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Matt Garza Likely Staying Put

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | July 27, 2012 at 11:45am CDT

Matt Garza won’t start before Tuesday’s non-waiver trade deadline, so the chances of a midseason deal involving the right-hander are remote, Bruce Levine of ESPNChicago.com reports (on Twitter). Jim Bowden of ESPN.com and MLB Network Radio notes that Garza might not be traded until the offseason (on Twitter).

An MRI revealed a slight fluid buildup in Garza's triceps area, manager Dale Sveum told reporters, including Doug Padilla of ESPNChicago.com. The Dodgers and Red Sox are among the teams with reported interest in Garza.

The 28-year-old earns $9.5MM this year and will be arbitration eligible one last time in 2013. His contract wouldn't clear waivers, so the Cubs will have to wait until the offseason to consider trades for him, assuming they don't complete a deal before the 31st. Garza has a 3.91 ERA with 8.3 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9 in 103 2/3 innings so far in 2012.

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  1. slyfox1908

    11 years ago

    Will the Cubs make any trades at all?

    Reply
    • Raymond Robert Koenig

      11 years ago

      I believe the Cubs will trade before September 1st.

      Reply
    • Doug Engel

      11 years ago

      They had what seemed to be a good one with Atlanta ready to go, but it fell apart due to no fault of their own. If they’re not being offered anything decent for Dempster, then might as well keep him and give him a qualifying offer for 2013. If he refuses it, then the Cubs get a supplemental draft pick, which will probably be better than any prospect they are offered now. If he accepts, then the Cubs will have a good pitcher to start 2013 and we’ll most likely go through the same song and dance at this time next year.

      As for Garza, he’s under team control beyond this season, so they don’t have to trade him now if they aren’t happy with the offers. A team that thinks they are one pitcher away from contention could probably put together a better package in the off-season than they can right now anyway.

      Reply
      • HT16

        11 years ago

        I would imagine the Cubs are being offered at least supplemental-equivalent prospects for Dempster right now. JA Happ was traded for 2 supplemental draftees (Wojciechowski and Musgrove), so I have a hard time imagining that a) the offer for Dempster is meaningfully less and b) the Cubs are better off with only one 2013 supplemental as compensation vs. a package of prospects offered in a trade (and this assumes Dempster actually turns down a 1-year $12 million qualifying offer).

        Reply
  2. orbrewer

    11 years ago

    One less starter. The price for Greinke just went up.

    Reply
  3. Raymond Robert Koenig

    11 years ago

    If the Cubs put him on waivers in August I could see Boston or Toronto being interested.

    Reply
    • sdsuphilip

      11 years ago

      Plenty of teams will be interested, in fact probably one of bad teams will claim him, Cubs lose leverage tho because they will only be able to negotiate with one team.

      Reply
    • Jared Webb

      11 years ago

      Yep, teams will pick him up simply to block him being traded to competition

      Reply
  4. danistheguy

    11 years ago

    Good. Stay out of the AL East because the O’s sure as heck weren’t going to get him.

    Reply
  5. miggymigs

    11 years ago

    Oh well if Garza stays, so be it. It’s not like the Cubs were going anywhere this year. Hopefully they don’t trade Dempster and just make him a qualifying offer at the end of the season and pick up a draft pick when he signs with another team. His days with the Cubs are OVA!

    Reply
  6. LazerTown

    11 years ago

    Man, I was hoping to see a big package of prospects leave the AL East.

    Reply
  7. sourbob

    11 years ago

    I could deal with this if Dempster hadn’t jammed it in and broke it off.

    Reply
    • Haywood1

      11 years ago

      After what Dempster did, I would stick him in mop-up middle relief and watch his value as a pitcher drop like a rock. That was pretty short-sighted of him to veto the deal to Atlanta.

      Reply
  8. BitLocker

    11 years ago

    Wow, talk about curse of the billy goat.

    Reply
  9. Shawn Burrell

    11 years ago

    Can he not be traded from the DL?

    Reply
  10. ThinkBlue10

    11 years ago

    Looks like the dodgers won’t be adding (a good) starting pitcher. Great.

    Reply
  11. ThinkBlue10

    11 years ago

    Looks like th dodgers won’t be adding (a good) starting pitcher.

    Reply
  12. baseball52

    11 years ago

    Worst trade deadline ever… Sigh

    Reply
  13. Robert Daeley

    11 years ago

    Cubs attempting to regain a little leverage for the Dempster deal? 🙂

    Reply
    • BlueSkyLA

      11 years ago

      Breaking Garza’s arm was a little desperate.

      Reply
      • Robert Daeley

        11 years ago

        😉

        Reply
  14. the_show

    11 years ago

    Steam must be coming out of Theo’s ears

    Reply
  15. ugotrpk3113

    11 years ago

    Sort of risky move. We’ve already seen Dempster for Delgado almost go down. But losing the rest of this year in his value could decrease the haul in the future.

    Maybe the packages they are seeing aren’t what they expected? They must think they can get more value with 30 teams in the hunt…

    Reply
    • Raymond Robert Koenig

      11 years ago

      Who are the other 2 MLB teams?

      Reply
      • ugotrpk3113

        11 years ago

        Mental cramp. It’s Friday.

        Reply

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