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Tough at bat by Cowser here...

Got to imagine he gets the 10th.

Hyde/Sigbot is convinced the hitter's splits are not as important number as the pitcher's splits. Hyde will always go left on left every time. I wouldn't, but he does. I personally would have gone with Suarez.

I hope Kimbrel donates a game worth of his paycheck to a local charity. He certainly did not earn his money today.

The Orioles are lucky that the base runner did not go to 2nd on that wild pitch. BTW, Akin doesn't warm up quickly well.

No Ben, that was not "nothing McCann" could do. He tried to backhand it and did not center his chest.

A comma is needed here....

You aren't going to get close calls when you are all over the place like Kimbrel was.

Time to end this Kimbrel as closer situation. Just like last year, he got taken out of the role. Maybe he'll put it together later in the year, but he just can't command anything right now.

3-1, 3-1... Good Lord

Got away with middle-middle 2-0.

Oy, here we go... Bad Kimbrel is back.

Can't walk that guy. Just can't. That's embarrassing.

Kimbrel knew that was gone. Never turned around.

I'm starting to think Gunnar might be pretty good.

Bad base running by Adley there.

Did she call it a sky ball or screech when it went over the fence?

Santander did not miss that one.

Seems whenever one of these two teams are good and the other is bad, the bad team wins. Not saying this is over.

Thanks for the heads up. Watching at restaurant but can't hear it.

I'm tired of the back and forth and told both of you to stop. SG stopped. You can't help yourself. I've attempted to be nice, but you just want to be a jerk. The next time you troll someone or ignore moderations, I will help you out the door. Respond to me back in any other way other than "I understand," I will help you out the door. If you don't like it, see your way out. I honestly can't be any more clearer than that. Have a great day.

I hope so. They are being very cautious with his pitch count still, but he's ben very consistent. Time to see how his stuff plays against High-ball hitters. I think he will do just fine there though he may give up a little more louder contact at first.

He gets a lot of weak ground ball and Baltimore chops which allows him on occasion to get a quick out. He can miss bats when he needs to but he also is not afraid to pitch to contact this year because of the movement of his pitches.

I've been following since I heard about his spin rates and velocity two years ago. I kind of dropped him off after last season at Bowie when he just really didn't command anything and lefties lit him up for a .287/.415/.475/.890. It appears to me that he's ditched the slider with the bigger downward break and gone to this cutter with the quick late break. All I know is that he was impressive the couple times I watched him this year and the improvements are seen in the stats with the lack of walks and high K rate. How good is that spin on the cutter? Only 7 major league pitchers have averages above his 2677 spin rate. They include Corbin Burnes, Dylan Cease, Sonny Gray, and JP France. It appears to me that he throw two different type of cutters, with one being slower and having slider movement. He threw 12 cutters: 8 had 0-7 inches of Horizontal movement and 23-30 Vertical movement 4 had 12-19 inches of Horizontal movement and 30-33 Vertical movement The highest average horizontal movement in the MLB is by 7.3 inches by Chris Flexen (so the 12-19 inches of horizontal are off the charts by cutter standards) Vertical movement is supposed to be a lower number like a fastball so the best is 14.3 by David Robertson. It's hard to even find a comp for Strowd's cutter velocity and vertical wise. When I look at major league movement on cutters and sliders, it appears to me that he's throwing a sorta hybrid cutter/slider which may be given batters fits because they are not use to seeing that. Either way, he's become real interesting.

It was not a ridiculous post from me and I'd be cautious on not taking moderation. Who is "boxscore bob" then if you were not referring to Sports Guy? Trolling is when you constantly bring a poster back into your argument when they are not engaging with you at that point. If you don't understand that, and can't calm down, perhaps the Hangout is not the place for you. Are you Cade Povich's friend or relative, because typically when we have a poster like you who are only here because of one player, they typically a family member or friend and they don't play well with anyone who shows the least amount of criticism towards their player. I've been doing this for 27 years now. You are not the first or last to come in here and battle with Sports Guy or anyone else that someone "criticizes" your player. My suggestion would be to take a deep breath, or maybe just take a little time away from the board until you can communicate calmly.