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RHP Kyle Bloor will make his professional debut in 2024 with the Explorers. Bloor, a native of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, spent his last two college seasons with Tennessee Wesleyan in Athens, Tennessee. In 44 games over two seasons, the right-hander would spend all but nine games in the pen for the Bull Dogs. Bloor would post a 13-0 career record with a 5.06 ERA in 94.1 innings with 110 strikeouts and eight saves. In his final season at Tennessee Wesleyan, he would pitch in 30.1 innings with 40 strikeouts with a 1.484 WHIP. His seven saves led the team, and his 21 appearances also were tops on the team. The righty posted a 11.9 strikeout per innings ratio with a 3-0 record. Following his final season with the Bull Dogs, Bloor was selected to the All-Appalachian Athletic Conference team as the relief pitcher while tying for the conference lead in saves with seven.

In 2022 Bloor pitched in 23 games, making eight starts with a 5.06 ERA with 70 strikeouts. He pitched in 64 innings with a 1.500 WHIP with 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings. Bloor worked primarily as the set-up and late-inning situational arm in the pen where his 70 punchouts were second on the relief staff during the season.

Bloor would spend parts of three seasons at Colby Community College in Colby, Kansas from 2019 to 2021. He would pitch in 79 innings over that time span with 76 strikeouts in 34 games. Bloor would make 11 starts while making 23 relief appearances. Bloor would come to Colby Community College as a catcher but would convert to pitcher in his first season. Bloor played in his native Alberta during the summer of 2021 with Lethbridge in the Western Canadian League and played last summer for Falmouth of the Cape Cod League. In five games in Lethbridge, he pitched 7.1 innings with seven strikeouts and no earned runs. In Falmouth he would add another 8.1 innings with four earned runs, nine strikeouts and one save.