Bradford traded to Tampa Bay for player to be named later

[vab]

Good luck Chad. You caught a lot more grief on this board than you should have.

[square634]

PTBNL = Brignac? Fingers Crossed!

If its a waiver dodge, will they have to wait until the season is over?

Is Brignac on the Rays' 40-man roster? If not, he wouldn't have to pass through waivers. I think getting him would be doubtful anyway.

Edit: He is indeed on the 40-man roster, so it is possible.

[TonySoprano]

Did we really? He was claimed off waivers.

We could have pulled him back but we didn't.

[Sports Guy]

Hmmm...Gomes just sent to AAA too.

[DREKTUNES]

We could have pulled him back but we didn't.

Gotcha. Honestly, the whole waiver thing is a bit mysterious to me. As is velcro.

[Tony-OH]

We just cleared $3.5 million off our payroll for next year. With the additions of ground ball guys like Jim Johnson and Randor Bierd, who can both actually get left-handers out as well (although Bierd has struggled this year in the bigs with lefties), Bradford had become a little redundant. Besides, Bradford had become almost strictly a right-handed specialist and I'm not sure anyone wants him in a tight situation anymore since even right-handers have become to hit him a little more this year.

[Sports Guy]

DRays 40 man:

http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/team/roster_40man.jsp?c_id=tb

[furryburres]

Does anyone care to speculate if it's a top 15 player on the Rays?

*ahem*Brignac*ahem*

[DuffMan]

Nice to see that MacPhail is not against trading within the division.

[Mackus]

Highly doubtful that this is Brignac coming back, that just doesn't make sense for a variety of reasons, but the main one being Bradford isn't nearly worth him.

Gomes makes some sense though.

Bradford really was only worth about a organizational 15-20 guy, so there are lots of guys that this would be a decent move for.

[Sports Guy]

We just cleared $3.5 million off our payroll for next year. With the additions of ground ball guys like Jim Johnson and Randor Bierd, who can both actually get left-handers out as well, Bradford had become a little redundant. Besides, Bradford had become almost strictly a right-handed specialist and I'm not sure anyone wants him in a tight situation anymore since even right-handers have become to hit him a little more this year.

Totally agree...However, i would think AM wouldn't have dumped him just for salary reasons...I would think he got something useful in return.

[vab]

The PTBNL usually means they have a list of players they can choose from. Gomes could be one, I suppose.

[scOtt]

Nice to see that MacPhail is not against trading within the division.

Parts of the division at least...

[Tony-OH]

Does anyone care to speculate if it's a top 15 player on the Rays?

I'd be surprised if anyone more than a Scott Moore-type prospect. This has salary dump written all over it. Now if someone would just claim Jamie Walker we'd be gold.

[RVAbird]

Totally agree...However, i would think AM wouldn't have dumped him just for salary reasons...I would think he got something useful in return.

Agreed...and he wouldn't like the fanbase viewing this as simply a salary dump. I think there's got to be more to this, hopefully something intriguing.