Bradley

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Not surprised that teams would show interest in Bradley, as long as Cubs are willing to pay the vast majority of the remaining 2 years on the contract. Have a feeling that the teams interested drops off tremendously if the Cubs aren't willing to eat over $12 MM of the deal.

Bradley can be a fine hitter in the No 2 hole. Unfortunately, the Cubs were expecting to use him as a 4,5 hitter. Bradley is just not a RBI guy. Hendry should have realized that he didn't have a fit. The situation became worse when Soto became lost at the plate plus Soriano and Aramis injuries. It sad as all Bradley was expected to do was replace Jim Edmonds' (around 50 - 60 RBIs) production but that was last year.

Bradley needs to be gone and hopefully the Cubs can find a guy who can be expected to drive in 70 + RBIs.

The big questions are: A) how much salary will the Cubs eat on the contract?; and, [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img] who will the Cubs get for run production?. Both questions are related as the less the Cubs have to pay to rid themselves of Bradley, the better chance of gong into the free agent pool or have to eat another team's bad contract.