Alfredo Simon stinks

[MZ HAMMER]

I am tired of Alfredo Simon blowing save after save for us

He had 2 outs and nobody on and still couldn't come thru

This is inexcusable. We should give somebody like David Hernandez

a chance to be our Closer

[Hank Scorpio]

Stop.

Hammertime.

[skanar]

I'm definitely more in agreement with sdmarkakis, but Simon does have a penchant for blowing games in particularly dramatic ways. Tonight, 2 outs, nobody on, ending it with a 3-run homer. Plus there was this game.

[Ommaculate]

Replace "Alfredo Simon" with "The Orioles"

[crowmst3k!]

I know it was you, (Al)Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

[MZ HAMMER]

Good one Hank. I had to think of catchy name and that was the first

thing that came to mind. I see ur point about 15/18 saves. I'm just so tired of losing, maybe frustration got the best of me. I'm just a diehard orioles fan I feel we have the pieces to win. I love Orioles Hangout and I will be a plus member sometime next week to be officially part of the family

[Moose Milligan]

I'm definitely more in agreement with sdmarkakis, but Simon does have a penchant for blowing games in particularly dramatic ways. Tonight, 2 outs, nobody on, ending it with a 3-run homer. Plus there was this game.

This is true. I was listening on the radio and I just knew it was coming.

[Hank Scorpio]

Good one Hank. I had to think of catchy name and that was the first

thing that came to mind. I see ur point about 15/18 saves. I'm just so tired of losing, maybe frustration got the best of me. I'm just a diehard orioles fan I feel we have the pieces to win. I love Orioles Hangout and I will be a plus member sometime next week to be officially part of the family

Welcome aboard, broski.

[The Rick]

This is true. I was listening on the radio and I just knew it was coming.

Yup. I'm in the OBX for vacation and turned the game off in the bottom of the 9th. I just had that feeling in my stomach and didn't want to deal with it. This week is all about no stress. I wake up this morning, check my Twitter, and sure enough there's Britt informing me that we lost a walk off. Unreal.

[RShack]

Simon pitched over his head when we needed him to. Which is a good thing.

But, like Ohman, he was dodging bullets the whole time.

DH is gonna end up being the closer, it's just a question of when...

[JohnD]

I've made a habit of going to bed after the 7th or 8th inning so I never have to watch that kind of thing happen. I don't trust Simon and wish the Orioles went with Hernandez instead. I know Simon has been pretty solid of late, but he can make it way too interesting, too often, and I'd still feel better if a change was made. I like Simon as a power arm late in the game, just not that late.

[Steve I]

win some, lose some, we just lose more then our share of games. Team was in a position to win and the save was blown. So he has blown 3, that is not too bad given how the rest of the team has performed. Until Simon starts stringing together blown saves, he gets the ball.

[LA2]

Simon doesn't stink. The tactical idiocy of automatic closer-ing stinks. I didn't watch the game last night, but is there any performance-based reason why Uehara (or even Gonzalez) shouldn't have continued into the 9th inning?

[Frobby]

I turned my TV off just as the ball was sailing into the seats. You could just tell something bad was going to happen, the way that Simon was struggling in the preceding pitches and his efforts to clean his spikes, etc.

I don't see Simon as a shut-down closer, but 15/18 is non-embarassing. I think he will keep the job for the rest of this year so long as his ratio remains in that neighborhood. (Though I don't know what Showalter may do.)

[mikezpen]

He's 15 of 18, coming off arm surgery. Not bad, ya think? I don't think he's the best closer in the world. But he's shown us an awful lot under very trying circumstances, both from a team and personal perspective. They'd better hang on to him this winter because all things considered, he ain't done bad.He could fit into any number of roles next year.