OT: Cubs acquire 1B Anthony Rizzo from the Padres

[Relentless88]

Epstein traded Rizzo to the Padres in the Adrian Gonzalez deal and now he's brought him back to Chicago. I guess this removes the Cubs from the Prince Fielder race? Good trade for the Cubs.

The Chicago Cubs may have gotten their first baseman of the future, and his name isn't Prince Fielder.

The team acquired Anthony Rizzo from the Padres in a deal that sends right-hander Andrew Cashner to San Diego.

Rizzo batted .331 with 34 doubles, 26 home runs and 101 RBIs in 93 Triple-A games last season. He had a very solid 1.056 OPS. Rizzo struggled in his callup to the Padres, batting .141 in 128 at-bats, but it was the 22-year-old's first exposure to the big leagues.

New Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer know Rizzo well. The 6-foot-3, 220-pounder was originally drafted by the Red Sox in 2007 when the pair were in Boston. Rizzo was then a big part of the deal that brought Adrian Gonzalez to Boston. At that time Hoyer was the GM of the Padres.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/ ... ew-cashner

[guvernator]

Fielder is coming to Toronto. You best believe it.

[LBJSeizedMyID]

Great trade for the Cubs, and Cashner will benefit pitching in Petco.

[Rhettmatic]

JonHeymanCBS Jon Heyman
Toronto, cleveland and tampa were among the other teams in on rizzo, to varying degrees. #padres, #cubs

[illy]

get's kind of annoying that AA is "on in everything" most times and he doesn't get through. its usually the stuff that happens out of nowhere that actually happens. makes me think its all for PR.

[BobbyBoy]

Takes one more team out of the fielder race. Now if no one continues to talk to fielder he might lower his terms and hr jays might sign him.

[wbbfan]

JonHeymanCBS Jon Heyman
Toronto, cleveland and tampa were among the other teams in on rizzo, to varying degrees. #padres, #cubs

Im pretty sure AA is soo active with trades if you travel back in time to when the babe was sold to the yanks some were near the end of the article it would say the jays just missed out with their offer.
On topic, this is a pretty sweet move for the cubs.

[MikeM]

I think I'd rather have pre-injury Cashner than Rizzo but now, who knows.

[Avenger]

Its disturbing how much value people put on 40 games worth of meaningless MLB results. Before their respective debuts, Lawrie and Rizzo were probably equal in value as prospects and now one guy is seen as a franchise cornerstone and the other guy gets traded for a couple of minor league bums.

[Hoopstarr]

Incredible trade by Theo.