2010 Player Preview: Ted Lilly

I know we've all been the Mark Prior Watches, the Kerry Wood Watches, even the Aramis Ramirez Watch, all the towel drills and  all the false starts so typical to Cub World.  But make no mistake, Ted Lilly will come back in 2010, one-hundred-percent, as good as he ever has been. Lilly, rumor has it, maintains a complex of hydroponic chambers in the basement of his lavish wintertime estate, in which he raises a type of sub-human creature.  Several times a year, when one becomes ripe, he harvests the being, sucking out its lifeblood from its marrow.  Whatever the reason, Ted Lilly has the biggest balls on our pitching staff, and if any pitcher is apt to recover fully and without reservation from offseason shoulder surgery, it is he. He will come back, and when he does, he will throw strikes.  He will challenge hitters, occasionally leaving too much over the plate.  Balls will be struck in the air, and most times, the outfielders will be able to haul ...