An angry Rick Sutcliffe said Monday night, "I'm worried I'm notgoing to be here" after Aug. 31, the day traded players must jointheir new teams to be eligible for postseason play.
Yet Cub manager Don Zimmer said, "I'm looking for Sutcliffe topitch for me next year, probably Opening Day."
Sutcliffe said his agent called Monday morning to say the Cubshad asked for the eight teams to which he would not accept a trade.
Sutcliffe said he was miffed by the request because he alreadyhad told general manager Jim Frey he would not block any trade Freyfelt would better the team.
"There's no trade imminent," Frey said. "They (Sutcliffe andagent Barry Axelrod) intiated this. I didn't. I don't know whattheir intention is, I really don't."
Sutcliffe considered the issue a distraction. "On the day Ipitch, I don't need to have lunch with my wife while sitting aroundlooking through the newspaper for eight teams I don't want to playfor," he said.
Still, he said, "That's no excuse for the way I pitched" - fourruns on five hits, all in the third inning, in a seven-inning stint.
Sutcliffe declined to reveal the teams on his list, which hesaid he would give Frey today.
"I don't know what's going to happen now," he said. "I wasshocked to begin with. Now I'm worried."
Zimmer said the request for the eight teams probably was just aformality - one Sutcliffe had failed to take care of last year.
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