Only in that they both sucked when they got on the bump. Other than that, I'm sure they're life story is very different.
Broderick is a prospect, who's shown nice promise. Sure, he's overwhelmed by the stress of reaching the bigs, but that's independent of his abilities. Bruney? Not a prospect, no future at all.
And you could improve your posts if you learned the difference between "they're" and "their". "They're" is a contraction of "they are", which obviously doesn't fit in your sentence.