The Answers
October 10th, 2009 Posted in Jeremy Bonderman, Milton BradleyPatrick Hayes at Mlive.com has all of the answers as to how the Tigers can fix their roster before next season. A big piece of the plan involves the Tigers trading Jeremy Bonderman for Milton Bradley (funny name, insane personality).
I think it makes sense to trade Bonderman. I get that. His producation has been close to nothing and his contract is awful. Bradley has plenty of talent, but he has a few huge strikes against him:
- He’s overpaid as well. Bradley is still owed $21M over the next two seasons. The Tigers are not in the greatest financial situation as it is.
- He’s kind of crazy. Bradley has played for seven teams in ten seasons. That’s nuts. You’d be hard pressed to find a player as talented as Bradley supposedly is that has bounced around that much. He’s also been traded four times. Bradley has had numerous blow-ups on and off the field in his career and I don’t think the Tigers are looking to bring in that kind of noise.
- He’s as injury prone as they come this side of Rocco Baldelli. Bradley has topped the 130 game mark only once in his 10 big league seasons. The Tigers are weak as it is in the outfield (Clete Thomas is not a full-time player) and having Bradley on board to miss chunks of time with an injury would hurt the team.
A move like this could work out for the Tigers, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
4 Responses to “The Answers”
By Travis on Oct 10, 2009
A massive “NO” to Milton Bradley. I would ok a salary swap with Bondo, but Bradley is a proven cancer no matter where he plays. We think we have issues with Cabrera; add Bradley to the mix, and see what happens.
By Ryan Crabtree on Oct 11, 2009
Bonderman for Bradley
no way!
Robertson for Bradley …… Maybe
By Blake VandeBunte on Oct 12, 2009
I would do Robertson for Bradley in a second.
By Cousin Rob on Oct 13, 2009
BOOOO!!! Bradley sucks. A few other things:
1. He put up some of the worst offensive career numbers to date, consider how many games he played. Avg, OPS, hits were all way down.
2. Also, he is hitting that magical age (or non-magical in this case) of 31 where he will start to decline unless he changes his game or hits the HGH.
3. From what I can tell, it looks like he is owed 23m over the next two years. Here I am, thinking Johnny Damon is overpaid at 13m/year. He is a deal compared to Bradley at 11.5m/year.