All-Decade Team: Starting Pitcher
Quiz time:
Only two pitchers have won at least 20 regular-season games with the Wild Things and two more in the playoffs. Who are they?
(Insert final Jeopardy theme music here).
One, obviously, is Aaron Ledbetter, the Frontier League's all-time winningest pitcher. The other is a right-hander who came from an NCAA Division III school and spent two stints in affiliated ball.
Dave Bradley, who set the Division II single-season wins record (18) and had a 29-3 record over his final two years at Marietta College, was the mainstay of the Wild Things' pitching staff in 2002 and 2003.
Bradley was the first of many former Marietta standouts to sign with the Wild Things. After being released by the Cincinnati Reds, Bradley opted to continue his career with a first-year Frontier League team and be coached by another former Marietta pitcher, Kent Tekulve.
Bradley had a 21-9 record with the Wild Things and finished no lower than second in the Frontier League in wins each of his two seasons. Bradley was the winning pitcher in Game 2 of the Wild Things' playoff series against Kalamazoo in 2002. In the finals that year against Richmond, Bradley relieved Jared Howton in the rain-suspended Game 1 and was the winning pitcher.
Bradley was charged with the loss in Game 4 of the finals, and was a hard-luck loser in Game 1 of the playoffs series against Gateway in the 2003 playoffs. The latter game was played in rain and swamp-like field conditions.
After his days in Washington, Bradley was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers and made the Class AA Southern League All-Star game in 2005. After that season, Bradley was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the Class AAA phase of the Rule 5 Draft. He never did play at Class AAA, instead spending 2006 back in Class AA with Midland of the Texas League, where he had a 6-11 record as a starting pitcher.
All-Decade Starting Pitcher: Dave Bradley (2002-03)
Only two pitchers have won at least 20 regular-season games with the Wild Things and two more in the playoffs. Who are they?
(Insert final Jeopardy theme music here).
One, obviously, is Aaron Ledbetter, the Frontier League's all-time winningest pitcher. The other is a right-hander who came from an NCAA Division III school and spent two stints in affiliated ball.
Dave Bradley, who set the Division II single-season wins record (18) and had a 29-3 record over his final two years at Marietta College, was the mainstay of the Wild Things' pitching staff in 2002 and 2003.
Bradley was the first of many former Marietta standouts to sign with the Wild Things. After being released by the Cincinnati Reds, Bradley opted to continue his career with a first-year Frontier League team and be coached by another former Marietta pitcher, Kent Tekulve.
Bradley had a 21-9 record with the Wild Things and finished no lower than second in the Frontier League in wins each of his two seasons. Bradley was the winning pitcher in Game 2 of the Wild Things' playoff series against Kalamazoo in 2002. In the finals that year against Richmond, Bradley relieved Jared Howton in the rain-suspended Game 1 and was the winning pitcher.
Bradley was charged with the loss in Game 4 of the finals, and was a hard-luck loser in Game 1 of the playoffs series against Gateway in the 2003 playoffs. The latter game was played in rain and swamp-like field conditions.
After his days in Washington, Bradley was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers and made the Class AA Southern League All-Star game in 2005. After that season, Bradley was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the Class AAA phase of the Rule 5 Draft. He never did play at Class AAA, instead spending 2006 back in Class AA with Midland of the Texas League, where he had a 6-11 record as a starting pitcher.
All-Decade Starting Pitcher: Dave Bradley (2002-03)
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posted by Chris Dugan at
2:00 PM
3 Comments:
While reading all the All Decade everything from batboys to grounds keepers selections, it seems that the most overlooked player is Blake Ochoa. Blake has proven to be the most important player ever signed by the Wild Things. How is that? Mr. Ochoa was so inept at his craft that it finally got the ownership off their butts and prompted them to take some action.
Even though I generally don’t think owners should interfere with day to day operations the Wild Things
ownership has decided to do just that. It seems that already some of their decisions are, at best, questionable. I don’t think signing a manager to a five-year contract is wise, and having the Director of Stadium Operations in a position to help make evaluations on players is almost beyond comprehension. Time will tell how this all works out.
If Blake Ochoa had not performed so poorly during the 2011 season (not forgetting Ernie Banks, of course), I seriously doubt if the Wild Things ownership group would have done anything at all to try to improve the situation.
So, it is said that a new broom sweeps clean. Since Mr. Williams has pretty much fired everybody in the front office and hired new people, we will see how that theory works when it comes to baseball.
Thanks Blake…those that can’t play can also contribute by calling attention to just how bad things have gotten.
I'll never understand your infatuation with Blake Ochoa.
Chris, it's just that guy's ongoing desire to bash anything and everything about the Wild Things. Take away the blog comments and he'd probably call the suicide hotline within a day.
And it's the very reason why I and so many others, no doubt, no longer participate. But we still read your stories, keep it up.
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