Aaron Heilman News

STARTING PITCHER : The D-backs picked up the $8.5 million option on Brandon Webb's contract for next season filling one of two holes in the rotation, but they still need to acquire a fourth starter to go behind Webb, Dan Haren and Max Scherzer.

Baseball's annual Winter Meetings will take place Dec. 7-10 in Indianapolis, but for the D-backs front office, the work of retooling a 70-92 team has been ongoing for some time now.

The Arizona Diamondbacks made a move to plug one of their most pressing needs when they acquired right-handed reliever Aaron Heilman from the Chicago Cubs last week.

Going into this offseason the Arizona Diamondbacks identified three areas they wanted to address before Spring Training 2010 arrived.

The World Series may still be fresh in your mind, but MLB GMs are already focusing on next season.

John Grabow believed in his new team enough to ignore the free-agent market, and the Cubs believe in the fitness of Grabow's left elbow enough to give the reliever a two-year, $7.5 million contract that was completed Friday.

Give Jim Hendry credit. He doesn't get them all right, but he doesn't get them all wrong, either.

The Cubs took two key steps in shaping their 2010 bullpen Thursday, even as they continue to work and wait on their bigger offseason tasks of trading Milton Bradley and acquiring another outfielder.

The Chicago Cubs took the first concrete steps toward crystallizing their team in 2010 today, trading right-handed pitcher Aaron Heilman and re-signing would-be free agent John Grabow.A Those steps were preliminary, though, and general manager Jim Hendry knows that in order to make more drastic and necessary changes, he must first resolve the ...

The Cubs have eight players who are arbitration-eligible, but trimmed the number they have to give raises to by one on Thursday, trading Aaron Heilman to the Arizona Diamondbacks for two Minor League prospects.

The Cubs changed the course of franchise history three years ago Friday when they signed Alfonso Soriano to an eight-year, $136 million deal.

Reliever Aaron Heilman was acquired Thursday by the Arizona Diamondbacks from the Chicago Cubs for two minor league prospects.

Forward Raffi Torres #14 of the Columbus Blue Jackets skates against the Phoenix Coyotes on October 28, 2009 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

I'm guessing yes : A Cubs offer could be built around 19-year-old shortstop Starlin Castro, who is emerging as one of the top prospects in the minors.

The Ricketts family, Spring Training, Carlos Marmol's backup, and center field and second base options are among the topics in this week's Inbox.

First of all, here's a link that will help us establish a proper frame of reference.

Aaron Heilman was in the enviable position this summer of pitching for the team he grew up rooting for - the Chicago Cubs.

Ryne Sandberg, Jake Fox, Aaron Heilman and an update on the movie, "We Believe" are the topics in this week's Inbox.

Filed: Oct. 4, 2009 It's over. The Cubs ended the 2009 season in a game that pretty much sums up the year: They got some good pitching, someone homered, and in the end, they couldn't come through in the clutch, this time losing 5-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The last time before Friday the Cubs and Diamondbacks played October baseball, the games meant something, the weather was warm and Wrigley Field was rocking.