Cubs News Roundup

Kerry Wood continued his rehab with a solid one inning performance for Peoria on Tuesday night. Wood through 12 pitches in a scoreless inning and his velocity was 91-94mph. Wood walked one batter, had two groundouts and a flyout. He will make back to back relief appearances Thursday and Friday of this week to see how he responds.

Henry Blanco caught in the Tuesday night Peoria game, and is 2-6 with 3 rbi in his first three games.

Wade Miller will make a rehab start with AA West Tennessee on Wednesday night.

Hendry says Angel Guzman (Elbow) probably won't start pitching in the minors again until the middle of August.

Ronny Cedeno's recall came at the right time with Mark DeRosa leaving Tuesday night's game with tendinitis in his hamstring. Hopefully he'll respond to treatment and not need to go on the disabled list. If he is disabled I would expect Matt Murton to be recalled from Iowa instead of another infielder. (Jim Hendry confirms in today's Daily Herald that Murton hasn't fallen off his radar - he says if the Cubs don't trade for another bat Murton could be recalled)

As I predicted earlier today, Scott Moore was optioned to Iowa to make room for Cedeno. The Cubs decided to keep Jake Fox on the roster. With DeRosa and Floyd banged up Fox might see some action in the outfield this series.

Speaking of the perennially banged up Floyd, (who again was slow moving after sliding home for no reason on Tuesday - where was the on deck hitter to tell him to stay up?) Jim Hendry said he may have to consider making a trade for another outfielder if Floyd cannot stay healthy and produce more. My opinion, don't waste any time, just go find another outfielder. Cliff might be a nice guy, but one can't help but think his body is past it's baseball expiration date.