San Diego ? Michael Barrett’s tussles with his teammates didn’t scare away the San Diego Padres, and neither did Milton Bradley’s outbursts.

The Padres acquired the temperamental Bradley from the Oakland Athletics on Friday, the second time in just more than a week that the two-time defending NL West champions added a player with a history of blowups.

“He’s 29-years-old, he’s been around the block and knows what’s expected,” Padres manager Bud Black said.

In exchange for the volatile outfielder, the Padres sent Oakland minor-league pitcher Andrew Brown. The Athletics are giving San Diego $1,360,929 to cover part of the approximately $2.05 million Bradley is owed for the remainder of the season.

“Hopefully it’s low risk and high reward,” general manager Kevin Towers said Friday, a few hours before the Padres opened a road series against their biggest rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers. San Diego led the Dodgers by just one percentage point in baseball’s tightest division, with the Arizona Diamondbacks a half game back.

Bradley is expected to join the Padres on Sunday, although it’s not clear how much he’ll play right away because he hurt his oblique in his last game with Oakland. The A’s designated him for assignment on June 21.

“When this guy is physically right, he’s quite a major-league player,” Black said. “We got to get him healthy.”

Limited to 65 at-bats this season because of three trips to the disabled list, Bradley is hitting .292 with two homers and seven RBIs.

“He’s shown an ability to play all three outfield positions, which gives us flexibility,” Black said. “He’s going to help us win games.”

Bradley, who agreed to a one-year, $4 million deal with Oakland in the offseason, always has been known as much for his volatile behavior as his baseball skills.

Bradley was suspended for the final five games of the 2004 season when he slammed a plastic bottle at the feet of a fan in the box seats in the right field corner at Dodger Stadium after someone threw it on the field. Nobody was injured.

In 2005, he accused Dodgers teammate Jeff Kent of a lack of leadership and an inability to deal with black players.

“There’s a different type of fire with him. I think it’s more emotional than maybe angry fire,” center fielder Mike Cameron said. “That’s who he is. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. We’ve all had a couple moments where we didn’t see eye-to-eye with things.”

Bradley had two run-ins with police during traffic stops in Ohio, one that landed him a three-day stay in jail and another that nearly sent him back for a second visit. When he was with the Dodgers, police responded three times to Bradley’s home on domestic-violence calls, but he wasn’t arrested or charged.

Towers said a number of factors outweighed Bradley’s temper.

He’s a switch-hitter, the Padres think he’ll improve their offense and outfield defense, and the cost was low.

“He has somewhat of a checkered past,” Towers said. “We certainly did our due diligence.”