Guzman, Wood news?

[killthegoat06]

I hope Woody makes it back to at least make a couple of relief appearances by the end of the year. As I'm sure this is his last shot with the Cubs.

 

Will anyone pick him up after this year?

[badger1679666666]

I hope Woody makes it back to at least make a couple of relief appearances by the end of the year. As I'm sure this is his last shot with the Cubs.

 

Will anyone pick him up after this year?

 

For a Million? I would. Guys with his talent come around once in while. Shoot, I'd rather have him for a million for July August and September than fatty mceyre for 25 dollars for the whole year.

[cubsfan5150]

So did Woody throw off of the mound today or not? I haven't seen anything that says either way.

[CubColtPacer]

Yes, he did yesterday.

 

Kerry Wood threw off the mound on Tuesday before the rains hit Wrigley Field, and all went well.

 

Wood, rehabbing from tendinitis in his right shoulder, threw 18 pitches off the mound.

 

"So far, so good," he said.

 

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070627&content_id=2052202&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

[Elrhino]

Getting kind of antsy about Guzman. They claim its no big deal, but he's now had over 3 weeks of rest without any report.

[CubColtPacer]

Getting kind of antsy about Guzman. They claim its no big deal, but he's now had over 3 weeks of rest without any report.

 

Guzman is throwing in Mesa. He'll go on a rehab assignment to Iowa when he is cleared by the medical staff. It was reported in an article I read a day or two ago, but I cannot remember which one.

[YearofDaCubs]

Guzman didn't have surgery right? This is from Rotoworld:

 

The Cubs were discussing removing Ryan Dempster from the closer's role in May, but the plan was scrapped when their preferred replacement, Angel Guzman, was lost to the disabled list. Now, Dempster himself is on the disabled list with a strained left oblique and won't be back until after the All-Star break. It'd be a natural opportunity for Guzman to step in, but he's still recovering from surgery and is at least a month away.

[Sarcastic]

Guzman didn't have surgery right? This is from Rotoworld:

 

The Cubs were discussing removing Ryan Dempster from the closer's role in May, but the plan was scrapped when their preferred replacement, Angel Guzman, was lost to the disabled list. Now, Dempster himself is on the disabled list with a strained left oblique and won't be back until after the All-Star break. It'd be a natural opportunity for Guzman to step in, but he's still recovering from surgery and is at least a month away.

 

I never heard about it. I think they probably just mixed up their facs on that one.

[Amazing_Grace]

i don't even consider wood a member of the cubs any more

 

Who is this "Wood" person you guys are speaking of?

[otis89]

i don't even consider wood a member of the cubs any more

 

Who is this "Wood" person you guys are speaking of?

 

Remember? He's that guy that was good in 1998 and 2003 and helped the Cubs reach the playoffs. I always wondered what happened to him.

[Amazing_Grace]

i don't even consider wood a member of the cubs any more

 

Who is this "Wood" person you guys are speaking of?

 

Remember? He's that guy that was good in 1998 and 2003 and helped the Cubs reach the playoffs. I always wondered what happened to him.

 

Oh, him. Is he still on the team? I thought he had taken a job as a crab fisherman or ice road trucker or something like that.

[PackLandVA]

I saw today an article in one of the very small local papers that he put his home up for sale here in Chicago. Apparently, it's a pretty small home, very old (100+ years) and only about 1500 square feet. Of course, he still has the 7500 square foot home outside of Phoenix.

 

I can't decide if the Cubs should just completely cut ties with him, or if they should try to get him to sign another low contract. I would love to see him be able to contribute for the Cubs one day. Pipe dream, maybe.

[Illini Iceman]

Guzman didn't have surgery right? This is from Rotoworld:

 

The Cubs were discussing removing Ryan Dempster from the closer's role in May, but the plan was scrapped when their preferred replacement, Angel Guzman, was lost to the disabled list. Now, Dempster himself is on the disabled list with a strained left oblique and won't be back until after the All-Star break. It'd be a natural opportunity for Guzman to step in, but he's still recovering from surgery and is at least a month away.

 

I never heard about it. I think they probably just mixed up their facs on that one.

 

Angel Guzman, rehabbing at Triple-A Iowa from a strained elbow, was close to throwing off the mound. He was expected to begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Iowa when he gets clearance

 

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070627&content_id=2052202&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

[Balsa]

The sooner Guzman gets back the better.

[Guest]

Angel Guzman, rehabbing at Triple-A Iowa from a strained elbow, was close to throwing off the mound. He was expected to begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Iowa when he gets clearance

 

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070627&content_id=2052202&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

 

Hrm, I find it intersting that he's rehabbing in Iowa and not Mesa.

[Bull]

i don't even consider wood a member of the cubs any more

 

Who is this "Wood" person you guys are speaking of?

 

Remember? He's that guy that was good in 1998 and 2003 and helped the Cubs reach the playoffs. I always wondered what happened to him.

 

Oh, him. Is he still on the team? I thought he had taken a job as a crab fisherman or ice road trucker or something like that.

Steve Stone says: used car salesman

[SaorsaDaonnan]

I saw today an article in one of the very small local papers that he put his home up for sale here in Chicago. Apparently, it's a pretty small home, very old (100+ years) and only about 1500 square feet. Of course, he still has the 7500 square foot home outside of Phoenix.

 

I can't decide if the Cubs should just completely cut ties with him, or if they should try to get him to sign another low contract. I would love to see him be able to contribute for the Cubs one day. Pipe dream, maybe.

 

 

It would be a mistake to conclude from this that Kerry and Sarah do not intend to spend significant time in the Chicago area in the future, and even if we knew that they did not have plans to stick around it would be impossible to infer from that that Kerry will not be with the Cubs next year.

 

On its own, the datum you mention is compatible with many possible cases. It is possible, for instance, that the Woods are moving to another home in the Chicago area for any of a variety of reasons: their current home is starting seem like it will not be large enough as their child (Justin Dean, born '06, according to wikipedia) gets older, another child might be on the way, they are beginning to feel that too many people know where they live, they would like a newer home requiring less maintenance (Lou was quoted in several papers as saying that their home flooded a couple of days ago), or any of a million other reasons having more to do with normal human life than with the status of Kerry's baseball career. And, even if it were somehow clear that this decision represents an expectation on the part of the Woods to be with another team or out of baseball entirely, it is not obvious that that expectation would be their preference. Needless to say, it is also very possible for preferences of this type to change over time, so that even someone willing to believe that the potential sale of the home licenses speculation that the Woods plan to leave Chicago would still have to grant that the predictive power of a current intention of that sort is questionable. If they did expect to relocate, any number of possible reasons might be responsible for their plan: an expectation that the Cubs will not offer a contract next year, a plan for Kerry to retire at the end of the year if he makes no progress this season, ect. Expectations of the type I just listed are contingent upon future conditions which may or may not come to pass: no one knows how the rest of the season will go, how the Cubs front office will feel about Wood this offseason (not least because there is a chance that different personnel will inhabit it), nor how frustrated Kerry will feel. Far too many circumstances are involved: the situation is impossible to model.

 

So, to conclude from the fact that the Wood's current residence has been placed on market that the Woods will not be affiliated with the Cubs next season would not be a responsible inference, and it would not be particularly compelling to learn even that the Woods do not expect to be in Chicagoland next year. Although it is not unreasonable to wonder about Wood's future, this "news item" does not make a substantial contribution to our understanding of the situation. I end with a brief discussion of an example: Nomar Garciaparra in 2005. As the 05 season wore on and fans began to wonder more urgently about whether Nomar would stay, it was reported in several local papers (pioneer press, if I recall) that Nomar was building a house in the Winnetka/Wilmette area. At the time, several fans insisted that this constitued inside knowledge about whether Garciaparra would stay. They were quite incorrect.