ShareThisMajor League Baseball's general manager meetings came and went this week with Milton Bradley still employed by the Chicago Cubs, who want to dump the outfielder ASAP after his lousy season that ended with a suspension for his lousy conduct.
The Cubs have a serious case of buyer's remorse, but they're not the only team with a wildly regrettable contract.
As the offseason unfolds, expect a bunch of teams to try to dump bad contracts, knowing they'll need to eat millions and/or trade their busts for other teams' busts.
Tops on the list is Bradley, who's due $21 million the next two years and trash-talked his way out of the North Side. Cubs GM Jim Hendry wants to trade Bradley before the winter meetings begin Dec. 7 so he can focus on other matters. The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays have emerged as targets.
San Francisco Giants GM Brian Sabean told the Chicago Tribune he wouldn't pursue Bradley in a mega-deal-for-a-mega-deal. Barry Zito will make $83 million through 2013, Aaron Rowand $36 million through 2012.
"A deal like that? For a player like that?" Sabean said. "No. Is that succinct enough? I don't know that addition by subtraction would work. Smarter people than us have tried that."
Almost every team is stuck with undesirable contracts.
Gary Matthews Jr. is owed $23 million through 2011 and desperately wants out of Anaheim, figuring he could be a productive full-time player elsewhere, which is debatable. Toronto's Vernon Wells has six years and $107 million remaining -- the Cubs denied a Bradley-for-Wells report -- and Cleveland's Travis Hafner gets $40.25 million the next three years.
Arizona's Eric Byrnes will make $11 million in 2010 and recently hinted he expects to be gone. Tampa Bay's Pat Burrell will make $9 million, and Detroit's Dontrelle Willis $12 million. Oakland's Eric Chavez is due another $15 million.
Trading fat for fat is rare, but nothing's impossible. The White Sox were kind enough to take Alex Rios off Toronto's hands last summer, assuming all $59.7 million he's due through 2014, and the Blue Jays gave up nothing.
It won't be that easy with Bradley.
(E-mail John Shea at jshea(at)sfchronicle.com.)
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
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