Stark tweets that the pitching prospects going to the Cubs are Brett Wallach and Kyle Smit.

Also incleded in the deal: A bucket of baseballs & a pair of Jockstraps! (for Hendry & Lou)

I believe the internet calls this "fail"? Sounds about right.

Info on both pitchers above with links to their Baseball-Reference pages.

http://muskat.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/07/731_lilly_theriot_dealt_to_dod.html

Thomas Diamond could get called up!

We could have got Kelly Johnson.

I like the idea of giving Diamond a look. That should be the theme for the rest of the season. Giving some players a look, to see what we have.

Let's package FonteNOT & a minor leaguer for Kelly. We could also make some trades & acquire minor leaguers & trade them with a Fukudome or Zambrano

I recommend everyone read above about the pitchers received in the deal. BA really likes Wallach.

Wallach is a nice mid level prospect. There is nothing wrong with this deal.

Aren't the games long enough? Without Theriot swinging on the first pitch, the games are gonna get even longer now.

And best of luck to Theodore. He could very well be back here next year, you know.

Neil are you hearing if Hendry has anything else cooking? Or is he done for the time being?

See if we now can trade Fukedome and Zambrano and Nady and Fontenot and Baker. Also see if we can get anything for Larry Rothchild he's worthless. All I hear is that Larry's one of the best and I see no evidence of his expertise. It's time for a new voice for the pitchers to hear.

yanks get wood
Brett Wallach

People here hated Theriot. They'll hate DeWitt more. And pitching prospects never work out with the Cubs because Larry has to develop them. Hence fail.

The only problem I have is that we traded one of our starting infielders, Theroit, who's salary is peanuts. It just pisses me off a little that they had to include Thriot. He plays hard and I feel we GAVE him away. Lilly who needed to go because of being on last year of contract. If Lilly was smart, he wouldn't want back here next year because we can't score runs Hopefully Wallach and Smit are decent. Bob Howry gone!!! GREAT! Thank God!

Theriot will help the Dodgers. He wasn't the same player since they moved him to second base. Fontenot and Baker also needs to go and lets look at what Iowa has at second. Hopefully we aren't done dealing?

Dodgers pick up O. Dotel for James Mcdonald and another player

well...the Cubs piqued my interest again....they just do enough sometimes to keep me interested again...thought I'd weigh in on this briefly before I go onto other things today:

Theriot was nothing more than a salary dump, so essentially we received DeWitt, Wallach, and Smit for Lilly, which is NOT a bad haul. It's underwhelming, for sure, in any normal season, but we have to be realistic. Haren and Oswalt are better pitchers than Lilly, and did not net good prospects. If you want to blame anyone on this one (I so badly want to fault Hendry...but I just can't...believe me), you have to blame Dipoto (D'Backs GM) and Wade (Astros GM). To think the Astros paid for most of Oswalt's remaining salary was just ludicrous, and one of the reasons Hendry had to suck it up and pay 1/2 of Lilly's, because most of the time in trade scenarios, you're held to the going market rate, which is what's happened recently in the trade scenes, and it obviously hasn't been impressive with teams holding onto top propects nowadays.

Dewitt supposedly has one of the prettiest lefty swings out there, without much to show for it, and is still under team control for 3 more years, and will be united with Rudy to help get the most out of his swing. Furthermore, he's just 24 years old, so that bodes well going forward. If Flaherty doesn't have such a disappointing season, I don't believe the Cubs make this trade.

Wallach, supposedly only has a 90 mph fastball, so while his stats are impressive, it's single-A ball, so keep things into perspective. Righties that throw 90 mph usually won't get very far: http://thinkbluela.blogspot.com/2009/06/mlb-draft-day-1-review.html

Smith also sits in the low 90's, so he doesn't project very well, ESPECIALLY as a reliever, which he is. Wallach, by far has the better potential: http://www.baseballamerica.com/draftdb/2006team.php?team=LAD

Anyway, if the Cubs can get anything out of Dewitt, this trade is a win. Anything Wallach and Smit give is gravy, especially with Theriot being a non-tender candidate and Lilly also likely not to have been given arbitration, thus we'd lose him for nothing, like we did Harden.

I'm not excited about the deal, but it's also not the worst thing that happened. Think of it this way...this is the FIRST move Hendry has made all year...that alone should be worthy of applause...LOL...(or a firing, as I see it)

Two things to consider here about Blake Dewitt, first the mechanics of his swing are very good. It has been said that he has the prettiest swing around that doesn't get results. I would think Rudy J has to be salivating thinking about what he could do with this kid.
Secondly, think about who is in the lead to be the Cubs manager next year and what his background was coming from the Phillies. 3b that never really blossomed. Who better to take this kid under his wing and teach him how to do it?

Food for thought.

Trade deadline has officially passed. Adam Dunn was MIA in clubhouse pregame. Details to follow.

I think there will other deals in August. So I don't Hendry is done

The Braves have acquired outfielder Rick Ankiel and reliever Kyle Farnsworth from the Royals, CBSSports.com has learned.

I thought for sure someone might take a flyer on Nady or Fontenot for anything.

From the Sun-Times:

Lilly says not "overly excited about it," despite looking forward to battling for a playoff spot.

Cubs reporter confirmed that Lou Piniella has left to Florida for death in family. Dave Magadan will take over

Dodgers gave Pirates Andrew Lambo (BA #7) and James McDonald for Dotel.

The CCO's 40-man roster tab has been updated.

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfmzmn9w_3k8spwfc4

Starting Pitcher needed for Monday night? Who is it gonna be? Diamond? Jackson? Coleman?

hey neil who is gonna be starting 2nd basemen rest of year dewitt baker or fonty or is dewitt back up they all pretty much have terrible numbers

Just checking in during a little rain storm, curios to see what had transpired at the deadline.

The only part I don't get is DeWitt. I mean why? He is Jeff Baker 2.0, maybe just 1.5. I assume this mean that either Baker or Fontenot or both will be move after clearing waivers. That or Hendry's obsession with light hitting infielders has grown beyond unhealthy.

Good for Woody! A shot for a championship.

I'm bummed for Lilly, I just hate LA!

I bet Westbrook does really well for St. Louie.

Can't wait to see Diamond. The rebuild is on!

I wanted to see Barney that sucks about DeWitt.

According to Levine, DeWitt will be the starting second baseman and Hendry was close to trading Nady and Fontenot

I think trading Ted Lilly was a mistake. A good southpaw pitcher that could carry the Cubs through six innings is a good performance. Unfortunately, the team didn't back him up with runs. So don't let a 3—8 record fool you. Every baseball fans knows that winning pitchers need scoring runs from the rest of the team.

how is that an upgrade over riot?

just read in espn rumor mill:

Zambrano, who hasn't pitched in the major leagues since his June 25 dugout confrontation with Derrek Lee, rejoined the team Friday in Colorado. After apologizing to his teammates, Big-Z stated that if the Cubs wanted to trade him in the future, he would waive his no-trade clause.

SI.com's Jon Heyman reports via Twitter that the Mets offered Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo for Zambrano, but the Cubs said no because they did not want Castillo as well.

That leaves open the possibility that the Cubs could deal Zambrano for Perez straight up in a swap of expensive contracts.

In reality, Saturday's deadline may not apply to Zambrano because no team will put a waiver claim on him, making him easy to trade in August. Any trade would require some creative thinking similar to what the Cubs and Mariners did this past winter in a deal for Carlos Silva.

Fontenot should be released at this point, as Dewitt and Baker, give the team all they need at 2B. Barney would be a better use of the roster spot, as it would be nice to see if is capable of playing at the major league level.

Does anybody know who the Cubs will bring up to fill the last two spots on the roster?
In any case, this deal was about money. Tom Ricketts now has a few more million to pay the vigorish on his multi-billion dollar debt, and Theriot was paid back for taking the Cubs to arbitration.

You are right, Tony--I hit the wrong key, b instead of m. (I majored in English and don't do math well.) However, it is common knowledge that Tom Ricketts borrowed half of the purchase price to buy the Cubs, and that's a multi-million dollar debt.
Mark Cuban was glad he wasn't allowed to bid, because he couldn't have raised that much money.
I read an article a while back--sorry, don't remember the details--which said that the interest alone would pay for two A-Rod type free agents every year.
Tom Ricketts has to be concerned with reducing that debt, which means that everything the Cubs do is financially driven--like selling signs in the bleachers or auctioning off the spring training site.
Is it a coincidence that The Riot was the only Cub to take them to arbitration and was traded even though not about to be a free agent? I think not. Nor do I think it coincidence that the new owner announced the Cubs will build through the farm system--anybody remember Wid Mathews?--and not free agency. The kids play for a lot less.
It wasn't a bad trade; the current clowns are going nowhere, and maybe the three new guys will work out. The Cubs lost with Theriot and Lilly; they can lose without them.
But Jim Hendry saved his boss a few million bucks on the deal, and I see that as financially driven, like everything else the new ownership has done and will continue to do.
Maybe you guys will agree with me when you go out to Amway's Wrigley Field and take your seats in Bob Rohrrrrrrman's Upper Deck.

Sorry Ron, I don't agree. Most any team would have traded Lilly at this point, and whether Theriot went to arbitration or not, he is really hard to watch anymore. If he was still playing like he did, his first few years, he would still be here. Theriot would have been released in the offseason,instead of giving him a raise in arbitration again, by almost any team in the league.

The teams payroll will be going down over the next few years, but I don't believe it is because Tom Ricketts is going cheap. It is because the really bad contracts will be falling off. I also do not believe that Ricketts stated he wanted to build through the farm system, because he needed the payroll dollars to make his payment. He wants to do that, because that is the best way to run a franchise. Free Agency is to be used to sign TRUE DIFFERENCE MAKERS and to sign great role players. It should not be used to sign whatever is available to more than they are worth, just so you can have your payroll at a certain amount.

I also don't have a problem with advertising at Wrigley Field. The choice is simple, build a new park, or maximize revenues at an aging field. As much as a new park would be nice, I love Wrigley, and am fine with the advertising.