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Our offense is still lousy, but I could see Bedard singlehandedly 'carrying' this team into the lead in July forcing the Big Bat acquisition we've all craved (I'm looking at you, Prince Gonzalez).  It's not likely he'll do so, but if he did come back in May as he hopes, that's just a monstrous 1-2-3 to have to face in ANY series, especially the playoffs.
One thing you have to give Erik, even if you despise the guy as a human being and a pitcher (which I most certainly do NOT), is he'd pitch with his brachial artery spraying blood all over the 1B side of the diamond if it meant advancing his team in the playoffs.  This is a guy who is, as you say, as fierce of a competitor as we've seen in Seattle.
Regular season, he'll pull himself from a game if he's hurting (which probably means currently enduring more pain than you and I could handle without a morphine drip), but I don't see pain standing in this guy's way when all the marbles are on the line.