Milton Bradley

Vesting Options For 2010

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | June 23, 2009 at 12:47pm CDT

Magglio Ordonez's 2010 vesting option has created a small stir in the last week or so, but there's a group of players with less-publicized vesting options. Here are updates on a few of them, and please add anyone I missed in the comments below:

Freddy Sanchez will earn $8MM in 2010 if he makes 635 plate appearances this year. The option will also kicks in if he makes the All Star team and bats 600 times. With 290 plate appearance already, it looks like Sanchez will make $8MM next year.
Kevin Millwood has a $12MM option that kicks in after 180 innings pitched. He hasn't pitched that much since 2006, but with a league-leading 106.2 innings logged already, Millwood will likely see his option vest.
It's no surprise that we've heard little about Dmitri Young's $6MM option for next year. It only vests if he bats 500 times, but he hasn't hit yet in 2009. It's safe to say the Nats won't be stuck paying him that much next year.
Josh Beckett's $12MM 2010 option will kick in if he starts 28 games this year. He's already at 14, so that number seems attainable.
Milton Bradley's 2011 option will vest if he plays 75 games in 2009. In other words, Bradley will earn $12MM in 2011 if he plays 22 more games this year.

Odds And Ends: Arnett, El Duque, Crow

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | June 12, 2009 at 9:49am CDT

Links for Friday morning…

Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the Brewers are close to signing first rounder Eric Arnett.
Ready for next year's draft? MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo is, with ten players to watch in 2010, including Cameron Bedrosian, the son of Steve Bedrosian, who won the 1987 NL Cy Young Award.
Jamey Newberg walks his readers through the five step plan the Rangers used to set the team up to contend for years.
Tyler Kepner of the New York Times looks at the big picture and determines that a lot has changed since 2004. More specifically, the Red Sox have a "stranglehold" on the Yankees.
Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times says Milton Bradley is a "$30MM elephant in the room" because of his hitting struggles.
Dave Sheinin of the Washington Post believes Felix Hernandez can and will become even better.
Joel Sherman of the New York Post hopes Orlando Hernandez succeeds in Texas. What a great story that would be.
Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star reports that Aaron Crow's in line for a $3-4MM bonus before the August 17th signing deadline. The deadline doesn't apply to college seniors, but Crow didn't go back to college for his senior year, so he has to sign by the 17th, like most players.

Odds And Ends: Red Sox, Peavy, Indians, Torre

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | June 1, 2009 at 2:59pm CDT

Odds & Ends: Minaya, Bradley, McClain

By Tim Dierkes | April 24, 2009 at 9:53am CDT

Links for Friday…

Yahoo's Gordon Edes on what might've been: Alex Rodriguez in Boston.
MetsBlog's Matthew Cerrone interviewed GM Omar Minaya.
Milton Bradley is not a fan of the Chicago media. He explained why in an exclusive chat with MLB.com's Carrie Muskat.
Rob Bradford of WEEI talks about the scarcity of middle-of-the-order bats on the free agent market, as it relates to the Red Sox.
Scot Gregor of the Daily Herald wonders if Luis Vizcaino could return to the White Sox.
Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker passes along a Sponichi report indicating that the Hiroshima Carp are in contract talks with minor league veteran Scott McClain.
Mike Thomas of The Herald News caught up with Shea Hillenbrand and got the player's take on the various incidents in his career.

Odds & Ends: Robinson, Benitez, Lee

By | April 23, 2009 at 4:11pm CDT

A few links for Thursday…

According to Tracee Hamilton of the Washington Post, former Nationals manager Frank Robinson has been named Special Assistant to the Commisioner. He'll basically work as an advisor to Bud Selig.
Milton Bradley had a 10-minute meeting with Cubs manager Lou Piniella on Thursday, presumably to discuss his on-field antics and clubhouse demeanor. He was thrown out of a game and suspended last week. He has also blown off the Chicago media a few times, and lazily ran out a grounder during Wednesday's game.
Peter Gammons of ESPN said in a radio spot Thursday that he doesn't believe the Indians will end up trading Cliff Lee.
The Newark Bears of the Atlantic League have signed former major leaguer Armando Benitez. He spent part of last year with the Blue Jays, but is best remembered for his time as a closer for the Mets, Marlins and Giants.

Milton Bradley Suspended Two Games

By | April 18, 2009 at 1:16pm CDT

As Alden Gonzalez of MLB.com reports, Milton Bradley has been suspended two games and fined an undisclosed amount for making contact with umpire Larry Vanover during Thursday's game against the Cardinals.

Bradley was pinch-hitting, and making his Wrigley Field debut, when he disagreed with a called third strike and jumped into Vanover's face, knocking his cap slightly upward. His teammates seemed to approve of the outburst, but it no doubt bothered upper management.

"I like it," Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee said recently, before learning of the suspension. "He said what he had to say and walked off. That's him. He's intense. It's a big situation, he wants to do well, and he got upset. It's OK. He didn't do anything malicious." Apparently the Commissioner's Office thought otherwise.

Milton Bradley Comments

By Tim Dierkes | March 10, 2009 at 5:26pm CDT

Milton Bradley’s comments to Gil Lebreton of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram are causing a mini-stir. He spoke about how the Rangers wouldn’t commit to him:

"My agent was saying that Jon Daniels was telling him, ’There are days when he doesn’t want to play because of his health.’ Well, you can get a healthy guy to go out there and play 162 games, but he won’t do what I did in 120."

As Lebreton said, the comment was "crudely self-serving" but "mostly right" given his production last year. Worse, though, Bradley seemed to admit to prioritizing his stats:

"If I’m being paid, and I’ve got the commitment to me that I give to them, you make more of an effort to be out there every day. When you’re on one-year deals constantly, you’ve got to put up as good numbers as you can. When you have days where you’re not feeling like you can contribute, you’re not going to go out there, because you’re not going to want your numbers to suck. So, if you’re in a situation like I am now, if they want me to go out there when I’m feeling a little banged up, I’ve got no problem doing that because they’ve made the commitment to me."

Heyman On Bradley, A-Rod, Manny

By Tim Dierkes | March 6, 2009 at 1:01pm CDT

New info from SI.com’s Jon Heyman…

Milton Bradley’s two-year, $20MM deal becomes a three-year, $30MM deal only if he plays at least 75 games in 2009. Bradley’s games played totals over the past four years: 126 (mostly DHing), 61, 96, 75. The structure of the deal seems dangerous – does it give Bradley incentive to play hurt?
Heyman talks about the A-Rod injury situation, running through the various replacement names we’ve discussed.
Heyman believes the Giants would’ve gotten to the low-$40MM range over two years for Manny Ramirez, and they had not agreed to an opt-out.

Odds and Ends: Dunn, Byrd, Epstein

By Tim Dierkes | February 12, 2009 at 3:30pm CDT

Links for Thursday…

RotoAuthority ranks the outfielders for fantasy baseball.
All kinds of interesting comments from former Phillies GM Pat Gillick, including his thoughts on Pat Burrell and Milton Bradley.
Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch weighs in on the Cardinals’ second base situation.
ESPN’s Keith Law evaluates the Nationals’ Adam Dunn signing. He considers it "$20 million for a few meaningless wins over the next two years."
Evan Brunell of Fire Brand of the American League interviewed free agent hurler Paul Byrd.
Rob Bradford of WEEI has quotes from Theo Epstein about trading young players.
Shoutout to our readers in the United Kingdom, who account for 11,000 of MLBTR’s pageviews this month.

Heyman’s Latest: Pedro, Alou, Pudge

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | January 28, 2009 at 5:47pm CDT

The latest from SI.com’s Jon Heyman:

Some baseball people believe Omar Minaya will bring Pedro Martinez back to New York once Oliver Perez signs. Minaya loves Pedro and Pedro may prefer to return to the Mets
The Phillies have about $3MM left to spend; Heyman wonders whether Moises Alou would sign for that kind of money.
The Phillies have also considered Rich Aurilia and Nomar Garciaparra, but Aurilia may simply return to the Giants if they have room for him.
Heyman says Ivan Rodriguez makes the most sense for the Marlins, but adds that they have little money to spend.
Jeff Moorad’s attempt to buy the Padres will almost certainly go through.
Heyman makes one clarification about Milton Bradley’s deal after viewing the contract. It’s a two year $20MM deal with an option for a third year that kicks in if Bradley spends fewer than 75 days on the DL this year.

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