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I believe that Bedard's chief injury risk has been and will continue to be his tendency to labor unnecessarily..gamely refusing to throw anything but his K pitches to even inferior hitters who he should be going right after. The most annoying thing in the world to me is watching Bedard have an 11 pitch at bat against some pounk like Blanco who has no power and is not dangerous because he keeps trying to get the kid with located curve balls rather than just blowing up his hands with a good jam pitch like he can and accepting the groundout.
I think he would do well to just pound the strikezone...his pitches are good enough to cause a ton of weak contact if he'd aim for the dead center of the plate and let them move around on their own. But he's always trying to be an artist and he wastes more pitches than he should. The career 17.4 P/Inning ratio is HORRIBLE for a guy with his stuff.