Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet wins first automated ball-strike challenge of 2025 spring training

Thursday occasioned the first Major League Baseball game of the 2025 season. To be sure, it was an exhibition of the spring-training variety between the Chicago Cubs and reigning-champion Los Angeles Dodgers (CHC-LAD GameTracker), but it’s still actual baseball. Most notably, that game brought us for the first time ever use of the automated ball-strike […]

Pirates add lefty Andrew Heaney on one-year deal to boost pitching depth, per report

Free-agent left-handed starting pitcher Andrew Heaney has agreed to a one-year deal worth $5 million with the Pittsburgh Pirates, according to ESPN’s Alden González. Heaney, 33, was 5-14 with a 4.28 ERA (92 ERA+), 1.25 WHIP and 158 strikeouts against 40 unintentional walks in 160 innings last season for the Rangers, a season worth 0.8 […]