Mets Talk About Acquiring Milton Bradley
The Mets are supposedly interested in acquiring OF Milton Bradley who was banned from Cleveland Indians camp the other day. He was banned because he left camp. Why did he leave camp? He was upset that he had been pulled from a game for not running out a fly ball. Why was he upset? Who knows? Anyone who doesn’t run out a fly ball at the Major League level (even in spring training) doesn’t deserve to play at that level. It’s one of the first things they teach you in little league and he can’t do it?
Anyway, I’m digressing from the point that I really wanted to get to with this post. Bradley is considered by most to be a clubhouse disturbance. Hardly a player of character. Doesn’t this go against one of owner Fred Wilpon’s criteria for acquiring players? Wilpon keeps saying he doesn’t want players who will cause controversy. This is a criteria I agree with. Do you break with that criteria to acquire Bradley? I don’t think so. The character issue plus the fact that you have to change his position (moving him from CF to RF since you already have Mike Cameron in center) is a distraction this team doesn’t need. If the season was in the stretch drive and the Mets needed one more player to put them over the top then Bradley may be worth the gamble. But not now.
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