Bradley traded??

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<!--quoteo(post=81573:date=Mar 4 2010, 04:45 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Mar 4 2010, 04:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=81561:date=Mar 4 2010, 04:19 PM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Mar 4 2010, 04:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Also, Rodman came to the Bulls and *produced.* If the Bulls signed him and he sucked on the same level as Milton *and* acted like an asshat? You better believe it wouldn't have gone nearly as well.
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I agree with that. However, wasn't the gist of Bradley's interview specifically saying "They expected me to do things I'd never done, like hitting 30 homers when my career best was 22."

To me, that would be the equivalent of expecting Rodman to put up 20-25 points a game offensively when he came to the Bulls. That wasn't his game.

Bradley's game, in all the years of his career before he came to Chicago, was to play a little OF, stay healthy for 100 or so games, and put up a damn good OBP.
And that's exactly what he did.
He played 124 games, and put up a very solid .378 OBP (3rd on the team, only slightly behind stalwarts Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez). And he got into some controversy. In other words, a completely typical Milton Bradley year.
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So by typical, you mean his WORST full season since his first year as a starter? His worst full season in 7 years? His first full season in which he had an OPS under league average since 2002? His OPB was around his career average. But his slugging was almost 50 points below his career. It was lower than any other full season in his career. There was nothing "typical" about Bradley's 2009. It was a very bad year for him.

KB, you keep trying to make the point that getting rid of Bradley was a blunder. Like he was a minor nuisance that the Cubs didn't want to deal with, so they got rid of him. Again, to a man, NO ONE in the clubhouse liked him. EVERYONE in the clubhouse is happy he is gone. Not ONE SINGLE player has come out to defend him (that I know of) that was in the clubhouse last year. No one. Have you ever seen that? There usually is at least one or two guys who will come out and say it's a shame he was gone, or how we don't really know the guy, but no Cubs have done that. A player doesn't get that despised by teammates by simply mouthing off once in a while. That would lead you to believe that things were far worse behind the scenes than what we knew about.