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Ted Lilly
Chicago Cubs – No. 30
Starting pitcher
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
debut
May 14, 1999, for the Montreal Expos
Career statistics
(through August 30, 2008)
Win-Loss87-74
Earned run average4.43
Strikeouts1,133
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Lilly III (born January 4, 1976 in Torrance, California), is a starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. He bats and throws left-handed. Lilly attended Yosemite High School in Oakhurst, California, and Fresno City College.

Professional career

Early Years

Lilly broke into the majors with the Montreal Expos in 1999, pitching in only nine games that year before being traded to the New York Yankees as part of a trade involving Hideki Irabu.[1] Lilly played two plus years for the Yankees before being dealt to the Oakland Athletics in a three team deal that included pitchers Jeff Weaver heading to New York and Jeremy Bonderman going to the Detroit Tigers. Lilly was in the starting rotation for Oakland, and pitched in the American League Division Series in both 2002 and 2003.

2004 Season

Lilly was traded from the Athletics to the Blue Jays for Bobby Kielty.[2] He made the American League All-Star team in 2004 as the Jays' lone representative that year.

The highlight of his career as a Blue Jay was a start on August 23, 2004 against the Boston Red Sox. He pitched a complete-game shutout and struck out 13 batters in a three-hit 3-0 victory.

2006 Season

Lilly was 15-13 with a 4.31 ERA and 160 strikeouts in 2006, exceeding his previous career high for wins (12). He also equalled a career high for starts (32) and nearly matched his career highs in strikeouts and innings pitched. This season, he ranked first among the Jays' pitching staff in strikeouts and second only to Roy Halladay in wins (Halladay had a 16-5 record before a recurring elbow injury ended his season in late September).

On August 21, 2006, in a game against the Oakland Athletics, Lilly was surrendering an early 8-0 lead in the 3rd inning when manager John Gibbons took him out of the game with the score 8-5 and runners on 1st & 3rd, and Lilly refused to give him the ball. Eventually, he reluctantly left the mound and later feuded with Gibbons in the locker room, though Gibbons maintained no punches were thrown.

Lilly declared for free agency at the end of the 2006 season, and alongside Barry Zito, Jason Schmidt and Jeff Suppan, was one of the most sought-after free agent pitchers, partially due to the thin market for starting pitching. On the morning of December 6, 2006, He informed the Blue Jays that he would not be returning to the club, thus rejecting a four year, $40 million deal. He cited a "change in scenery" as his reasoning. Later on that day, Lilly agreed to an identical four year, $40 million deal with the Chicago Cubs, officially ending his tenure with the Blue Jays.[3]

2007 Season

In his first start for the Cubs, Lilly defeated the Cincinnati Reds in a strong outing, taking a no hitter into the fifth inning, and only yielding one earned run over seven innings.[4] Lilly then was the starting pitcher for the Cubs home opening game at Wrigley Field on April 9, 2007. Lilly gave up three runs in six innings, but did not factor into the decision.[5] Lilly pitched well in April, lasting at least six innings in each of his five starts while never giving up more than three runs in a game posting a 2.18 ERA.[6]

Lilly was prominent in a contentious series in Chicago between the Cubs and the Atlanta Braves. In game one of the series, Alfonso Soriano hit three home runs in his first three at-bats as part of a Cubs 9-1 victory[7]. In the next game, Tim Hudson hit Soriano with a first-pitch fastball triggering home-plate umpire Tim Tschida to issue warnings to both teams[8]. On the final game of the series, Lilly hit Edgar Rentería in the first inning, and was promptly thrown out of the ballgame by Jim Wolf[9]. Lilly was not suspended for his actions in the game, although the Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry was disappointed in the apparent double standard applied to the two teams as Hudson was not ejected from the second game.

MLB Stats

current as of October 1, 2007.

Season Team G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB SO W L ERA
1999 Montreal Expos 9 3 0 0 23.2 30 20 20 7 9 28 0 1 7.61
2000 New York Yankees 7 0 0 0 8.0 8 6 5 1 5 11 0 0 5.63
2001 New York Yankees 26 21 0 0 120.2 126 81 72 20 51 112 5 6 5.37
2002 New York Yankees 16 11 2 1 76.2 57 31 29 10 24 59 3 6 4.40
2002 Oakland Athletics 6 5 0 0 23.1 23 12 12 5 7 18 2 1 4.63
2003 Oakland Athletics 32 31 0 0 178.1 179 92 86 24 58 147 12 10 4.34
2004 Toronto Blue Jays 32 32 2 1 197.1 171 92 89 26 89 168 12 10 4.99
2005 Toronto Blue Jays 25 25 0 0 126.1 135 79 78 23 58 96 10 11 5.56
2006 Toronto Blue Jays 32 32 0 0 181.2 179 98 87 28 81 160 15 13 4.31
2007 Chicago Cubs 34 34 0 0 207.0 181 91 88 28 55 174 15 8 3.83
2008 Chicago Cubs 24 24 0 0 140.2 139 71 68 25 50 129 12 6 4.32

See also

References

  1. ^ Ted Lilly, baseball-reference.com, Retrieved on June 6, 2007.
  2. ^ Ted Lilly,baseball-reference.com, Retrieved on June 6, 2007.
  3. ^ [1], Fox Sports, Retrieved on June 6, 2007
  4. ^ Wittenmyer, Gordon, In complete command,Chicago Sun-Times, Accessed on June 6, 2007
  5. ^ Gano, Rick, Houston 5, Cubs 3, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 16, 2007.
  6. ^ No Author,Ted Lilly Stats, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 16, 2007.
  7. ^ Odom, Charles, Chi Cubs 9, Atlanta 1, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 16, 2007
  8. ^ Odom, Charles, Altanta 9, Chi Cubs 5, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 16, 2007
  9. ^ Henry, George, Atlanta 5, Chi Cubs 4, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 16, 2007

References

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