érik joseph bédard (pronounced "baydar"; born march 5, 1979) is a canadian former professional baseball pitcher. he pitched in major league baseball (mlb) for the baltimore orioles, seattle mariners, boston red sox, pittsburgh pirates, houston astros and tampa bay rays. with baltimore, bédard was the staff ace, setting the franchise single-season strikeouts per nine innings record at 10.93 in 2007.