The Dodgers have signed Ted Lilly to a three-year, $33MM contract that was
finalized today when the 34-year-old pitcher passed a physical. Dylan
Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times (via Twitter) reports that Lilly has a
full no-trade clause for the first two seasons of the deal, and the
left-hander will receive a $3.5MM signing bonus to be paid out over all three
years. Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com broke the news of the agreement last
Saturday, and MLB.com's Ken Gurnick was the first to confirm the dollar
amount (both Twitter links).
Los Angeles acquired Lilly from the Cubs at the trade deadline this summer,
and watched him post a 3.52 ERA with 9.0 K/9 and 1.8 BB/9 in dozen starts
(76.2 innings). He also threw his first complete game shutout since 2004
while in a Dodgers' uniform. Lilly just wrapped up the four year, $40MM
contract he signed with Chicago before the 2007 season.
Lilly projected to be a Type-A free agent, so the Dodgers will be forfeiting
a chance at two high draft picks with the move. Of course they would have had
to offer arbitration and Lilly would have had to turn it down for that to
happen, and neither of those things was a given.
Lilly was positioned to be one of the best free agent starting pitchers
available, and Sports Illustrated's Jon Heyman (via Twitter) calls the
signing a "bargain" for Los Angeles considering what Lilly could've earned on
the open market. Apparently he preferred to sign quickly, and given how the
market played out last offseason, it's hard to blame him.
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