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Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the Monday-through-Sunday schedule and offers helpful tips for Week 8 of the fantasy baseball season, noting that Johnny Cueto and Matt Garza are both returning from the DL in time for two-start weeks.

Baseball is witnessing the most competitive balance in more than two decades. As a result, general managers of contending teams already are preparing and targeting potential trade partners for the July 31 trade deadline. All the same, non-contenders ...

Blog | April 10, 2013

Stephania Bell has quick hits on a number of injured players heading into the start of the season.

Chicago Cubs pitcher Matt Garza said he felt "OK" after throwing from 60 feet on Thursday as he recovers from a strained left lat.

San Francisco catcher Buster Posey, Atlanta outfielder Jason Heyward and Boston outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury are among 133 players who have filed for salary arbitration.

Stephania Bell discusses the injury statuses of a number of star players and whether they're worth trusting down the stretch.

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs were dealt a serious setback when pitcher Matt Garza came out of a July 22 start complaining of cramps in his upper arm. Garza was the best trading chip the Cubs had to offer at the deadline, with the Toronto Blue Jays,...

Sources: The Rangers and Blue Jays are showing interest in Matt Garza.

CHICAGO -- The list of scouts in attendance at Chicago Cubs games continues to grow as baseball's July 31 trade deadline approaches. While many reports have the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves emerging at the leading contenders to land th...

CHICAGO -- Like his teammate Ryan Dempster, Chicago Cubs starter Matt Garza saved his best outing since April for some of baseball's top talent evaluators to watch during Sunday's 3-1 win over Arizona. The Cubs have talented starting pitching to t...

Ryan Dempster's six scoreless innings for the Chicago Cubs on Saturday were probably his last with the team, because now is the best time to trade him. Dempster is healthy now, after being on the disabled list earlier this year, and if the Cubs ...

Blog | July 15, 2012

Ryan Dempster is pitching better than he has at any point this season, piling up scoreless innings, and Buster Olney writes that now is the time for the Cubs to trade him. That would also open up the market for Matt Garza later this month.

Blog | Conversation | July 15, 2012

Francisco Liriano has thrown a no-hitter, been an All-Star and during the 2006 season had one of the most dominant three months of starts in the past decade. He's pitched in two postseasons and averaged a strikeout per inning in his career. B...

Blog | June 27, 2012

Matt Garza is viewed as arguably the best prize among starting pitchers at the trade deadline, but there's another name who could draw some interest: Francisco Liriano. As Buster Olney writes, Liriano's recent success has his trade value climbing.

Blog | Conversation | June 27, 2012

The hiring of Theo Epstein as club president marked a new era for the Chicago Cubs, but there was no chance that the change would manifest itself in the standings this year, and there is little chance that it will change anything next year. The Cu...

Blog | May 22, 2012

Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at pitchers who have made some adjustments from last season to this season and how it's affecting their numbers.