Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The Chicago Cubs and Jim Hendry made a few noticeable roster moves Tuesday. The North Siders activated closer Kerry Wood from the disabled list and designated reliever Scott Eyre for assignment. Eyre was 2-0 on the year with a 7.15 ERA. The chances of his placement on the roster became questionable of late as the young [...]
The Cub Reporter (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the Cubs designating Scott Eyre for assignment, Jim Hendry has to be busy working the phone to try to make some sort of deal. Wait, I thought the trade deadline already passed!!! It did, sort of. You see, there really is no “trade deadline”. You can make a trade any day of the year. [...]
Market Power (Free subscription) | yesterday
... because people don't have respect for it. ''I'm not trying to put this on [Cubs general manager] Jim Hendry or anything like that, but whoever is in charge of the Cubs and their operations here -- if it was me, when the tornado sirens went off the first time, I would have immediately said we're not playing this game. These games are important because teams are trying to make the playoffs,...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... from Oakland and the emergence of Jeff Samardzija made him expendable.
General manager Jim Hendry said Eyre cleared trade waivers, leaving the club seven days to make a deal.
"I think he still has the ability to help a ballclub," Hendry said.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... of from Oakland and the emergence of Jeff Samardzija made him expendable.General manager Jim Hendry said Eyre cleared trade waivers, leaving the club seven days to make a deal."I think he still has the ability to help a ballclub," Hendry said.
AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The Cubs will have an interesting decision to make when Wood returns. They have three lefties in the pen: Neal Cotts, Scott Eyre and Sean Marshall. Piniella has never warmed to Eyre, and it's likely general manager Jim Hendry has talked trade. If the Cubs don't trade Eyre or designate him for assignment, they could send one of the other lefties to the minor leagues.
AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... to a close with one out in the bottom of the eighth."It's the umpire's call," Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said of resuming the game. "We have no control over it after the first pitch."To think: When threw that first pitch, the sun was out, the temperature was a tolerable 78 degrees and the wind was blowing in at a docile 8 m.p.h.Then, appropriately enough for '70s Night, the entire evening...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Soriano thinks earlier moves were enough Cubs players were not upset that general manager Jim Hendry did not make any moves just before Thursday's non-waiver trading deadline.
netZoo (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Manny Ramirez became a Dodger, Ken Griffey, Jr. became a White Sox, and the Chicago Cubs completed a four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers all within a matter of a long lunch today. The sweep was the perfect punctuation to a few key acquisitions made by Jim Hendry, weeks before today’s trade deadline. Jim Edmonds [...] ShareThis
