Milton Bradley Traded To Mariners For Carlos Silva

[Prizefight]

Cubs are getting 9 million. I feel better. :-k =D>

 

Slightly.

 

 

So we saved about 4-5 million roughly. Let's go sign Cameron! #-o

Edited December 18, 2009 by Prizefight

[dew1679666265]

Cubs are getting 9 million. I feel better. :-k =D>

 

Slightly.

 

 

So we saved about 4-5 million roughly.

 

$6 million, according to Sullivan.

[A-Cal]

Milton Bradley, the 6 million dollar baby.

[fiver]

Cubs are getting 9 million. I feel better. :-k =D>

 

link?

 

If this is true, then my head may not explode as quickly. I'm still think Jim is an emotional piece of crap who acted hastily after Milton hurt his itty bitty feelings.

Edited December 18, 2009 by fiver

[evv98]

Someone wake me when this nightmare is over.

 

See you in 2014 once Soriano is gone.

 

I knew, heck we all knew, that the Soriano contract would hamstring this organization during the last few years. That doesn't mean that the Cubs can't find ways to be a winner. It just makes it more difficult.

 

The Bradley situation is much more difficult for me to swallow. To me it seems that the GM of the Cubs has to make trades and signings that are going to help the club. When considering this trade it would seem fairly easy to determine what should be done. Are the Cubs better off with with Bradley and his baggage or are they better off with Silva and his suckiness ples pay an additional 4M?

 

Any GM that thinks the Cubs are a better team with Silva needs to be fired. Immediately.

 

I've been a Cubs fan for nearly 40 years and the last 15 months have been just about as bad as any I remember (along with 2004-2006). There have been worse teams and GMs, but to have brief hope and then lose it all again so quickly is disheartening.

[A-Cal]

I can't wait to see what happens with that extra flow Hendry just cleared. I will try to make this easy. Sign Matt Capps and then Pods.

[Prizefight]

then Pods.

 

You made a funny.

[imb]

I can't wait to see what happens with that extra flow Hendry just cleared. I will try to make this easy. Sign Matt Capps and then Pods.

 

marlon byrd for the jaramillo connection

[A-Cal]

then Pods.

 

You made a funny.

 

It won't be so funny when it happens.

[jersey cubs fan]

I can only assume he's going to throw more money at "proven relievers".

[Sever82]

Heyman says its 6 million over two years. Not sure if thats 6 million before or after the contract offset.

[A-Cal]

I am just spit-balling. How much money does Hendry now have to spend?

[Guancous]

There better be an amazing Part 2 to this plan. Either that or Jay Jackson better turn into 1998 Kerry Wood and Tyler Colvin better turn into Andrew McCutchen.

[dew1679666265]

Bruce Miles:

 

The deal is done. The Cubs have traded right fielder Milton Bradley to the Seattle Mariners for right-handed pitcher Carlos Silva. The Cubs also will net $9 million out of the deal. We'll hear from Jim Hendry this afternoon.

 

Silva's numbers are on today's earlier blog.

 

More to come.

[Keener98]

Yea wonderful. Hendry saved 6 million dollars so now he can go sign Scott [expletive] Podsednik to a 3 yr 18mil deal instead of a 2yr 12 million deal. Seriously, this trade is [expletive] indefensible but Im sure there are plenty of stupid [expletive] Cubs fans that are ecstatic about Bradley being gone. Idiots

[MWV]

I can unsderstand a small budget team "blowing up" their roster to save money and constructing a younger, cheaper team, and I can understand a big budget team taking on payroll and constructing a (often older) team of proven, talent.

What Jim Hendry has accomplished over these past two offseasons seems, however, to be a confluence of the worst aspects of these approaches. He's let talented players walk (w/o draft pick compensation) to avoid hefty arbitration settlements, overpaid for "veteran" role players and traded away other talented players for in return for (or in order to replace them with) less talented high priced players. His approach to constructing a baseball team is bafflingly inconsistent.

[Sever82]

Yea wonderful. Hendry saved 6 million dollars so now he can go sign Scott [expletive] Podsednik to a 3 yr 18mil deal instead of a 2yr 12 million deal. Seriously, this trade is [expletive] indefensible but Im sure there are plenty of stupid [expletive] Cubs fans that are ecstatic about Bradley being gone. Idiots

 

The trade isn't that bad once you hear how much money the cubs saved. Though i still would've preferred Castillo from the Mets in some kind of deal. It makes you wonder that maybe the Rays weren't willing to take anything of miltons salary. It also depends on what hendry does with that money.

[treebird]

okay, there's the cash. cut silva now. right now.

[jersey cubs fan]

Yea wonderful. Hendry saved 6 million dollars so now he can go sign Scott [expletive] Podsednik to a 3 yr 18mil deal instead of a 2yr 12 million deal. Seriously, this trade is [expletive] indefensible but Im sure there are plenty of stupid [expletive] Cubs fans that are ecstatic about Bradley being gone. Idiots

 

The trade isn't that bad once you hear how much money the cubs saved. Though i still would've preferred Castillo from the Mets in some kind of deal. It makes you wonder that maybe the Rays weren't willing to take anything of miltons salary. It also depends on what hendry does with that money.

 

They really didn't save much, and they downgraded talent. One team came out of this deal with a useful asset, and it wasn't the Cubs.

[davell]

Allright, so we're getting 9 mill, I guess.......It's still godawful. That said, I wish like hell I had any idea how the Cubs do their yearly payroll figuring.....How is this 9 mill going to count? Does this mean they average it out and now figure Silva at 2/15 with 7.5 counting each year? Does it mean they take 9 mill away from Silva's 12 mill THIS year? To where he's only counting 3 mill right now for the 2010 season possibly?

 

The reason it matters to me is the fact that our payroll is supposed to be in the 140-145 range and depending on how this is figured, it could give us some flexibility to make a move other than just Byrd or Podsednik(please god no). Maybe we could still have the money to go get Orlando Hudson. At any rate, I guess I'm just trying to come up with some sort of potential positive out of this crap.

 

And if anyone is going to the convention this year, it'd be nice if they could at least TRY to get Ricketts or Hendry to shed a little light on how these type of things are figured into the payroll.......

[Elrhino]

I can unsderstand a small budget team "blowing up" their roster to save money and constructing a younger, cheaper team, and I can understand a big budget team taking on payroll and constructing a (often older) team of proven, talent.

What Jim Hendry has accomplished over these past two offseasons seems, however, to be a confluence of the worst aspects of these approaches. He's let talented players walk (w/o draft pick compensation) to avoid hefty arbitration settlements, overpaid for "veteran" role players and traded away other talented players for in return for (or in order to replace them with) less talented high priced players. His approach to constructing a baseball team is bafflingly inconsistent.

 

It's a trait of any bad manager in any other industry ... he's just singularly concerned about putting out today's fire and crossing out the top bullet point on the "To Do" list for the sake of supposed progress.

Edited December 18, 2009 by Elrhino

[David]

Bruce Miles:

 

The deal is done. The Cubs have traded right fielder Milton Bradley to the Seattle Mariners for right-handed pitcher Carlos Silva. The Cubs also will net $9 million out of the deal. We'll hear from Jim Hendry this afternoon.

 

Silva's numbers are on today's earlier blog.

 

More to come.

 

 

Miles is saying the Cubs NET $9M? Aren't they technically grossing $9M and then netting the difference after the salaries are offset?

 

 

In other words... he makes it sound like we're saving $9M... that's not right, is it?

Edited December 18, 2009 by David

[ToupeeOnFire]

What does it say about Carlos Silva that the Mariners are willing to fork over $9 million dollars and take on a psychotic malcontent to be rid of him? Hopefully, they hide him deep in the bullpen.

[Keener98]

Yea wonderful. Hendry saved 6 million dollars so now he can go sign Scott [expletive] Podsednik to a 3 yr 18mil deal instead of a 2yr 12 million deal. Seriously, this trade is [expletive] indefensible but Im sure there are plenty of stupid [expletive] Cubs fans that are ecstatic about Bradley being gone. Idiots

 

The trade isn't that bad once you hear how much money the cubs saved. Though i still would've preferred Castillo from the Mets in some kind of deal. It makes you wonder that maybe the Rays weren't willing to take anything of miltons salary. It also depends on what hendry does with that money.

 

The money means jack [expletive] when the guy spending it is a [expletive] moron. Also the money means jack [expletive] when there really isnt anything available worth spending it on(excluding Bay and Holliday as we have no shot at them).

[David]

lol it's going to be painful when silva "wins" a rotation spot because of his salary