Mailbag: Can Bedard return to form?
MLB (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Mailbag: Can Bedard return to form?
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Pitching Runs in 2008
Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
ERA is one of the best performance measures among traditional baseball statistics but it does have limitations. Like batting average and slugging percentage, ERA is unaffected by sample size and thus does not take durability into consideration. For example, Erik Bedard’s 3.67 ERA last year was better than A.J. Burnett’s 4.07 ERA. However, Bedard started just 15 games and Burnett...
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This Doesn’t Smell Like Rebuilding
Bleeding Blue and Teal (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
... Kenji Johjima are untradeable. Jarrod Washburn would bring back hardly anything. Injuries killed Erik Bedard and JJ Putz’s value. The only players that even come close to fitting the mold are Adrian Beltre and Ichiro Suzuki, but Beltre is thought to be so underrated outside of Seattle that the Type-A compensatory picks garnered for letting him walk via free agency could outweigh any...
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Miller
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Let's just say that the Mariners for too long have been thoroughly uninspired in their thinking (Mike Hargrove as manager), have spent vast amounts of money unwisely (Richie Sexson, Carlos Silva, Scott Spiezio and Kenji Johjima) and have gambled away their future on short-term prayers (how many players did they ship to Baltimore for Erik Bedard').
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The Schmuck Stops Here: MacPhail needs to sign Markakis now
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... him well in a lot of cases. I don’t hear too many people complaining about the returns in the Erik Bedard and Miguel Tejada trades, which took quite a while. But this is one case where I think MacPhail and the Orioles would be best served throwing caution to the wind. Use the seven-year, approximate $70 million deal that the Toronto Blue Jays signed outfielder Alex Rios to as a model...
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The Schmuck Stops Here: Debunking Roberts theory
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... rebuilding process, few players were definite to be Orioles on Opening Day. It’s a good thing that Erik Bedard and Miguel Tejada didn’t make the final cut. By the way, I still think Roberts is traded in early January after attempts to reach a contract extension with the second baseman go nowhere.
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Relief Pitcher: Was K-Rod in NYC for Physical?
MetsBlog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... these reports have a tendency to hit the center of the mark… “The same thing happened with the Erik Bedard trade to the Mariners last winter. A report out of Diario Panorama in Venezuela said the Mariners had pulled star prospect Adam Jones out of winter ball and were shipping him to Baltimore for a physical. The M’s denied it, but all it did was stall a deal that was eventually finished.”...
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Meanwhile, in the Oriole system...
Rattler Radio (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Baseball America has begun publishing their Top 10 Prospects. They began with the Baltimore Orioles . An-ex-Rattler checks in at #2. This is from behind the subscriber wall . Background: By just about any measure, the deal that brought four prospects and George Sherrill from Seattle for Erik Bedard was a steal for the Orioles, and Tillman could be the biggest prize of all. As the youngest...
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Offseason will be dictated by what Yankees do
Fox News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... trades. The players swapped between the last pitch of 2007 and the first of 2008 included Erik Bedard, Miguel Cabrera, Matt Garza, Troy Glaus, Josh Hamilton, Dan Haren, Carlos Quentin, Scott Rolen, Johan Santana , Nick Swisher, Miguel Tejada, Dontrelle Willis, Jose Valverde, Edinson Volquez and Delmon Young.The free-agent class last offseason was horrible, which motivated trades....
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Offseason Plan #1
Bleeding Blue and Teal (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... ($400K) LR: Miguel Batista, R ($9M) SP: Felix Hernandez (arbitration eligible, up from $540K) SP: Erik Bedard (arbitration eligible, up from $7M) SP: Carlos Silva ($11M) SP: Ryan Rowland-Smith ($400K) SP: Brandon Morrow ($400K) With this roster the payroll drops from almost $118M in 2008 to about $87M. First of all, this offseason plan is pretty low key, featuring just one trade and...
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Blalock Rumor
Bleeding Blue and Teal (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
... pitcher, but there is one potential deal that makes a little bit of sense to me. Hank Blalock for Erik Bedard. Both are one season away from free agency, both are likely to spend time on the DL, and both are among the best when they’re healthy. It’s kind of like a bad contract swap, but instead of trading ridiculous salaries you’re essentially trading injuries. Both teams enter into...
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The Talented Mr. Roto: Indecent proposal
ESPN (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
... And there are many people who feel I owe them for bad fantasy predictions, like benching or my Erik Bedard/Jeff Francoeur man-love at the start of baseball. Bill and I taped a very funny "" going through the best of them on Monday.Yup, it was an insane list of stuff and I haven't even told you the half of it. And frankly, I expected a lot of it. Bill has a huge following and there's...
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Mariners Starting Rotation Slotting
Bleeding Blue and Teal (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... staff into defined roles, so head over to their site before continuing on. Felix Hernandez - 1.5 Erik Bedard - 2.75 Carlos Silva - 4.25 Jarrod Washburn - 4.5 Based on the averages of where the starters landed in each stat category on Royal Review’s chart for 2008, Hernandez was the closest thing Seattle had to an ace, but wasn’t quite there. The injured Bedard pitched like...
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