Baffoe: Kerry Wood's Numbers Aren't Worthy Of Retiring His

" (CBS) So I’ve had a weekend to digest the Kerry Wood retirement. All the dust of initial surprise, the immediate realization of a career’s mortality and the contemplation of Wood’s position in Cubs history has pretty much settled.

The dozens of you who read my stuff know that I did not want Wood in a Cubs uniform for the 2012 season. He was a mascot at best, a remnant of what I hope is the old Cubbie way of folk heroism. There was no chance in hell that Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer had him as a part of their greater plan, and Wood returning was more a favor to Tom Ricketts and the throng of nostalgic nitwits who would cheer an unproductive signing at the team convention than it was anything strategic.

I didn’t want to be right about Wood being done, but here we are. These past two months or so saw what I already knew—he just couldn’t be productive to a major league squad anymore. Kudos to Wood, though, on realizing that before somebody above him in the organization had to force him to realize it "

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