Cubs,Twins Working On Deal For Harden?

Are the Cubs considering trading to Rich Harden to the Twins? Ken Rosenthal thinks so (via MLBTR):The Cubs are more open to dealing Rich Harden to the Twins than you might think. The Cubs could receive two high draft picks if they offer Harden arbitration after the season and he signs elsewhere, but that's a risky strategy. Given his injury history, the club might not want to take...

The Twins may not be the team who claimed Rich Harden, says Joe Christensen.  Twins officials Saturday would not confirm or deny that they are the team that placed a claim on Cubs pitcher Rich Harden, as ESPN Chicago has reported. I don’t really think it matters who claimed Harden.  The only question is whether or not the Cubs have the intention of re-signing Harden and ifâ€...

Even though they officially put a waiver claim on him last week, the Twins are unlikely to land Cubs’ starter Rich Harden according to a report by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. As of late Sunday night, the Twins had yet to request Cubs pitcher Rich Harden’s medical records, a person close to Harden told the Star Tribune, [...]

Joe Christensen says "doubts have emerged" about the Twins completing a trade with the Cubs for Rich Harden. Christensen quotes sources who say "the Cubs had yet to open a window for the Twins to negotiate a long-term deal with Harden." Twins officials have yet to confirm or deny that they were the team that claimed Harden.Christensen notes the Twins would deal for Harden even without...

Sources have confirmed that the Minnesota Twins have claimed Rich Harden and the San Francisco Giants have claimed Aaron Heilman off the Chicago Cubs' waiver wire.

I watched not one second of Friday's affair. I managed about 10 minutes of Internet access and caught the 2-1 score, posted this premature comment and then later flipped on my XM radio to catch the final 5-2 win. The good news is the Cubs got a win and Milton Bradley and Alfonso Soriano went a combined 6/6 with 1 HR, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 2 Runs Scored and 2 BB's. The bad news was...

Rich Harden has done his best to keep the Chicago Cubs in the playoff race. Now he might not even be a member of the club by the time tonight's game starts.

Word broke last week that the Cubs had placed both Rich Harden and Aaron Heilman -- along with a few others I'm sure -- on waivers, and both had claims put in on them. The Twins wanted Harden and the Giants wanted Heilman as both teams make a late playoff push.Well, the Cubs had a 72-hour window to work out a trade with both teams because they weren't just going to let either go for nothing, and

Rich Harden and Aaron Heilman will stay with the Cubs.

Rich Harden and reliever Aaron Heilman are among several Cubs who have been claimed by unnamed contending teams, though the two pitchers could be the most likely to be acted upon.

Game One Hundred Twenty-Eight: Cubs (65-62) vs. Mets (58-72) Game Time - 1:20pm C.T. Coverage - TV: WGN TV - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 188 Location - Wrigley Field, Chicago Carlos Zambrano (7-5, 3.80/1.38) vs. Nelson Figueroa (1-3, 5.40/1.80) Can the Chicago Cubs win three in a row? The last time Lou Piniella's crew won on three consecutive days was from July...

Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi report in an article that the cubs are more open to moving pitcher Rich Harden. As a twins fan, I find this exciting and a huge upgrade to what we have right now.  Here's the article: The Twins are serious about acquiring right-hander Rich Harden from the Chicago Cubs, and the Cubs may be more open to dealing Harden than originally thought...