Mike Axisa

1 week ago | cbssports.com | Mike Axisa

Miguel Cabrera's playing career is not over just yet. On Friday, Tigres de Aragua of the Venezuela Professional Baseball League announced Cabrera will join the team as an active player for the 2025-26 season. LVBP is a winter league that plays a 68-game season spanning October to January each year.

1 week ago | cbssports.com | Byron Buxton |Mike Axisa

The Minnesota Twins have activated shortstop Carlos Correa off the 7-day concussion list, the team announced Friday. Correa missed the minimum of seven days after suffering the injury in a head-to-head collision with center fielder Byron Buxton last Thursday. Buxton is making progress with the recovery from his concussion, but has not yet returned to the lineup.

1 week ago | cbssports.com | Mike Axisa |R.J. Anderson

With Thursday night's rain-delayed loss to the Milwaukee Brewers (MIL 8, PIT 5), the Pittsburgh Pirates are 17-34 this season, and on pace to win 54 games. They have to go 59-52 the rest of the way just to match last year's 76-86 record, which isn't even good! Needless to say, the first two months of 2025 have been a colossal disappointment for the Pirates. Pittsburgh is 3-7 when Paul Skenes starts this year, even though he has a 2.44 ERA and is averaging 6.2 innings per start.

1 week ago | cbssports.com | Mike Axisa

A National League Championship Series rematch is on deck this weekend. The New York Mets will host the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers for three games at Citi Field beginning Friday. The Dodgers beat the Mets in six games in last year's NLCS. Los Angeles scored 46 runs in the six games, a record for an NL team in a single postseason series. "They're a good team. We're a good team, too," Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said earlier this week (via SNY). "We'll be ready for them.

1 week ago | cbssports.com | Mike Axisa

Washington Nationals' Keibert Ruiz is a young veteran, a soon-to-be 27-year-old catcher in his fourth full MLB season. And yet, not until Thursday night was he able to play a big league game in front of his parents, who were able to make the trip from Venezuela to see him play in person for the first time. Ruiz delivered, of course, roping an RBI double off the wall in right in his team's walk-off win over the Atlanta Braves (WAS 8, ATL 7 in 10 innings).