Hendry: Harden Was A Non Story

Jim Hendry has had enough of the chattiness around the waiver process, thank you very much: "It was the biggest non-story of that big of magnitude," Hendry said. "We always run everyone through what we call 'trade waivers.' Everyone in Major League Baseball usually runs their whole team through in August. We had 12 people claimed over the course of the month, and for whatever reason, two names (Harden and Aaron Heilman) were made public. "It's not something I would ever discuss- possible trades, or were we close, or names here or there. But I can tell you, we never really gave it any substantive thought, because we certainly would never give up unless we were out of it. If we were 15 back, obviously you might have looked at things a little differently with other people who were never mentioned in the press. "It's just the way the world is now. So of the 12 that were claimed, two were stories and 10 had the same results as those two." Hendry said he wasn't bothered by the rumors, but said if someone in the Cubs organization leaked out the names of players claimed on waivers, "that would be their last day working for me." And that's that.