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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

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Yan Gomes

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Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Kerry Wood is Officially an Ex-Cub

Submitted by Cubnut on

Kerry Wood passed his physical with the Cleveland Indians and has signed a 2-year/$20 million contract with an option for a third year based on "a vesting mechanism."

As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer...

Wood, 6-5, 211 pounds, lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife Sarah and their two children. It's believed that the Indians moving their spring training facility from Winter Haven, Fla., to Goodyear, Ariz., this year played a part in Wood coming to Cleveland.

GM Mark Shapiro also added right-hander Joe Smith earlier this week at the winter meetings to pitch in front of Wood in the pen. Smith was acquired in a three-team, 12-player trade with the Mets and Mariners.

"The signing of Kerry Wood brings to the Cleveland Indians a powerful presence in the back of our bullpen and in our clubhouse," Shapiro said. "Kerry fills our need for a closer and fits our team's culture perfectly as he is a dominant talent and an outstanding teammate and person."

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Comments

Submitted by WISCGRAD on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 12:25 pm

My feeling is I prefer, in order: 1) Cubs win the WS with the players that I like 2) Cubs win the WS 3) Players I like win the WS elsewhere So I'd rather the Cubs win with Wood, but if we win without him I'll be happy. And if neither of those can occur, it would be great to see Wood win with the Indians. I was thrilled to see Grace leadoff the 9th with a hit off of Rivera and end up finally winning with the D-Backs. So maybe Wood will have an equally good experience after parting ways with the Cubs.

Submitted by Rob G. on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 12:06 pm

rotoworld says deal is for $20.5 M with an $11M third year team option that is automatic if he finishes 55 games in either of the next 2 years.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 12:31 pm

and so goes the last of the "piss on my hands" legacy cubs players. at least kerry "i can't stop now" wood isn't pissing on buildings anymore.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 12:21 am

Submitted by carlosrubi on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 3:28pm.

Just "finishes"? If so, the deal is basically a three year deal -- for instance, in a year in which Wood lost a month's worth of games, he finished 56 games.

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CARLOS: Incentive-performance bonuses can't be tied to statistics like saves, wins, K, ERA, or WHIP, et al for pitchers, or BA, SLG, OBP, HR, RBI, SB, Fielding %, et al for position players.

The bonuses have to be for things like days spent on the active roster (25-man roster), All-Star Game selection, awards like MVP, Cy Young, or Rolaids Relief, and pitching stats like appearances, innings pitched, games started, and/or games finished, and it's games, games started, and/or plate appearances for position players.

Submitted by Arizona Phil on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:23 am

Submitted by CPH2133 on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 8:46pm.

So Kerry's stipulation of "games finished" implies he must pitch the final out of the game, regardless of it being a save situation or not i assume?

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CPH2133: The last relief pitcher who is on the mound for a club gets "credit" for the Game Finished (GF) for that team for that game, no matter whether the team wins or loses, even if the pitcher can't get an out in the bottom of the 9th and blows a 10-run lead. So there is a "GF" for every game of the season for every club except a game where the starting pitcher throws a Complete Game. (A starting pitcher who throws a Complete Game gets credit for a "CG" but not for a "GF").

Last year, the Cubs had 159 GF as a team, with the three missing "GF" the result of one game being rained out that was not made up, and two "CG" (Dempster had one, and of course Zambrano threw a no-hitter). Kerry Wood appeared in 65 games in 2008, had 40 Save Opportunities and converted 34 (85%), but he also had 56 GF (Howry was second on the team in GF with 27, Marmol had 22, Wuertz had 13, and Lieber and Cotts had seven a piece).

Since Saves and/or Save Conversion % (as well as ERA, WHIP, and K) can't be used to qualify a pitcher for a performance bonus, a "Game Finished" (GF) is the closest stat that can be applied to closers for that purpose. But otherwise "Game Finished" is a pretty meaningless statistic.

Recent comments

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

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