But alas,....the Cubs pulled them back.

I guess they have to keep fighting for that all important 3rd or 4th place in the division.

[heard this on WSCR update this am]

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I would have kept Wood but push Reed out the fucking door. Brett Jackson is ready and needs somewhere to play.

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If a player is claimed they have 3 options:

1) pull the player back
2) let the claiming team have the player with zero compensation
3) trade the player to the claiming team. (I believe they have 48 hours to do so)

With a player like Wood and Johnson a team claiming them is the worst case scenario.

Does Wood have a no-trade clause? He signed a below-value contract last year since he wanted to be on the Cubs.

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What do you think the intention is? If they cleared waivers....then try and trade them? I know Soriano cleared waivers, but "ain't" nobody dumb enough to claim/trade for him.

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Every player gets put on waivers in august. It's a way for teams to gauge interest and file it away for future use. I'm sure the Cubs hoped both those players made it through waivers so they would be able to trade them to any team. Hendry definitely dropped the ball not trading Johnson (and others) at the July 31 deadline.

But even more damning, is that Hendry didn't trade him again after he was claimed.

yeah the reed johnson thing is !!!@$#!@ cuz if you can get ANYTHING for a guy who's inexplicably hitting .340+ in his mid-30s, then you have to go do that.

with kerry wood it's a bit different, seeing as he was willing to stay here for like $1m/year before Hendry told him to go and get one more nice big contract for him and his family because the Cubs weren't going to pay him shit... and then he STILL wanted to stay here.

now he's back on the cheap and he's got the cub-for-life (except for when he got that !@#! 2yr/$20mil contract from cleveland) thing going, he's made $70mil b4 taxes throughout his career, so I think he's going to hang out here and replace Ron Santo as the de-facto mascot for this post-sandberg generation that grew up with cherished memories of the 90s/00s cubs.

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The man is batting .352 ! Leading the majors in hitting, if 170 AB's was considered qualifying!

Compensatory pick?

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Hmm I didn't think of that. I mean, in no way does Reed Johnson strike me as a Class A free agent but if he ends up leading the NL in batting, shit, if he's a class A free agent and you can get a draft pick in that sandwich round between 1-2, then yeah you'd definitely hold on to him.

So who knows what it takes to designate a free agent as Class A/B?

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He currently does not qualify and he has to jump 7 players to reach type B status which isn't out of the question considering Q-Bert keeps running him out there to get to that magic 70 total.

The claiming team may not have offered anything for him. They can just claim him, (as Kenny Williams did with Alex Rios) hoping the Cubs do not pull him back and then assume the remainder of the contract. In the case of each player here, they are making little money and have performed fairly well, so losing them would weaken the team with no benefit. If the claiming team offered a low end prospect with little chance of ever making it to the majors, it's basically the same. No sense in taking crap like they got in the Fukadome deal (according to scouts neither is a good prospect). So I see no reason to lament the fact that neither has been dealt, unless a report comes out that they were offered a prospect with real promise and turned it down.

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wood is the classic example what is wrong with this organization, never should have been signed here..marmol and marshall are getting over worked while this bum sits on his ass.

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dont know why, but the image of Kerry being a bumb is just hilarious to me

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