If any team can give Bedard a bounceback season, its the Rays.
davengmusic
Lefties are like cats. You think they’re dead, and they just keep coming back. Over and over and over. If you want to have an illustrious minor league career at the very least, learn to throw left handed or catch and call a decent game. Way to make it work, EB!
burnboll
I think of the great great Townes van Zandt song Poncho and Lefty.
Lefty lived on but left for Cleveland.
Save a few for Lefty too.
johnsilver
Comical how you put that. Tommy Hutton, long time color commentator on the marlins always said Jamie Moyer threw up a “dead fish” every game against his Marlins he was so tough vs them. At one time Moyer was like 12-0, 12-1.. They would chase everything he threw and it was a sick joke in a way watching them flail away at Moyer’s collection of off speed “junk”. A “dead fish” was the perfect word for what the Marlins were at the end of the game and only at the very last of his career did they beat him a game or 2.
davengmusic
You know what’s scary? You mentioned “long time color commentator on the Marlins”. It seems like yesterday I was reading about Nigel Wilson being their first expansion draft pick. 20+ years is a long time, but I’ve been around 15 years longer than that franchise. If Tommy Hutton is long-time anything, then I’m really starting to feel like a geezer.
Ron Loreski 2
Bedard is living proof that there’s always a job for a lefty.
GonzoBlogger
Why the M’s with only Charlie Furbush as a healthy proven lefty (and Paxton as a rookie, and Wolf/Miner as rehab projects) didn’t sign Bedard to come out of the pen, or in case of poor performance or insurance (Iwakuma, Walker), is beyond me. This is the team that invested vast sums in prospects (AdamJones/ Tilman/ Sherrill/ et al) and medical rehabbing (after Erik was one of very very few pitchers to come back from a serious labrum tear in his left shoulder) to secure the services of the this pitcher.
So why not now, when the man with one of the best curveballs in baseball is cheap> I don’t get what Jack Zduriencik was (or wasn’t) thinking here. Bedard is a solid bullpen conversion project that will add four or five years to this pitcher’s career.
livingpaint
Because of the fact that he has bad history here. They should bring Perez back over Bedard. Not that I wouldn’t mind having Bedard again coming out of the pen as a specialist, long reliever, or making a spot start. I just think management and fans would like to wash their hands of the whole thing. Kind of like Guti and his stomach ailments. Fans loved and hated him just like they “kinda liked” and hated Bedard.
Tim 26
One of the most unpleasant players you will ever meet or encounter. I hope he finds happiness in TB.
– An O’s Fan.
pft2
Didn’t like him much in his short stint with the Red Sox, dunno why.
RyÅnWKrol
I guess Bedard has sort of made a career out of being another Chris Capuano or Chad Gaudin (swing men). Something tells me he’d be more effective though with fewer starts and more long relief outings. Pretty good move for the Rays.
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phillies1102
If any team can give Bedard a bounceback season, its the Rays.
davengmusic
Lefties are like cats. You think they’re dead, and they just keep coming back. Over and over and over. If you want to have an illustrious minor league career at the very least, learn to throw left handed or catch and call a decent game. Way to make it work, EB!
burnboll
I think of the great great Townes van Zandt song Poncho and Lefty.
Lefty lived on but left for Cleveland.
Save a few for Lefty too.
johnsilver
Comical how you put that. Tommy Hutton, long time color commentator on the marlins always said Jamie Moyer threw up a “dead fish” every game against his Marlins he was so tough vs them. At one time Moyer was like 12-0, 12-1.. They would chase everything he threw and it was a sick joke in a way watching them flail away at Moyer’s collection of off speed “junk”. A “dead fish” was the perfect word for what the Marlins were at the end of the game and only at the very last of his career did they beat him a game or 2.
davengmusic
You know what’s scary? You mentioned “long time color commentator on the Marlins”. It seems like yesterday I was reading about Nigel Wilson being their first expansion draft pick. 20+ years is a long time, but I’ve been around 15 years longer than that franchise. If Tommy Hutton is long-time anything, then I’m really starting to feel like a geezer.
Ron Loreski 2
Bedard is living proof that there’s always a job for a lefty.
GonzoBlogger
Why the M’s with only Charlie Furbush as a healthy proven lefty (and Paxton as a rookie, and Wolf/Miner as rehab projects) didn’t sign Bedard to come out of the pen, or in case of poor performance or insurance (Iwakuma, Walker), is beyond me. This is the team that invested vast sums in prospects (AdamJones/ Tilman/ Sherrill/ et al) and medical rehabbing (after Erik was one of very very few pitchers to come back from a serious labrum tear in his left shoulder) to secure the services of the this pitcher.
So why not now, when the man with one of the best curveballs in baseball is cheap> I don’t get what Jack Zduriencik was (or wasn’t) thinking here. Bedard is a solid bullpen conversion project that will add four or five years to this pitcher’s career.
livingpaint
Because of the fact that he has bad history here. They should bring Perez back over Bedard. Not that I wouldn’t mind having Bedard again coming out of the pen as a specialist, long reliever, or making a spot start. I just think management and fans would like to wash their hands of the whole thing. Kind of like Guti and his stomach ailments. Fans loved and hated him just like they “kinda liked” and hated Bedard.
Tim 26
One of the most unpleasant players you will ever meet or encounter. I hope he finds happiness in TB.
– An O’s Fan.
pft2
Didn’t like him much in his short stint with the Red Sox, dunno why.
RyÅnWKrol
I guess Bedard has sort of made a career out of being another Chris Capuano or Chad Gaudin (swing men). Something tells me he’d be more effective though with fewer starts and more long relief outings. Pretty good move for the Rays.