Going Underground Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Has Kimbrel pitched in a regular season game yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Can_of_corn Posted March 31 Popular Post Share Posted March 31 Yea, he's had 780 regular season appearances. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O's84 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 9 minutes ago, Going Underground said: Has Kimbrel pitched in a regular season game yet? Not this season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Underground Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 13 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said: Yea, he's had 780 regular season appearances. Really ,I thought he might have gotten sent down with Jackson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snutchy Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 They said he would probably get work tomorrow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interloper Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 2 hours ago, Going Underground said: Has Kimbrel pitched in a regular season game yet? Is it that hard to check the box score from 3 games? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Underground Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 12 minutes ago, interloper said: Is it that hard to check the box score from 3 games? More of bad phrasing. Why has he not pitched in over a week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oriolediehard Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 2 minutes ago, Going Underground said: More of bad phrasing. Why has he not pitched in over a week? There was no save opportunities yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Fox Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 At 35 and with shaky overall postseason results I bet they won't do a lot of using him just to use him. Save the bullets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Underground Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 Just thought it was a little strange that he hadn't been in a game since March 20th. Thought they would have let him pitch an inning against the Angels. . I guess simulated and side sessions. As someone said he will probably be in the game tonight. Especially since the other two against the Royals look shaky to get played. I don't think the Orioles want to give him two weeks off between games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveA Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 3 minutes ago, Going Underground said: Just thought it was a little strange that he hadn't been in a game since March 20th. Thought they would have let him pitch an inning against the Angels. . I guess simulated and side sessions. As someone said he will probably be in the game tonight. Especially since the other two against the Royals look shaky to get played. I don't think the Orioles want to give him two weeks off between games. If you look at the relief pitcher usage for the last 4 or 5 games in spring training, none of the primary relievers pitched at all. They either piggy backed starters or used guys out of the pen who weren't going to make the team almost exclusively, starting around March 21. I thought it was kind of odd. I expect they were getting all the key relievers regular work in that last week between March 21 and the start of the season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportsfan8703 Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 One run saves are tough. I’m glad he got us out of the inning. 92-93 on his FB. Curveball got better as the inning went on. Let up a SB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony-OH Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 This is not an overreaction to his tough blown save last night (Hays absolutely should have called Gunnar off on that pop up), but I did not see closer stuff from Kimbrel last night. His fastball is down 2.7 MPH from last year when it was the lowest average velocity of his career up until then. He got zero whiffs on his 92.2 to 93.8 MPH fastball and batters were able to foul it off even when he was able to hit his spots. The lack of command of his knucklecurve could have been the rust of not pitching since Mar 20th in a game, but he only threw one for a strike and got one whiff on a chase by Bobby Witt on the K. Now the only good news is that I looked over his career and he traditionally throws slower in Mar/Apr and then ramps up by May, but the bad news is as far as I can see, that's the slowest average velocity that he's ever thrown in a big league game. Now let's add in the fact that he couldn't hold a runner to save his life last night allowing that bloop single to turn into a triple. As was noted in the game thread, neither could 6-foot-8 Bautista, but Bautista of course have an otherworldly strike out rate and he actually got better at holding runners through the year last year. Now maybe Kimbrel will improve, but let's be honest here, there is no way anyone is going to feel secure with him coming in and pitching in one run games for the save right now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Guy Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Zero concern right now. I’m sure he will be who we think he is. A slightly above average closer who will have some ups and downs. Was unlucky last night in terms of results. I noticed the velo down as well. I’m just going to chalk it up to rust at the moment and he may have been a little nervous.(first outing with new team) I thought Hyde should have gotten him in one of the first 3 games, especially the ninth on OD. Big lead, could ease into it, etc… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frobby Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 I can’t break it down like Tony just did, but I was pretty satisfied with Kimbrel’s outing other than his inattention to the baserunner. Two strikeouts, a fly out with a .000 xBA and a 70 mph bloop that probably should have been caught. Not bad, especially considering his last action was a spring training game 12 days before. The fastball was a bit slow, but he threw harder in spring training so I’m not that concerned. The baserunner thing did bother me, and could be an issue all year. Runners went 12-0 against him in 2023. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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