According to SI's Jon Heyman, the Yankees were the team that put a claim on the Cubs' Carlos Pena.

The Yanks are plenty familiar with Pena from his days as the Rays' starting first baseman and could look to make a deal if they view him as an upgrade at DH. Pena, 33, has tallied 23 home runs and 67 RBI in 124 games this year. He's on a one-year, $10 million contract with Chicago.

According to Buster Olney of ESPN.com, Carlos Pena was claimed off waivers by an unknown team.

The claiming team has 48 hours to work out a trade with the Cubs. Pena, 33, currently projects as a Type B free agent this winter.

Carlos Pena has been placed on waivers.

The Cubs did not trade the impending free agent slugger at July's non-waiver deadline and seem unlikely to work out a deal here in August. Unless the right team is able to claim him, Pena should remain in Chicago.

Carlos Pena is not in the Cubs' Friday afternoon lineup against the Cardinals.

With St. Louis sending southpaw Jaime Garcia to the hill, lefty-masher Jeff Baker will start in Pena's place. He'll be back in the lineup on Saturday.

Carlos Pena would like to return to the Cubs next season.

The Cubs will go hard after Prince Fielder, but could turn to Pena if they lose out on the sweepstakes. Pena has hit .224/.338/.445 with 20 home runs and 51 RBI through 101 games this year while playing above-average defense. He may command a multi-year this offseason, and it remains to be seen if Chicago will be willing to make a longterm commitment.

The Cubs are informing teams that they will not trade Carlos Pena before the trade deadline, according to ESPN.com's Buster Olney.

If true, we find this rather curious. Pena, who signed a one-year, $10 million contract over the winter, isn't of much use to the floundering Cubs at the moment when they could potentially reel in a prospect for him. The 33-year-old has hit .224/.338/.445 with 20 home runs and 51 RBI through 101 games this year. Re-upping Pena over the winter would obviously rule out the Cubs from going after impending marquee free agents Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder.

SI.com's Jon Heyman reports that Cubs first baseman Carlos Pena "will almost surely be moved."

The Diamondbacks have been craving consistent production at first base all season and could put together an offer. Pena, 33, has hit .221/.334/.445 with 20 home runs and 51 RBI through 97 games this year. He inked a one-year, $10 million free agent contract with Chicago over the winter.

Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times writes that there is a "growing sense" that the Cubs are considering bringing back Carlos Pena for next season.

Pena, who signed a one-year, $10 million contract over the winter, could draw interest from teams at the trade deadline, and the Cubs will certainly listen. But, they could be inclined to hang on to him and re-sign him to a new deal. Re-upping with Pena would obviously rule out the Cubs in going after impending marquee free agents Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder.

Carlos Pena went 3-for-3 with a home run and two RBI in Chicago's 6-1 win over the Phillies on Monday.

The three-hit night was just Pena's third in 92 games this season. However, he's now up to 20 home runs, and more or less providing the Cubs with what they should have expected when they signed him to a $10 million deal last offseason.

Carlos Pena belted his 19th homer in Thursday's comeback win over the Nationals.

It was his only hit in five trips to the plate, but Pena's blast in the seventh knotted the score at 8-8 after the Nats had jumped out to an 8-0 lead. After not going deep a single time in April, Pena how has 19 longballs since May 3.

Carlos Pena hit a two-run homer in Chicago's 5-4 loss to the Nationals on Wednesday.

The bomb was Pena's first in nine games after he went on a home run binge in mid-June. For the season, he has now gone deep 18 times while driving in 46 runs. Through 84 games, he is sporting a .225/.343/.461 triple slash.

Carlos Pena went 3-for-4 and hit his first triple since 2009 against the Nationals on Monday.

It was Pena's 21st career triple. It's kind of hard to believe now, but he actually had six one year with the Tigers.

Carlos Pena hit a pair of homers Monday versus the Rockies, giving him nine bombs in June.

Pena went homerless in April, but he has 16 homers for the season despite his late start. For the season, 30 percent of his 53 hits have left the yard.

Carlos Pena hit his 14th home run in the Cubs loss to the White Sox on Wednesday.

On a night where Pena went 1-for-5, he tagged Jake Peavy for a solo shot in the sixth inning. After hitting .258 in May, Pena is batting just .227 in June, sagging his season average to .220. Of course, that's 24 points better than he hit in 2010.

Carlos Pena's three-run homer in the sixth inning gave the Cubs a lead they would not relinquish, as they set down the White Sox 6-3 on Monday.

It was Pena's third home run in five games, giving him 12 on the season. He is now hitting .220/.354/.421, and if recent history is any indication, he is not likely to deviate too far from this batting line as the season progresses.

Carlos Pena is not in Monday's lineup against the Brewers.

He'll take a seat against the southpaw Randy Wolf. D.J. LeMahieu will make his first professional start at first base in his place.

Carlos Pena has a .900 OPS since the start of May.

Pena also has eight home runs and 21 RBI in that span, which encompasses 31 games. He got off to an awful start this season in Chicago, but it's not too late for the 33-year-old slugger to begin earning his one-year, $10 million contract.

Back in the lineup but batting eighth, Carlos Pena hit his second homer in two days Wednesday off the Dodgers' Ted Lilly.

Pena almost surely would have sat against the southpaw today if not for last night's homer, but he got the start and went deep again. The Cubs will hope it carries over into the weekend after their off day Thursday.

Carlos Pena hit his first homer as a Cub in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Dodgers.

Pena's homer was the Cubs' only run through eight innings. They scored three times in the ninth off Jonathan Broxton and Blake Hawksworth to break a tie and improve to 13-16 on the season. Pena entered the night hitting .157 with just one extra-base hit (a double) in 70 at-bats. The plan likely was for him to sit Wednesday against left-hander Ted Lilly, but maybe the homer will change that.

Carlos Pena went 0-for-4 on Monday, dropping his average to .157.

Pena was starting a second game in a row after driving in a run Sunday. We imagine he'll start Tuesday, too, since the alternative is three straight days off. The Cubs won't want to play him against Ted Lilly on Wednesday and they have an off day Thursday.