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One of the points that was made. Try to keep up.

 

Anyway, Kerry Wood is much better over his career than Kevin Gregg. And none of this "we can't afford him" crap. Take away Gregg's contract and the Miles signing, offer that to Wood in arbitration, and he said he would have taken it. We're a better team for it.

 

That still wouldn't have been enough money to sign Wood in arbitration. You'd have to find another 4-5 million somewhere (plus another 400,000 for the minimum salary player you're using instead of Miles).

 

And of course there's the problem that Wood has been worse than Gregg this year, and it hasn't been because of dribblers (the main two problems are a much higher HR rate and a much higher walk rate).

 

What's the minimum amount we could have offered him in arbitration? I'm not saying it would have signed him, but according to him he wanted to stay here, so I'm assuming we would have gotten a hometown discount.

 

Why would Wood give a hometown discount after he already accepted arbitration?

 

If Wood had wanted to accept just anything (and the Cubs could have given him a lesser contract outside of the arbitration process) the Cubs probably would have signed him. If for example Wood was willing to accept a deal very similar to the one he got in 08, the Cubs would have probably been happy to bring him back after his successful season in 08. The fact that they didn't suggests that he wasn't quite that willing to do anything for the club.

[erik316wttn]

One of the points that was made. Try to keep up.

 

Anyway, Kerry Wood is much better over his career than Kevin Gregg. And none of this "we can't afford him" crap. Take away Gregg's contract and the Miles signing, offer that to Wood in arbitration, and he said he would have taken it. We're a better team for it.

 

That still wouldn't have been enough money to sign Wood in arbitration. You'd have to find another 4-5 million somewhere (plus another 400,000 for the minimum salary player you're using instead of Miles).

 

And of course there's the problem that Wood has been worse than Gregg this year, and it hasn't been because of dribblers (the main two problems are a much higher HR rate and a much higher walk rate).

 

What's the minimum amount we could have offered him in arbitration? I'm not saying it would have signed him, but according to him he wanted to stay here, so I'm assuming we would have gotten a hometown discount.

 

Why would Wood give a hometown discount after he already accepted arbitration?

 

If Wood had wanted to accept just anything (and the Cubs could have given him a lesser contract outside of the arbitration process) the Cubs probably would have signed him. If for example Wood was willing to accept a deal very similar to the one he got in 08, the Cubs would have probably been happy to bring him back after his successful season in 08. The fact that they didn't suggests that he wasn't quite that willing to do anything for the club.

 

You could be right. I was just taking Kerry at his word that he really wanted to stay here.

 

We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, I guess.

[Fred Hornkohl]

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