11-25-2009, 03:03 PM
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Which is why, for the hundredth time, I'm not arguing that. You are more than welcome to say it was a bad decision. You are not more than welcome to say that it was a bad decision BECAUSE his only other offer was for 2 years, 13 million dollars. Because you have no idea what the other offers were.
I don't know how else to explain this. It's no different than saying it's unfair to rip Hendry for a trade he didn't make, because we have no idea as to whether or not that trade was actually offered to him.
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Can we not safely assume that there weren't a line of GMs, all clamoring to give Bradley a multi-year contract? His fragile nature, combined with his not-so-pleasant personality, combined with the drama that always seems to surround him, etc. Everyone knows (not just GMs) that he was a major risk. Why sign a guy like that for 3 years? How many GMs were going to be willing to do this?
It isn't rocket science -- it's common sense.
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It doesn't take a line of GM's, just one with a checkbook. Hendry found that out when he offered Furcal, who was expected to get 8 million a year, 10 million. The Dodgers then swooped in and offered 13. So if someone else offered Bradley a similar contract, and Hendry had (rightly or wrongly) concluded the other remaining FA RFs' couldn't play right field, we would be screwed.
Can you tell me, with absolute certainty, that no other GM offered Bradley 3/25?
Which is why, for the hundredth time, I'm not arguing that. You are more than welcome to say it was a bad decision. You are not more than welcome to say that it was a bad decision BECAUSE his only other offer was for 2 years, 13 million dollars. Because you have no idea what the other offers were.
I don't know how else to explain this. It's no different than saying it's unfair to rip Hendry for a trade he didn't make, because we have no idea as to whether or not that trade was actually offered to him.
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Can we not safely assume that there weren't a line of GMs, all clamoring to give Bradley a multi-year contract? His fragile nature, combined with his not-so-pleasant personality, combined with the drama that always seems to surround him, etc. Everyone knows (not just GMs) that he was a major risk. Why sign a guy like that for 3 years? How many GMs were going to be willing to do this?
It isn't rocket science -- it's common sense.
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It doesn't take a line of GM's, just one with a checkbook. Hendry found that out when he offered Furcal, who was expected to get 8 million a year, 10 million. The Dodgers then swooped in and offered 13. So if someone else offered Bradley a similar contract, and Hendry had (rightly or wrongly) concluded the other remaining FA RFs' couldn't play right field, we would be screwed.
Can you tell me, with absolute certainty, that no other GM offered Bradley 3/25?
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