Kerry Wood News

The Indians jumped into the free agent market early last winter. They signed closer Kerry Wood in December at the winter meetings in Las Vegas to a two-year, $20.5 million deal.

Reports are flying out of Arizona, where the Chicago Cubs are having their first winter management meetings with new owner Tom Ricketts, that apparently 2009 hasn't bottomed out just yet.

Castle: Keep Bradley? Cubs look to patch up offense. Move 3,000 miles west to San Francisco.

Wood, however, is not proud of everything associated with his time in Chicago. Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer Cleveland Indians' pitcher Kerry Wood.

Duensing-Blackburn-Pavano-Baker: Worst playoff rotation ever? I ask this not to denigrate the Twins, who I really admire as an organization.

Kevin Towers was fired as general manager of the San Diego Padres, but he doesn't know why.

About six months ago I posted a piece predicting the Cubs would win the World Series.

Count pitcher Randy Wells among the best chapters to a sad Cubs story. Brought up in May to fill in for the injured Carlos Zambrano, Wells outperformed all but one of his rotation counterparts, capping his 12-10 season Saturday in the Cubs' 5-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

It's been a little weird this week for Rich Harden and John Grabow. They are two of the Cubs' four free agents-to-be, and one has already begun talks about returning, while the other is taking a wait-and-see approach.

Cubs starter Randy Wells delivers a pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the Cubs' 5-0 victory Saturday at Wrigley Field.

A.J. Hinch addressed his team for the final time prior to Friday's opener of a three-game series with the Cubs.

Randy Wells vs. Matt Cain Story-lines How impressive has Randy Wells been? Look at the very basic line comparing him with Matt Cain -- probably any team in baseball would take the Giants stud without qualms, but in reality his numbers are no better than Randy's. Perhaps Wells has been even better than we give him credit for.

According to most everything I've read or heard, it seems a foregone conclusion that Rich Harden won't be wearing a Cubs uniform next year.

Growing pains continue to be a recurring theme for young Cubs pitchers, whose on-the-job training eventually may lead to on-the-job ulcers for manager Dusty Baker.

Shawon Dunston wanted to set the record straight. The former Cubs shortstop wasn't trying to stop the sale of the team.

The prelude to the 2008 season was not marked by as much excitement as the '07 season had seen.

What do I mean by the title of this post? Randy Wells comes into tonight's game with 147 innings pitched and a 3.06 ERA.

Way back on June 30, when his Chicago Cubs tenure wasn't seven months old, I said Milton Bradley could be one of baseball's all-time worst free agent signings.

Kerry Wood looked around the Indians' nearly-empty locker room after Saturday's 8-4 loss to Oakland.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, Look for Less Josh Johnson This Month as Marlins Put Pitcher's Future First When Joba Chamberlain entered the Major Leagues in 2007 as a midseason call-up, the Yankees took a cautious approach by ensuring that he did not pitch back-to-back days in relief.