“Our goal coming to the winter meetings was to get help in our starting rotation and that’s what we did today,” Bavasi said. “Horacio is a young left-handed starter who makes us better immediately.”

Well, that move at least did help somebody out…namely, local drug and grocery stores in the Puget Sound area who had a run on OTC stomach meds every time he started a game.

Bedard has a lot of potential for cryptic hilarity.

I am actually starting to love Bedard. Making for some great comedy.

Fastballs that flew past Boston’s flailing bats. Curves sharp enough to break the will of the Red Sox . Then, diving cut fastballs and tricky changeups.

So this is why Seattle traded five players to Baltimore for Erik Bedard.

”It was all right,” Bedard (4-3) said with a shrug of the shoulders.

The ace of few words gave more insight to whomever he was text messaging at his locker for five minutes instead of answering questions from the media.

Bummer, Mr AP guy. I guess instead of showing up half drunk and stoned to have sound bites handed to you you’re going to have to spend a little less of your time surfing for porn one-handed and, I don’t know, actually do a little work for your paycheck.

I do love the fact that when asked the difference between this start and his (9 run) last start in New York, Bedard’s one-word answer was “Location” — leaving them wondering if he was talking about pitches or geography. With a little tutoring from Ichiro, Bedard has a lot of potential for cryptic hilarity.

From Rotoworld:
Michael Silverman says the Mariners refused to part with J.J. Putz and Adam Jones and apparently made Putz untouchable in talks. So, Putz, a soon-to-be 30-year-old reliever with a career ERA of 3.47 in 205 innings, cannot be had in trade talks, but Rafael Soriano, a soon-to-be 27-year-old reliever with a 2.89 ERA in 171 innings,

can be had for a No. 4 starter

. Genius.

I guess he got his wish with Horrible Horacio

Also MSB we were told on December 7 of 2006:

“Our goal coming to the winter meetings was to get help in our starting rotation and that’s what we did today,” Bavasi said. “Horacio is a young left-handed starter who makes us better immediately.”

Don’t you love it.

last week we were told Joh was a problem as catcher because he asked the pitchers to throw more breaking pitches than fast balls.

on a side note, last night Nelly sided with Bedard on not having Joh as his catcher.

To paraphrase:

“Bedard doesn’t say much anyways, and having a catcher that already lacks some communication skills can really end up hurting a guy like Bedard.”

If the guy doesn’t want to talk – who cares. If he throws like last night is that not enough?