Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer says that the team has offered Kerry Wood a "substantial raise" in hopes of bringing the veteran relief pitcher back. "We continue to want Kerry back in Chicago," Hoyer said. "We've offered him a substantial raise and we certainly hope it gets done. "(President of baseball operations Theo Epstein) and I and the rest of the people we brought in, obviously we come in with somewhat a fresh set of eyes, that doesn't diminish what people have done long before (we arrived) here." Wood, Chicago's No. 1 pick in the 1995 June draft, earned rookie of the year honors in 1998 and spent the first 11 years of his career in the organization.