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Actually, he's added more horizontal movement and a little less vertical to his curveball making it less of a 12-6 curveball going from 8.6 inches to 11.3 this year. He also throws it just 11.2% of the time vs 27.2% (2nd most of his pitches) when he first arrived. On top of it, since it's his 4th pitch, he's throwing it over more for strikes as a get me over since batters aren't looking for it. The biggest improvement to his repertoire is his changeup, which was terrible in the minor league

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Good outing by Kremer tonight, and nice to see a turnaround after 4 of his 5 July starts were bad. He had the right approach against a weak Pirates lineup and threw a lot of strikes, leading to several quick innings.

If we had a better night with RISP Hyde probably doesn't need to have as quick a hook. 

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Kid did a great job tonight.  Exciting effort.

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You mean 1/3 of a season of Manny, who was never going to resign with an Orioles team on the verge of a complete teardown and rebuild?  Even if Kremer is the only real value the Orioles got back they

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Adley is nothing if not positive and full of cliches.   Crash Davis taught him well.   

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43 minutes ago, Spy Fox said:

Good outing by Kremer tonight, and nice to see a turnaround after 4 of his 5 July starts were bad. He had the right approach against a weak Pirates lineup and threw a lot of strikes, leading to several quick innings.

If we had a better night with RISP Hyde probably doesn't need to have as quick a hook. 

13 baserunners, 1 run, not good.

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Really nice outing from Kremer last night, throwing 6.1 scoreless.  He had several really quick innings.  He had both his breaking pitches working and was throwing them for strikes.   Really encouraging outing after he’d gone through a little rough patch. 

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1 hour ago, Ripken said:

Gutty performance tonight.  Didn't have all of his pitches working and gave up 3 runs early but settled in and just missed a quality start.  Like what I'm seeing.

I liked he seemed pretty upset that Hyde pulled him with two outs in the 6th and wanted to finish that inning.  Hyde needs to learn that Vespi is not a match up type pitcher and going lefty lefty not an advantage for us with his splits.  

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I liked he seemed pretty upset that Hyde pulled him with two outs in the 6th and wanted to finish that inning.  Hyde needs to learn that Vespi is not a match up type pitcher and going lefty lefty not an advantage for us with his splits.  

Yeeaahh, I really didn't like pulling him there.

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Gritty effort for Kremer. He had nothing early but gutted through that outing. It’s tough the bullpen coughed up that 4th run. He pitched his butt off tonight. 

He could have finished Martinez off instead of walking him.  He deserves some of the blame.

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I liked he seemed pretty upset that Hyde pulled him with two outs in the 6th and wanted to finish that inning.  Hyde needs to learn that Vespi is not a match up type pitcher and going lefty lefty not an advantage for us with his splits.  

He won’t. He’ll continue to match up Vespi with LHB even though the numbers don’t support it. 

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I can’t say enough about Kremer’s poise he showed last night. He could’ve easily buckled after going down 3-0. He and Adley did a great job working around the fact that he just didn’t have it early on last night. 

And last year he definitely would have crumbled. So glad the brain trust saw enough in him to stick with him, that's for sure.

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He won’t. He’ll continue to match up Vespi with LHB even though the numbers don’t support it. 

I am not sold on Vespi yet. He's looked ok at times, but if he isn't feeling his slider he leaves it on a platter.  The pitch to Hosmer last night was on a 1-2 slider and Vespi frisbeed it up and over the plate for the terrible Eric Hosmer to destroy. If you get a 1-2 slider pitch called, you better bury it.

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He won’t. He’ll continue to match up Vespi with LHB even though the numbers don’t support it. 

He hangs the slider at times but at Norfolk he faced about 30 LH hitters and NOT EVEN ONE got a hit off of him.   2 walks.  9 strikeouts.   He actually struck out more RH hitters at Norfolk but in terms of walks and hits he was dominant against LH batters.   His stuff makes LH batters look silly when he keeps it down.   The pitch before the double Hosmer was in desperation mode and did a great job to foul the pitch off.   Give the hitter credit.   Vespi made a mistake on the next pitch.  

As far as Kremer, he looks good at times but he lost Martinez after getting ahead of him and he makes his own share of mistakes.

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