Interesting suggestion on Bedard, and am not at all closed to it .... There is a certain nibbly-ness to his look the first three games, no doubts there, as though he's feeling his way in the dark. He's circling the hitters warily, rather than diving in for the takedown.
1. Would like to know what the hitters' counts woulda looked like with the 10-12 strikes per half game.
2. The year and a half off buys him eight-ten starts with me, in order to get the command back.
3. Actually in his glory days, I thought he spotted that FB pretty surgically against that hook.
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That said, he used to be real aggressive with the high hard one up in the zone and we haven't seen much of that. He'd get four inches of the plate rather than four inches off it. "Trusting his stuff" may be the issue exactly.
Not sure it isn't anything that a recovered feel on the ball, and a coupla called strike threes, won't fix. We'll see.
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