Well, yeah I do. Anyway, awesome!

For everyone else we sign, we only have to wait until opening day to start watching them produce (or not). We gotta wait like…um…carry the two…4 or 5 months before we can see him back in action? Yikes.

I don’t hate him, and he’s quite good when he’s healthy, so I like this contract, and it seems like most people here like Bedard, but other forums and stuff like that, it seems like the fans hate him (likely because of the trade that brought him to Seattle). Am I observing correctly?

This is one of the moves I actually managed to anticipate a little this off-season. Now I just want it to pay off.

I am also delighted that I [hopefully] haven’t seen the last of that wonderful curveball.

Also, a front page post at this time of the day?!?! GMT! GMT!

as opposed to the last deal that brought Bedard to Seattle, which was like cutting your own hand off at the wrist with a swiss army knife.

The french should really play more baseball.

Also, I love the tight-lippedness of our front office. As Jeff says, it makes it somewhat easier to read what move they are thinking of in that if someone says something even remotely interesting about a player, then a move is probably close at hand.

I guess staying until 1 am to catch all the news of the day isn’t good enough anymore.

I like the idea of him getting healthy and strong and joining the team at a perfect time. With him being added in June, for instance, he bumps another, lesser pitcher out of the squad, opening them up to either be traded for something else more important or slotted to Tacoma in case somebody gets hurt. Hard to see where this kind of deal could go bad

I figure he owes the club a discount when he comes back. I realize that he was not responsible for Bavasi giving up the farm for him but he has cost the organization a lot and a little pay-back is called for. That said if he can give us a last half of this season equal to his first half of last season he should be square with the board. It does seem that some are a bit blind to the risk/reward fulcrum placement with Bedard at the moment though. There are valid reasons no other club signed him … and why the Z-Crew did.

(although it won’t be Opening Day when he pitches again…)

Is that asking too much if he comes back July 1? He was 1.9 WAR last year in 15 injury-plagued starts, so if he’s healthy (but not 100%), would 1.5 be unrealistic?

And You Can’t Have Him.

This really has been a crazy off-season. Also, YAY BEDARD!

And made me irresistible to the ladies. Well… more irresistible.

But I have to howl at the moon at bit because this is so what I wanted. I wanted him to come back and have a chance to be a kick ass pitcher for us and he has that chance and it isn’t going to cost an arm and a leg.

I loved everything he said today in the interview I read. He gets that this is an exiting team with a great manager, club house and that Felix and Lee are an epic one, two pitching punch. He also thinks Roland-Smith is going to break out this year. And finally him saying he would come in here and be the fifth starter, and be thrilled about it, also makes me happy.

I’m freak’n Happy. This M’s team is truly getting special. And I have a feeling even more good is coming.

One game in the ALDS.
One game in the ALCS.
One game in the WS. (And one late inning relief appearance that ESPN will talk about for the next five years.)

Erik Bedard’s incentive-laden deal could pay over $7.5 million, Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman reports.
The $7.5 million figure is what the 30-year-old made in 2009, a season cut short by injury. The left-hander is expected to sign a one-year deal worth a minimum of $1.5 million with the Mariners after undergoing a physical. Even if Bedard hits all incentives, Seattle will get plenty of value to make the signing worth the money.