Tag Archives: Bobby Bradley

19 Aug

patience, patience

Bobby Bradley homered again on Thursday, for the fourth time in his last seven games. The Harrison Central High product now has 26 homers and 94 RBIs, both totals leading the Class A Carolina League. The 6-foot-1, 225-pound lefty-hitting first baseman won the rookie Arizona League Triple Crown in 2014 and led the low-A Midwest League in homers in 2015 with 27. He is rated the No. 3 prospect in Cleveland’s system and No. 82 in all of the minors by mlb.com and has been anointed the Best Player in the Indians’ system this season by Baseball America. No doubt a lot of people are eagerly anticipating Bradley’s big league debut – and they might have to wait a while. His ETA is 2018, according to mlb.com. It might be later than that. Bradley is only 20. He still has things to work on. He is batting .249 against A-ball pitchers. He has struck out 152 times, which ranks third in the CL (Atlanta prospect Braxton Davidson leads with 165), though he is drawing some walks (.359 on-base percentage). Bradley is likely to play in Double-A next year, and that pivotal level will tell a lot more about how close he is to The Show. Patience isn’t so much a virtue in baseball as it is a requirement.

21 Jun

simply splashing

Of the 50 home runs Bobby Bradley has hit in the minor leagues, none could compare to the 11 he hit on Monday. All 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The Harrison Central High product took part in the Midway Classic, a home run derby competition between stars of the Carolina and California Leagues. They hit balls from the deck of the USS Midway, which is permanently docked in San Diego, where the Carolina-California All-Star Game will take place tonight. Bradley won his first-round matchup with six homers, then lost in the semifinals when he was out-homered 6-5. “It was a ton of fun,” he told milb.com. Bradley, 20, a lefty-hitting first baseman, is batting .242 with 15 homers and 56 RBIs in 64 games for Lynchburg, Cleveland’s high Class A team. He is rated the Indians’ No. 3 prospect by mlb.com and could be making a splash in the majors in a couple of years. P.S. Southern Miss’ Kirk McCarty tossed five shutout innings Monday to get a win for Orleans in the Cape Cod League. Mississippi State’s Jake Mangum – the Ferriss Trophy winner – had a three-hit game for Bourne and is batting .385 through three CCBL games. Fellow Bulldogs star Brent Rooker also had three hits Monday and is at .353 in four games for Brewster.

28 Apr

showing out

BB&T Ballpark in Winston-Salem, N.C., was the scene on Wednesday of an impressive display of hitting prowess from a couple of minor-league Mississippians with big-league aspirations. Gulfport native and ex-Harrison Central High star Bobby Bradley, one of the top prospects in the Cleveland organization, went 3-for-5 with a three-run home run as visiting Lynchburg beat the host Dash 12-6 in the Class A Carolina League clash. But even in defeat, Mason Robbins, a Leakesville native and former Southern Miss star, grabbed the headlines for Winston-Salem. Robbins hit for the cycle, getting both his first homer and triple of the season. It was the first cycle of Robbins’ career, “something you can cross off your bucket list in baseball,” he told milb.com. Robbins, a lefty-hitting outfielder, was a 25th-round pick in 2014 and isn’t among the ChiSox’s top-rated prospects. But he’s progressing in the system, hitting .275 for his career with 11 homers, 13 triples and 85 RBIs. Currently riding a hot streak, he’s at .259 with one homer, one triple and six RBIs in 2016. Bradley, a left-hitting first baseman, is batting .278 with five homers and 22 RBIs as a 19-year-old in the high-A Carolina League. For Bradley, who belted 27 homers in low-A ball in 2015, it’s not so much if he makes The Show as when.

25 Aug

tough crowd

Midwest League managers apparently are hard to impress. Bobby Bradley, the ex-Harrison Central High standout, leads the Class A league in home runs (27), RBIs (88) and slugging percentage (.538). But MWL skippers – there are 16 of them — did not see fit to vote Bradley to the postseason All-Star team at either first base or DH, much less name him the MVP. Ryan McBroom, hitting .324 with 11 homers, 82 RBIs and a .496 slugging average, took all three of those categories. The 23-year-old McBroom plays for Lansing in the Toronto system. The lack of league honors notwithstanding, the 19-year-old Bradley has had a heckuva year for Cleveland’s Lake County club in his first full pro season. He is currently rated the Indians’ No. 7 prospect by mlb.com, so he’s impressing somebody. The 6-foot-1, 225-pound lefty hitter was the Arizona League MVP last year, when he led the rookie loop in average (.367), homers (eight) and RBIs (50).

02 Aug

there it is

Bobby Bradley, the former Harrison Central High star, has rediscovered his home run swing. The lefty-hitting first baseman jacked two homers Saturday night for Lake County in the Cleveland organization and has four in his last five games. “Just trying not to do too much at the plate,” Bradley told milb.com. Bradley hit five bombs in eight days during a stretch in early June, then cooled off a bit. He had hit only one in July before going yard on Tuesday, then added another homer on Wednesday. He now has 18 for the year, tops in the Class A Midwest League, to go with a .252 average and 57 RBIs. Bradley has fanned 112 times in 294 at-bats, but at age 19 and in just his second pro season, his plate discipline will surely improve. He was the rookie-level Arizona League MVP in 2014, when he hit eight homers in 39 games, and took a big step up to the MWL this year.

07 Jul

razing arizona

Mississippians Bobby Bradley and Silento Sayles could be a Thunder and Lightning act for the Arizona League Indians. The 6-foot-1, 225-pound Bradley, a third-round pick by Cleveland out of Harrison Central High last month, is batting .351 with a home run, four doubles, nine RBIs and a .541 slugging percentage in nine games. The 5-9, 185-pound Sayles, a 14th-round pick out of Port Gibson High in 2013, is hitting .290 with four stolen bases in five tries and six runs in 10 games. Bradley, a third-team prep All-America selection by Baseball America, is a left-handed power hitter who belted six homers for Harrison Central this season. Sayles, a second-team All-America pick by BA last year, is a burner who set a high school record with 103 stolen bases as a senior. This is his second tour in the rookie level AZL; he hit just .186 with five steals in 31 games in 2013. The AZL Indians are off to an 8-6 start.