Bradley

[Scarey]

<!--quoteo(post=68764:date=Nov 12 2009, 11:03 AM:name=veryzer)-->QUOTE (veryzer @ Nov 12 2009, 11:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->everyone in baseball knew it was a risk to sign bradley. everyone, including me, who liked the move.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I don't know why I keep typing it but here it goes again. Bradley was as much a risk as the other right field possibilities last off-season. He played Russian Roulette and got the bullet. Would you rather have just gone with Reed Johnson as our right fielder?

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->patterson tore it up for two months. no more and no less.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

So.... are you saying Hendry should have tried to trade him after his knee surgery? Before even playing with the major league team? What exactly did you expect him to do with Patterson?

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->i knew pie was a bust from day one. he should have been traded while he still had value. i'm not the only one to think that.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

And what was it that gave you this heads up information? Was it your scouting abilities? Was it the fact that you tracked box scores and looked at statistics from the minor leagues that would lead most people to believe he would succeed? Or was it the crazy irrational feeling that he's "the next Patterson" because he looks like Patterson, is left handed, and athletic? Did you predict the same thing for Matt Kemp? Or Michael Bourn? Dexter Fowler? Or Nyjer Morgan? And how exactly is a 25 year old player with 500 ABs a bust?

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->the way hendry handled the sosa situation was brutal. he trashed sosa after the '04 season and made it virtually impossible to trade him for any value.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

We're going to just disagree here, so I'm not even getting into it with you.