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What I don't get... do they really believe he's better than Gaudin is? I mean unbelievable spring and Gaudin was god awful, but this guy's never pitched above A ball and Gaudin's been a proven, solid pitcher in the bigs since 2003, that can start or relieve. That's valuable, especially on our team. He's also just 1 year older than Patton. Like you and Savant said, must be something else we're not aware of because it makes little to no sense to me and I'll be very surprised if we don't end up regretting it for baseball reasons, and it obviously sucks financially too.
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My bet is he didn't want to be DL'd with some trumped up injury, but he would have been ZERO value on this team pitching the way he's pitched since he got hurt last year.
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That's my thoughts also. The Cubs have been unhappy with him since last season's "injury."
Maybe he wasn't keen on the fake DL trip to help the team, and they said fine we will release you.
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Yep. Hendry's never hesitated to invent injuries when needed. Either Gaudin refused to go along or they actually believe something is seriously wrong with him. Nothing Hendry has ever done suggests they'd just cut him when there was another option.