgame'' [...]

ST. LOUIS -- The first thing Ted Williams told Mike Bryant was that he was late, because he was only 10 minutes early to their practice session. The second thing [...]

The Chicago Cubs have started the season 5-3. Would the addition of a potential superstar slugger perhaps have turned one of those losses into a win? Cubs fans certainly have [...]

Kris Bryant, the consensus top baseball prospect in the country, had a scintillating spring training for the Chicago Cubs. In 44 plate appearances, he hit .425 with nine home runs [...]

The Chicago Cubs reassigned third baseman Kris Bryant to their minor league camp on Monday, as expected. Still, with his outstanding showing at the plate in spring training, the move [...]

Chicago Cubs starter Jon Lester missed his start Saturday against the Seattle Mariners because of a tired arm, but Manager Joe Maddon expects Lester to make his next start in [...]

Jon Lester was picked to start for the Chicago Cubs on opening night, April 5, against the St. Louis Cardinals. Lester signed a six-year, $155 million contract in [...]