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• Bradley, Cubs agree to $30M, 3-year deal

  - 2009-01-06

  CHICAGO AP -- The Chicago Cubs and free agent Milton Bradley reached a preliminary agreement Monday on a $30 million, three-year contract, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The deal is subject to a physical scheduled for Thursday, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity...

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• Player tests power of words

  - 2008-07-09

  Web Watch Milton Bradley, New York Times blogger Milton Bradley has reported for duty at The New York Times. That's the Texas Rangers player who stormed up four flights of stairs at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium on June11...

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• Phillies and Lidge hold off Rangers

  - 2008-06-29

  ARLINGTON, Texas - Brad Lidge had been left for dead in the Phillies' bullpen the last couple of weeks.He hadn't had many save opportunities. None since June 12.That changed Saturday night when Lidge picked up his 19th save in an 8-6 victory over the Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark. It...

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• Padres will be without Bradley

  - 2007-09-25

  SAN DIEGO -- Padres left fielder Milton Bradley will miss the rest of the season after he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee when he was spun to the ground by his manager during a blowup with an umpire. Bradley, who helped spark the wild...

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• 'I just figured it out': Bradley's turnaround has been felt by new

  - 2007-09-09

  SAN DIEGO -- Milton Bradley feels he's a better baseball player, a better person. For a year and a half, he says, he's been putting the interests of his little boy ahead of his own. Playing for his fifth team in eight big league seasons, he...

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• Padres benefit from bargain hunting

  - 2007-09-05

  He wavered and made dozens of calls before San Diego Padres general manager Kevin Towers decided the risk was worth it. He traded in late June for temperamental outfielder Milton Bradley of the Oakland Athletics, giving up minor league pitcher Andrew Brown. It might be the...

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• Letters | An ineffective Manuel is no manager of year

  - 2007-09-02

  It must be busy around the Kool-Aid pitcher in the press box, what with Bob Ford (Aug. 26, Believe it: Manuel is manager of the year) joining his colleagues among the Phillies' management apologists. It was good to learn that I'm a "howling" - as opposed to laughing? - "hyena."...

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• Plan for A's to win in '08

  - 2007-08-05

  NO MATTER what Billy Beane and Co. accomplish in the next few months, they must re-sign our 2007 MVP, Shannon Stewart. In 2008, an outfield of Stewart, Mark Kotsay and Travis Buck could be pretty dominant. Put Nick Swisher at first, with Jack Cust occasionally playing the...

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• Baseball Notes | Padres trade for OF Bradley

  - 2007-06-30

  Baseball Notable The San Diego Padres acquired  Milton Bradley  from the Oakland Athletics yesterday, the second time in a week the defending National League West champions added a player with a history of blowups.In exchange for the volatile outfielder, the Padres sent minor-league pitcher  Andrew Brown  to Oakland. The Athletics...

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• Wednesday sports mailbag

  - 2007-06-27

  Crying wolf about racism I FOUND IT irresponsible and unfair, if not libelous, not that Dave Del Grande ("A's whitewashed by Beane, Mets") believes Milton Bradley was released by the A's because he is black, but that he made such an assertion in print without any supporting evidence --...

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