John Grabow News

We're right in the thick of Major League Baseball's free agency period. Already John Grabow has stolen a heavy contract from the Cubs, Billy Wagner will join his third National League East team in Atlanta, and Placido Polanco rejoins the Phillies after a stint in Detroit, Cleveland, and Tampa, as well as the White Sox and Royals have already ...

Center fielder: Lou Piniella wants to move Kosuke Fukudome back to right field, which creates an opening in center.

When Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry re-signed left-handed reliever John Grabow to a two-year extension last month, he removed the Cubs from the hunt for free agent southpaw Billy Wagner.

With things so quiet on the trade front, you have to assume that the winter meetings will start the momentum of the offseason going - someone will overpay for a reliever that had a career year or a position player that was great two years ago but has been injured since.

The Nationals say No. 1 draft pick Stephen Strasburg has a dislocation in his left knee joint and should be fine for spring training.

There is usually at least one big-ticket free agent who signs before Thanksgiving.

It appears Hendry has completed GMDirective.2 - John Grabow will not enjoy the passionate rush of unbridled free agency, for he is a Cub through 2011 .

There is always talk amongst baseball fans and writers regarding who the worst general manager in baseball is.

When it comes down to numbers, right-handed pitchers have an easier go of it in Major League Baseball.

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

Posted by Christopher Glotfelty Looking to secure a solid bullpen that withered under pressure during the regular season, the Cubs have re-signed John Grabow to a two-year, $7.5 million deal.

Pitcher John Grabow became the first of the 171 free agents to reach agreement on a new deal, getting a $7.5 million, two-year contract yesterday from the Chicago Cubs.

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.

John Grabow can laugh his way to the bank. According to the Chicago Sun-Times , Grabow and the Cubs have agreed on a two-year contract extension worth at least $7 million dollars, and Grabow is considered an option to take over the closer's role if Carlos Marmol's control issues cannot resolve themselves.

The Cubs traded reliever Aaron Heilman to the Diamondbacks on Thursday for two minor-league prospects while closing in on a two-year deal with John Grabow.

The Cubs and free-agent left-hander John Grabow are close to agreeing on a two-year deal, ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine reported on Wednesday.

John Grabow filed for free agency on Monday, but the Cubs have had talks with his agent in an effort to bring the left-handed reliever back.

Forty-six-year-old left-hander Randy Johnson filed for free agency Monday, raising the number of baseball free agents to 174.

Another potential free agent was struck from the list on Monday, with two others possibly right behind.

Jim Hendry said he considers the just concluded general managers meetings at the O'Hare Hilton fruitful and said that the abbreviated format seemed to encourage even more dialogue between GMs than the usual spread-out, longer sets of meetings in the past.