The Tyler "It's time for me to start playin' ball" Chatwood Sloogetacular

[Shooter]

I know the Cubs are great at managing players and they probably don't want to send him down unless they have to, but after tonight's performance I think it's safe to say he should be making regular starts at Iowa trying to figure this out.  He doesn't seem to have any value as a bullpen arm whatsoever.

He'd have to pass through waivers, and some shitty team would gladly claim him to try fixing him while the Cubs pay his salary.

If they claim him, don't they get his contract too?

[Quality Start Machine]

I know the Cubs are great at managing players and they probably don't want to send him down unless they have to, but after tonight's performance I think it's safe to say he should be making regular starts at Iowa trying to figure this out.  He doesn't seem to have any value as a bullpen arm whatsoever.

He'd have to pass through waivers, and some shitty team would gladly claim him to try fixing him while the Cubs pay his salary.

If they claim him, don't they get his contract too?

A quick read-through on various types of waivers seems to indicate that they'd put him on revocable minor league waivers, so a team that claims him (they have 48 hours after he's posted) makes a deal with the Cubs, or the Cubs have the option of pulling him back. Chances are he's already passed through this (or he's been claimed and pulled back already) - there's usually a huge dump of guys that go through on August 1 - so if he has, then yeah...he can go to Iowa straight away...providing there's no language in his contract prohibiting that.

[Oleg]

I know the Cubs are great at managing players and they probably don't want to send him down unless they have to, but after tonight's performance I think it's safe to say he should be making regular starts at Iowa trying to figure this out.  He doesn't seem to have any value as a bullpen arm whatsoever.

He'd have to pass through waivers, and some shitty team would gladly claim him to try fixing him while the Cubs pay his salary.

If they claim him, don't they get his contract too?

A quick read-through on various types of waivers seems to indicate that they'd put him on revocable minor league waivers, so a team that claims him (they have 48 hours after he's posted) makes a deal with the Cubs, or the Cubs have the option of pulling him back. Chances are he's already passed through this (or he's been claimed and pulled back already) - there's usually a huge dump of guys that go through on August 1 - so if he has, then yeah...he can go to Iowa straight away...providing there's no language in his contract prohibiting that.

I'm pretty sure they'd have to DFA him in order to be able to send him to the minors.