Cubs pickup Hardens 2009 Option

[Gmoney08]

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20081008&content_id=3603579&vkey=pr_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

 

Hope this went his shoulder exam went well.

[C.C.]

The score reported that as well. btw - a mod needs to movie this in Transactions.

[Schwarber Fan]

Rich Harden will not need surgery on his right shoulder, and the Cubs exercised the $7 million club option on the right-hander for 2009.

 

Harden went 10-2 with a 2.07 ERA for Oakland and the Cubs this season. But a significant decline in his velocity late in the season suggested his shoulder was ailing. Exams today indicated he will not need surgery.

 

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/1209395,harden100808.article

[erik316wttn]

\:D/ \:D/ \:D/ \:D/

[OleMissCub]

sweet

[SouthSideRyan]

Not true til Steve Stone confirms it.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Please Rich, just give us a full, healthy season.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Not true til Steve Stone confirms it.

he's working on scooping the Lee trade

[haubrich91]

Good to know. Would've been terrible if we didn't pick it up.

[DiamondMind]

Not true til Steve Stone confirms it.

this literally made me lol

[Post Count Padder]

Good

[AlwaysaCub]

Good to know. Would've been terrible if we didn't pick it up.

 

He was under our control either way. If we had declined the option we would have gone to arbitration with him. Given his roughly 180 strikeouts in 140 innings Harden would have gotten far more than the 7 million in his contract.

 

The story is his shoulder here, not the contract. It's good his shoulder passed this exam, but a shoulder exam says little about his performance next year. Hopefully we get the Harden we saw right after the trade, not the September Rich.

[Cynosure]

Really nice :thumbsup:

[laurens]

This is awesome. In a few months he has become one of my favorite Cubs.