Bedard

[Lark11]

Bedard has missed a second start on the season. He's never thrown over 200 innings in his career, so maybe it was wise for the Reds not to mortgage the house on him.

Erik Bedard was scratched from his start for the second Sunday in a row because of inflammation in his left hip.
Cha-Seung Baek is starting in his place. Bedard made it through his outing Tuesday OK, but he began feeling the hip soreness again Friday. He'll throw a bullpen session Monday before the Mariners decide when to slide him back into the rotation.
Source: Seattle Times

[jsmith]

As we all knew, we needed to trade the farm to get that one big BAT to put us over the top.

What a funny, sickening game baseball can be sometimes.....

[marknjaye]

I do think we dodged a bullet there. Sometimes you get lucky. I don't think we would have traded both Bruce and Hamilton for Bedard and Volquez, respectively, but if we currently had Bedard and NOT Volquez, could you imagine the calls for Krivsky to be fired?

[The Duke]

I was very wary of Bedard, because of the asking price and his injury history. Even though it has never been too major at the MLB level, he just seems like a magnet for ticky tack injuries that will make him miss 4-6 starts a year. And this is while he was young as well, so I only expect this to increase as he gets older, and he will not be able to dodge the major injury bullet time and again. I'm glad the Reds held firm and kept Bruce and Cueto, as they will be the nucleus of the team going forward.

[Lark11]

Apr 14, 2008 7:41:38 GMT -5 The Duke said:

I was very wary of Bedard, because of the asking price and his injury history. Even though it has never been too major at the MLB level, he just seems like a magnet for ticky tack injuries that will make him miss 4-6 starts a year. And this is while he was young as well, so I only expect this to increase as he gets older, and he will not be able to dodge the major injury bullet time and again. I'm glad the Reds held firm and kept Bruce and Cueto, as they will be the nucleus of the team going forward.

Agreed. It's never a deal I wanted to see get done. The Orioles were asking far too much for a pitcher who has never thrown more than 200 innings in a season.

The injury risk, salary to be taken on, and the lost of cost effective prospects made the deal a non-starter in my book.

Krivsky did a great job of not pulling the trigger on Bedard or Blanton. Neither is worth what it would cost to acquire them.

[dukecrunchybagel]

Apr 14, 2008 13:24:07 GMT -5 Lark11 said:

Apr 14, 2008 7:41:38 GMT -5 The Duke said:

I was very wary of Bedard, because of the asking price and his injury history. Even though it has never been too major at the MLB level, he just seems like a magnet for ticky tack injuries that will make him miss 4-6 starts a year. And this is while he was young as well, so I only expect this to increase as he gets older, and he will not be able to dodge the major injury bullet time and again. I'm glad the Reds held firm and kept Bruce and Cueto, as they will be the nucleus of the team going forward.

Agreed. It's never a deal I wanted to see get done. The Orioles were asking far too much for a pitcher who has never thrown more than 200 innings in a season.

The injury risk, salary to be taken on, and the lost of cost effective prospects made the deal a non-starter in my book.

Krivsky did a great job of not pulling the trigger on Bedard or Blanton. Neither is worth what it would cost to acquire them.

I agree with you, Lark, and frankly, I am very pleased Krivsky stuck to his guns with those two. There is a very bright future begining in 2009 if we don't trade it away.