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Raul Ibanez who is tearing up the NL was available as was perennial 40 home run, 100 RBI guy Adam Dunn. Bobby Abreu, another player who knocks in over 100 ribbies every year was another option and signed for only $5 million this year.
I know Dunn is really a DH, but that’s what the injury prone Bradley has been doing the majority of the time for the past few years.
Hendry zeroed in on Bradley and never even contacted the other candidates. He gave him a three year contract for $30 million dollars. That’s $78 million worth of right fielders in just the last two years alone.
Meanwhile on the other side of town, White Sox GM Kenny Williams signed right fielder Jermaine Dye before the 2005 season for three years at a little over $16 million for the term of the contract.
Dye was the MVP of the World Series for the Sox in 2005 and has averaged over thirty-four homers and 95 RBI’s per season since that signing. He’s still playing right for the Sox and is a valuable piece if they decide to try to trade him before the deadline this year.
The one thing every player Hendry signed has in common aside from the fact that they’re bad is that they all bat left-handed. Batting lefty is more important than being a quality player.
This is a perfect example just in Chicagoalone why Hendry is so inept at his job. In addition to the Dye signing, Williams has also made some slick additions at the expense of giving up little or nothing in return.
He received superb lefty bullpen pitcher Matt Thornton for first round bust Joe Borchard, while Hendry received nothing of quality in return for Corey Patterson, who despite his failures was a much better ballplayer than Borchard.
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