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7/7 - O's @ M's... Can we solve Bedard?

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SimplyZ Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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Bedard makes quick work of Wigginton.

Bad, bad, bad at bat there.

Yeah, it was an ugly swing but i think we are all overcritical of wiggy. He missed the one pitch he probably coulda hit, and it wasnt by much

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Bedard makes quick work of Wigginton.

Bad, bad, bad at bat there.

Wasn't a bad at bat. He was sitting curve with 2 strikes and couldn't react in time to hold off on the high heat.

He missed on a vicious cut on a 1-1 fastball that he guessed correctly on.

Bedard makes a lot of people look bad.

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Gotta advance the runners!!!

...and that's why.

Gonna disagree with you here. If you think the job of the #3 hitter with none on and none out in the top of the 1st is to "advance the runners" then Earl Weaver hates you. :) Wigginton was trying to get them in, not over. That's the right move without a doubt.
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Wasn't a bad at bat. He was sitting curve with 2 strikes and couldn't react in time to hold off on the high heat.

He missed on a vicious cut on a 1-1 fastball that he guessed correctly on.

Bedard makes a lot of people look bad.

This is true, but it was a bad result with runners on 1st and 2nd when you're hitting 3rd.

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SimplyZ Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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Wasn't a bad at bat. He was sitting curve with 2 strikes and couldn't react in time to hold off on the high heat.

He missed on a vicious cut on a 1-1 fastball that he guessed correctly on.

Bedard makes a lot of people look bad.

Thank you...this is the same way i felt

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So the day our three OF's get mentioned on ESPN's MLB front page, they load the bases against Bedard in the first. :D

Next season we'll have Wieters hitting somewhere between or after them...

Cmon scott, work the count

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Wasn't a bad at bat. He was sitting curve with 2 strikes and couldn't react in time to hold off on the high heat.

He missed on a vicious cut on a 1-1 fastball that he guessed correctly on.

Bedard makes a lot of people look bad.

Yeah, I know.

I just like to see contact.

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