{"id":3780,"date":"2013-06-07T05:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2013-05-29T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:15:14","slug":"304-chad-bradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/304-chad-bradford\/","title":{"rendered":"#304 – Chad Bradford"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chad<\/a>Name:<\/strong> Chad Bradford<\/p>\n

Rank:<\/strong> 304<\/p>\n

Position:<\/strong> P<\/p>\n

Years With White Sox:<\/strong> 1998-2000<\/p>\n

Chad Bradford was first drafted by the White Sox in the 34th round of the 1994 draft, but he didn’t sign. \u00a0They tried again 2 years later, taking him again in the 13th round, and this time he signed 2 days later. \u00a0He worked his way through the minor leagues and eventually made his major league debut in 1998, getting called up to take Matt Karchner’s place after he was traded to the Cubs for minor league pitcher Jon Garland.<\/p>\n

For the next 3 years, Bradford bounced back and forth between Chicago and Charlotte, putting up tremendous numbers in Triple A and pretty good numbers in the big leagues. \u00a0While the White Sox seemed unsure about Bradford’s prospects as a full time major league pitcher, he caught the eye of Billy Beane, and following the 2000 season, the A’s traded for him, sending minor league catcher Miguel Olivo as a player to be named later to seal the deal.<\/p>\n

Bradford\u2019s\u00a0numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n

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Name: Chad Bradford Rank: 304 Position: P Years With White Sox: 1998-2000 Chad Bradford was first drafted by the White Sox in the 34th round of the 1994 draft, but he didn’t sign. \u00a0They tried again 2 years later, taking him again in the 13th round, and this time he signed 2 days later. \u00a0He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,861,3459,2348,886,3460,3461,49],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-billy-beane","tag-chad-bradford","tag-charlotte-knights","tag-jon-garland","tag-matt-karchner","tag-miguel-olivo","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Wins<\/span><\/th>\nLosses<\/span><\/th>\nERA<\/span><\/th>\nSaves<\/span><\/th>\nIP<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nER<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nHBP<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0.00<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0.667<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n4.13<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n48<\/span><\/td>\n49<\/span><\/td>\n28<\/span><\/td>\n22<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n20<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n44<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n