Pirates Concerns Rise as David Bednar's Performance Falters

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00:00I am a little concerned here because this was going into the season the Pirates had at least

00:05some concerns with Chapman being gone. They traded him in the middle of last year. Chapman,

00:10by the way, still fantastic somehow. But George Bednar gave up another home run yesterday,

00:16a two-run home run, barely hanging it, you know, holding it down. I don't know that it was his

00:21fault the night before necessarily. O'Neal Cruz misplayed a ball and they had some nonsense

00:26happening there in Pittsburgh. But I don't think I'm overreacting here. I don't know that Pittsburgh

00:31locked this spot down. If Bednar, I would assume he's not going to pitch today or tomorrow even.

00:37But if we see what we saw last year quickly here, by the way, I don't know that they have another

00:44option here. I'm a little like, I mean, did Pittsburgh think this thing through going into

00:48the season? I think what you said there is the biggest problem, right? If not Bednar, who?

00:54All right. So if you're looking at it, it'd be speculative here. You play in a deeper league

00:57and you want to see, because you think Bednar's going to lose the job, and I think he is, but

01:00it's a matter of time. I'm not saying it's going to be this week or this month, but he's going to

01:03lose that job. Who? All right. We know they're not going out and getting closer. All right. That's

01:07not happening. Hell, if anything, they wish Bednar would pitch well so they could trade him, right?

01:11That's a cheap organization. They didn't do anything. So, listen, he was bad. If he would

01:17have cost me my under last night, I'd have been very angry, but he didn't. I just made it

01:20interesting. But what are you going to do? I mean, old clothes are somewhat valuable here,

01:26but he's definitely in that tier three, and he's going to lose that. He wasn't very good last year.

01:30All right. He may have had good save numbers, but other than that, his underlying numbers

01:34were terrible. So nothing's changed this year. And you're right. Game one wasn't his fault. All

01:37right. So he had a hard-hit ball, but O'Neal Cruz misplayed the ball. But the home run yesterday is

01:41certainly concerning again here. So there's red flags all over the place here. This is just a

01:45matter of time until he loses the job.