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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