| Pitch Type | Veloc | H-Break | V-Break | Selection | Strike% |
| Curveball | 77.3 | -5.06 | -9.55 | 30.8% | 66.5% |
| 4-Seam | 90.4 | 4.96 | 8.70 | 29.5% | 63.6% |
| 2-Seam | 91.0 | 9.41 | 6.69 | 27.7% | 62.5% |
| Change | 78.2 | 6.23 | 3.22 | 8.7% | 58.8% |
| Cutter | 89.6 | 3.37 | 8.12 | 3.2% | 66.7% |
You can see that Bedard loves to throw the Uncle Charlie. You won't find too many pitchers that throw their curveball more than any other pitch, but Bedard has done it his entire career. The vertical drop on the pitch is right with some of the best curveballs in the league. Clayton Kershaw, this year's NL Cy Young award winner has one of the best curves in the league and his dropped an average of -9.13 inches per pitch in 2011. He controls the pitch well too with a 66.5% strike rate.
Bedard's next favorite pitch is the fastball. He throws a four-seamer and a two-seamer as most hurlers do. The two-seamer has a little bit more velocity and more movement on it than the four-seamer but he doesn't control it quite as well. In 2011, Bedard threw fastballs 57% of the time.
That pretty much makes Bedard a three pitch pitcher. He mixes in a change up around 9% of the time, which he doesn't command all that well but at 78 miles per hour it's a nice complement to his heat. He actually had a pretty solid 2011 whiff rate with the change at 11.3%.
The data shows Bedard throwing a cut fastball 3.2% of the time in 2011, but chances are that those were just two-seamers or four-seamers that were interpreted differently by the database. It's really all the same.
The velocity isn't great with Bedard, but he has a really good curveball and mixes it up well enough to have success. Bedard struck out 8.7 batters per nine innings while walking 3.34 in 2011. If he doesn't have his control on a given night, he could struggle, but when the guy is on his game, he's very hard to hit.