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Terry Francona: Erik Bedard will get lots of support ‘regardless of how he throws’ 08.01.11 at 6:46 pm ET
By Mike Petraglia

A relaxed Erik Bedard can look forward to being welcomed with open arms in Boston.

Terry Francona knows full well that a player with high expectations from Red Sox fans can face an almost unfair environment when they come to Boston in the midst of a heated playoff race.

Fans and expectations at Fenway can make it nearly impossible to focus on the job at hand.

But Francona said Monday if there’s one place set up to handle – and more importantly welcome – a new teammate like Erik Bedard it’s the Red Sox clubhouse.

“Guys have come in and struggled and it’s a little harder,” Francona said. “I think with a pitcher, it might be a little bit easier. He’s going to pitch his game, do his work. I think our clubhouse is an easy place to come into, too. I’ve been in a lot of clubhouses and ours is pretty easy. I think the personalities in there, they do a good job. Once you walk in and you’re one of us, you’re one of us. It doesn’t take very long.”

Bedard won’t have very long to wait to take that Fenway center stage as he starts on Thursday night against the Indians.

“I’ve never even really met Erik,” Francona said of the pitcher who is set to arrive in Boston on Tuesday. “Again, if he has a good first outing, it probably makes it easier for him. If he doesn’t have a good first outing, I think people in uniform, Theo [Epstein], we’re smart enough to know that it may take a couple of starts. He hasn’t pitched that much. It’s not the end of the world. I don’t know if fans necessarily react the same way. Sometimes that makes it harder on players, depending on their personality. But he’ll get a lot of support in the clubhouse, regardless of how he throws.”

Ah yes, the personality. There’s been lots of talk and speculation about how a quiet lefty, who had a reputation of keeping to himself in Baltimore and Seattle, will be able to handle the white-hot spotlight of Boston.

“The game’s the game,” Francona said. “The quicker he gets comfortable here I think it’s easier. The best way to get comfortable is to throw well. You saw Jason Bay came in the first game and got a hit and everything was real easy for him.”

Francona announced Monday that Bedard will make his Red Sox debut on Thursday in the series finale against the Indians at Fenway Park, but they are hedging their bets a bit to protect Bedard, who is coming off a knee injury that force him to miss nealy all of July.

“Bedard will pitch Thursday,” Francona said. “That way we can back up Lester and give him an extra day. So everybody slides back a day. We don’t have a day off till we leave and go to Seattle. Up to that point, we’ll stick with six starters.”

Francona added that he will have Andrew Miller in the bullpen on Thursday to back up Bedard, who just came off the disabled list after a knee injury. Bedard, who is 4-7 with a 3.45 ERA, lasted just 1 1/3 innings, allowing three hits and five earned runs last Friday in a start against Tampa Bay. He walked four and struck out just two in his first start since late June. For that reason, Francona said he will go with Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, Tim Wakefield, John Lackey, Andrew Miller and Bedard in the rotation.

“Andrew will be in the bullpen Thursday,” Francona added. “Bedard threw 57 pitches in an inning and two-thirds. It was almost like [a bullpen side session]. He hadn’t pitched in a month. The way we interpreted it from the Seattle guys is if he had pitched Wednesday, they were going to hold him to 75 or 80 so we probably need to stay close to that also.

“We’ll have Andrew out there just to keep an eye on our bullpen. If he doesn’t pitch in that game, he’ll take his normal turn in Minnesota and if he does, he’ll pitch Tuesday in Minnesota. And we can flip-flop [Wakefield and Miller].”

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