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Too early to give up. Gallen is very good, but he can be had and the bullpen is not perfect.

Dang, that play turned this from a 1-0 to a 3-0 game.

I hate seeing all the shade thrown at Urias, because I think he's a nice story or an over achiever, but yeah, that's a play he needs to make. He's bringing nothing at the plate so he has to bring plus defense.

Yeah, if you are in for defense, you have to make that throw. I mean Mayo can make that bad of a throw and then still hit home runs to make up for it.

Urias did not need to rush that throw.

I don't think so, I think he barely was off.

Terrible throw by Urias.

Not a good way to win games for sure.

I'm full service pop reference!

Run saving block for McCann there. At least for now.

Kremer's sinker is just nasty today.

Good Lord Gunnar is so accurate throwing on the run away from 1st base.

I feel like Cowser is going yard today.

The sliding catch was an 85% catch percentage catch so that was a good one for sure.

Clearly they are trying to keep Adley, Mounty and O'Hearn's bat in the lineup. Considering they started Kjerstad out there yesterday, they are not afraid of putting a below average defensive outfielder out there.

Nope, perfect pitch,

That Kremer 2-seamer was Greg Maddux-like. Impressive.

Corbin Carroll is quite awful right now. Crazy how bad he is after last season.

Got to admit ,arguing over who gets a game ball after a win is a new one for me and that's saying something!

Luckily it looks like these storms are building up south and east of the stadium.

It's pouring here in Pasadena.. Hopefully it stays south and the game will be delayed for a bit.

Ryan O'Hearn in LF is one of the more crazy defensive alignments that I've seen in some time.

Let's talk a little about about how good Cano has been for the Orioles this year. He was fired up last night in his first true save opportunity this year. Here's his percentiles on the year so far. Notice his AVG exit velocity may be low, but the fact that he's the best in the league with getting ground balls (72.2 %, 100 percentile) makes most of those ground ball outs. But here in lies the problem with him closing. We lose him as a weapon coming into tight jams in the 7th or 8th to get those double plays. I have no doubt Cano can be a closer even though he had some struggles last year when given the role after Bautista's injury. It's worth noting that he's averaging about a MPH slower than last year in his sinker, but getting more movement. There are only 8 pitchers this season who have thrown 50 or more changeup and averaged over 90 MPH. Cano has the most vertical movement and 3rd best % Break vs AVG at 10% better than the average changeup at his velocity +/- 2 mph. Since this is a Cano thread, I won't go into who should close instead of Cano, but for now, I expect the Orioles to use him and Coulombe to close out games depending on who is available. Imagine the uproar that would have occurred if the Orioles had traded Jorge Lopez straight up for Cano. Instead, not only did Elias get a much better reliever in Cano, he also got the best pitching prospects in the system currently in Cade Povich. Oh, and Juan Nunez is still at least interesting in Aberdeen topping out around 97-98 at times.