Cubs trade Lilly, Theriot to Dodgers for DeWitt, 2 pitching prospects

[Gidney N Cloyd]

Yeah. That oughtta do it. Guess the new owners studied up on typical Cub trades.

Coming to the Cubs

• Blake DeWitt, infielder

Age: 24, native of Sarasota, Fla.

Bats: left Throws: right

Size: 5-11, 175 pounds

Career stats: .262 hitter with 31 doubles, six triples and 12 home runs in 230 games over last three seasons with the Dodgers.

This season: Hitting .270 with 15 doubles, 4 triples, 1 home run, 30 RBI, 29 runs scored and a .352 on-base percentage in 82 games

• Kyle Smit, RHP

Age: 22, native of Sparks, NV

Size: 6-3, 265 pounds

This season: 5-3 with 6 saves and a 2.35 ERA (14 ER/53.2 IP) in 37 minor league appearances (one start) between Single-A Inland Empire and Double-A Chattanooga. He is 2-0 with 5 saves and a 0.72 ERA (2 ER/25.0 IP) in his last 18 relief appearances starting May 30.

• Brett Wallach, RHP

Age: 21, a native of Anaheim, CA

Size: 6-2, 185 pounds

This season: 6-0 with a 3.72 ERA (35 ER/84.2 IP) in 17 starts for Single-A Great Lakes this season and struck out 92 batters in only 84.2 innings pitched, an average of 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings. Wallach is the son of former Dodger player and current Dodger Triple-A Manager Tim Wallach.

Going to Los Angeles

• Ted Lilly, LHP

This season: Lilly went 3-8 with a 3.69 ERA (48 ER/117.0 IP) in 18 starts.

• Ryan Theriot

This season: Theriot batted .284 with 10 doubles, 2 triples, 1 HR and 21 RBI in 96 games

• Cash: LA gets $2.5 million to cover Lilly's contract, which saves Cubs about $1.75 million.

Source: Chicago Cubs

[Bluzmann57]

1. Have you seen the Cubs play this year?

They are awful. And changes have to be made.
The major problems now seem to be Piniella has just given up and Hendry just plain sucks.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I certainly have seen them play.

For all the shit on their roster the last thing I think they need to dump is a starting pitcher who can eat up innings like Lilly.

[Indianademocrat91]

3. Die hard Cubs fan here too

I don't think it was that bad of a trade, get rid of the terrible Theriot and we got some good pitching prospects in return for their 2 month lease on Lilly. We have absolutely 0% of winning anything soon so I don't think it was bad. Dewitt's stats yesterday was 3-4 with a double, you know the last time Theriot had an extra base hit? Ya neither do I. He's an average player who sucked Hendry's tit until Castro came up and then Theriot bitch and moaned because he's not good enough to beat out a 20 year old. I am really happy about the Cubs farm system in the coming years, now if they would just get Hendry out of here then we could actually start building a good team without 500% bigger contracts than people deserve.

[Onceuponalife]

4. The Dodgers will take him and he loves LA more than Randy Newman

He retired 19 straight in his first start. Theriot looks like a solid player. Blake who?