By Vine Line
The Cubs front office and Chicago media just wrapped up the formal press conference and group interviews with chairman Crane Kenney, general manager Jim Hendry and new outfielder Milton Bradley.
Since many of you have been discussing the Cubs’ recent moves, we wanted to provide some recent comments from Jim Hendry on the off-season plan. First, here are the major additions and losses during the 2008–09…
Jim Hendry just spoke to the media to announce that the Cubs have re-signed right-hander Ryan Dempster to a four-year contract. We’ll be talking to Demp around 3 p.m. today.
There’s no slowing down in baseball’s off-season: General manager Jim Hendry has been working the phone for a couple weeks coming out of the team’s organizational meetings, and he made his first major move today by picking up…
While pitchers were practicing pickoffs and taking fielding practice at the start of this afternoon’s workout, general manager Jim Hendry announced that the club had picked up the 2010 option on Lou Piniella’s contract. The deal, signed in…
On being given leeway to make trades: “[The media] asked me in spring training would we be able to make any deals in July, and the word from above has never been that we won’t be able to contend.”
I just got out of the press conference with Jim Hendry; quotes to follow.
The Cubs this afternoon acquired RHP Rich Harden and RHP Chad Gaudin from the Athletics. In exchange, Oakland got RHP Sean Gallagher, OF Matt…