Obsessive Bradley Trade Watch: Milton Bradley to Toronto, Vernon Wells to Chicago
bleachernation.com 22 days ago — The hottest Milton Bradley trade rumor making the rounds has the Chicago Cubs sending Bradley to the Toronto Blue Jays in a bad contract swap for outfielder Vernon Wells. “It’s early on, but we think this one has some legs,” said one Cubs official. “But they ...

Obsessive Bradley Trade Watch: How About Luis Castillo?
bleachernation.com 13 days ago — A new day and a new Milton Bradley trade rumor. Today’s version has the Chicago Cubs dealing Milton Bradley to the Blue Jays, who would send Lyle Overbay to the New York Mets, who would send second baseman Luis Castillo to the Cubs. The teams would have to work out the money part of the ...

Bad Contracts, Milton Bradley and Other Cub Related Links
thecubreporter.com 26 days ago — - Nick Steiner takes a look at Milton Bradley using Pitch F/X data and comes away impressed. The fact that Bradley has such a bad year - and it wasn't even that bad - can be placed solely on a huge drop in ISO from his previously established norms. His plate discipline and contact ...

Obsessive Bradley Trade Watch: Holy Crap, There Are Actually a Lot of Suitors
bleachernation.com 10/22/2009 — As we watched team after team drop off the list of those we thought made sense for a Milton Bradley trade, our collective optimism that the Chicago Cubs could move Bradley for something remotely serviceable - if they could move him at all - fell by the wayside. But Ken Rosenthal has come ...

Why Trading Milton Bradley is Stupid
talkingchicagobaseball.com 26 days ago — Rather than pretend like the Milton Bradley situation doesn't exist until some real news breaks, I'm going to go back to begging Jim Hendry to keep him on the team. Looking at some of the rumored deals that have been tossed around I realize that there isn't a single good trade that can be made ...

Milton Bradley: Destination Toronto?
bleedcubbieblue.com 23 days ago — More photos » by David Zalubowski - AP Browse more photos » The Toronto Sun reports this morning on a potential Milton Bradley for Vernon Wells swap: The ...

Obsessive Bradley Trade Watch: Eric Byrnes is Popping Up Again
bleachernation.com 6 days ago — Increasingly, Milton Bradley trade rumors center on bad contracts coming back to the Chicago Cubs as opposed to the Cubs eating a bunch of Bradley’s contract. That is both good and bad: it could be better financially for the Cubs, and it could knock out two birds with one stone, depending ...

The Wreck of the Milton Bradley
feedproxy.google.com 13 days ago — It seems the Milton Bradley saga has been dragging out since the Edmund Fitzgerald headed out onto Lake Superior for the last time 34 years ago, but it has actually been less than a year since he signed with the team.  Can you even f---ing believe that?  Both events had about the ...

Obsessive Bradley Trade Watch: Not the Mets
bleachernation.com 27 days ago — It was reported last week that the number of suitors for Milton Bradley this Winter would be “shocking.” That was quite a relief, because up to that point, all we’d really heard about were the teams that were not interested in Bradley. And the worst part was the fact that all ...

Milton Bradley a hot property
bases.nbcsports.com 10/22/2009 — Yeah, I did a double take too, but check out what FOX's Ken Rosenthal is reporting: Multiple teams are in contact the Cubs about outfielder Milton Bradley, with one source saying, "You would be shocked at the level of interest." ...

Chicago Cubs Considering Cross Country Spring Training Move? — Bleacher Report - MLB 28 days ago
Reports out of Florida and Chicago are that investors in Naples, FL will propose a move of the Cubs' Spring Training facilities from Mesa, AZ to Naples as soon as 2013 to Tom Ricketts. The Cubs existing contract, a 25-year lease in Mesa, expires in ...

Top Ten Things Overheard at St. Louis Hitters Meetings in 2010 — Bleacher Report - MLB 28 days ago
ESPN's Buster Olney is reporting that, when Tony LaRussa returns to St. Louis to manage the Cardinals in 2010, he'll have a new hitting coach. Mark McGwire. That's right, the man once responsible for "saving baseball" with Sammy Sosa, and was later ...

Tigers confirm interest in Chapman — Major League Baseball News 27 days ago
Add the Tigers to the meeting list for Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman as he talks with Major League teams.

Former Mariners C Johjima joins Hanshin Tigers — Boston.com -- Baseball News 27 days ago
Former Seattle Mariners catcher Kenji Johjima has agreed to join the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Central League.

Cubs sale final: Ricketts family take ownership — Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago Cubs :: 27 days ago
The Chicago Cubs have a new owner. The Ricketts family officially assumed control of the team today upon the closing of its $845 million deal with Tribune Co.