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01/14/2004 2:00 PM ET
Cubs make offer to Maddux
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By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com |
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| Greg Maddux was 16-11 with a 3.96 ERA with the Braves. (Tannen Maury/EPA)
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CHICAGO -- The Cubs have made free agent Greg Maddux an offer and Mike Remlinger is doing a little recruiting on his own.
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry made a two-year offer to Maddux through his agent, Scott Boras. The deal was believed to be in the $13-to-$15 million range.
If Maddux signed with the Cubs, he would be returning to the team where he began his Major League career. A second-round draft pick in the 1984 draft, Maddux won the first of his four Cy Young awards with the Cubs in 1992.
"Obviously, Greg has earned the right to do what he wants to do," Hendry said Wednesday of the right-hander, who turns 38 in April. "He's a tremendous pitcher, a tremendous guy. Hopefully, he'll want to come back and finish where he started.
"I don't think it'll be anything that he decides in the immediate future and makes an immediate decision," Hendry said. "I think he'll take his time. We'll continue to keep the door open and hopefully he'll decide to come home."
Remlinger and Maddux were together on the Atlanta Braves from 1999-2002, and the Cubs reliever made a couple calls to his former teammate.
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