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Hank Chinaski

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  1. From today's chat with Fangraphs' prospect guru...if he's on the short list of guys considered to have the "highest ceiling" in the draft, you'd figure he'd be selected pretty high...

    12:27

    Erik: Highest ceiling and floor in this years draft?

     
    12:29

    Kiley McDaniel: Floor is Madrigal. Ceiling is tough to say probably one of Alec Bohm, Kyler Murray, Jordyn Adams. Stewart/Liberatore on pitcher side

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  2. 6 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    Kemp is a real possibility. He’s hitting .335, is good defensively, and can pinch run.

    Maybe so, but I hope it is Davis or White to take regular DH duties from Gattis. Stick with Marwin/Fisher in LF for now (though both need to get it going). 

    Though I suppose as long as Gattis is on the roster, he'll play. 

  3. 2 minutes ago, Ldogg53 said:

    Dates/Games for when the Astros reached their 13th game of 0/1 runs.  And also how many of those 13 games were shutouts.

    2018 - game 43 - May 14th - # of shutouts 4

    And let's go back to those 100 loss seasons too. Just for shits and giggles.

    2014 - game 48 - May 22nd - # of shutouts 5

    2013 - game 66 - June 11th - # of shutouts 7

    2012 - game 59 - June 9th - # of shutouts 3

    2011 - game 77 - June 24th - # of shutouts 3

     

    holy living fuck.

  4. 11 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

    Great example of run average being over exaggerated. 

    16,4,4,0 is our runs scored over 4 games and that gives a average of 6 runs a game. Yet it’s the one game explosion that helps the average stay high. If our pitching ever starts to slump we are fucked. 

    AVG runs/game is 4.75. Median runs/game in 4.0. 

    Astros have been shut out in 10% of their games so far. 

    Astros have scored 0 or 1 run in 30% of their games. 

    I know this is all supposed to even out over the whole year, and sequencing has just been out of whack, but...it's hard to watch them and not think that something's not right. 

  5. 4 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

    Dumbass shit I just saw on texfags:

    I feel like we're basically even with the sips at this point, although i would like to think that within a few years, we will begin to surpass them in some areas.

    The delusion is uncanny.

    Well yeah...per aggy, aggy is always on the brink of unprecedented ascension, and tu is always at the precipice of disaster. It was like this on 1/5/06. It is like this on 5/12/18. It will always be their "forecast." 

  6. 27 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

    So my eyes aren’t playing tricks on me after all. 

    Regardless of whether or not 2017 was a major anomaly for most of our hitters, we have to be better than what we’ve shown so far in 2018. If we’d had this starting pitching a year ago, we might have won 130 games...but at the rate we’re now going, 100 looks like a lofty goal. 

    Well, on the bright side, water generally finds its level. For example...Jed Lowrie, Nick Markakis, Asdrubal Cabrera, Francisco Cervelli, Kevin Pillar, and Jorge Soler probably aren't suddenly better hitters than any player on the Astros roster. They will come back to earth and Altuve/Correa/Springer are likely to be better. 

    But no, it's not your eyes; Wilson Ramos has been a better hitter than Jose Altuve so far. (So has Colin Moran.)

  7. Here are the MLB rankings of Astros hitters in wRC+, with 2017 rank in ():

    Springer - 41st (18th)

    Correa - 47th (6th if he had enough PAs)

    Altuve - 57th (4th)

    Bregman - 75th (43rd)

    Reddick - 89th (36th)

    Marwin - 128th (12th)

    Essentially, every hitter in the lineup except McCann is hitting considerably worse than last year. 

     

  8. 23 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

    Not to get too nerdy, but what is our BABIP?  It seems like we have had a lot of hard hit balls right at outfielders, especially during the early part of last homestand.  Maybe I'm way off, but I feel like we've been a little unlucky.

    BABIP is .313 - 4th in MLB

  9. He was discussed as a possible 1st round pick out of HS. He should have never gone to college for football. If he gets another crack at being a high draft pick this year, he should absolutely drop football. 

    And I agree with CTJ here - his physical tools are there. He has a legit shot at playing major league baseball, I'd surmise much better odds than playing in the NFL. 

  10. 39 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    Yeah, the article only has two purposes - First to throw out baseless speculation about CDC possibly coming for TCU's coaches and second to take potshots at UT's recent struggles in football and basketball.  Obviously written by a small-peen TCU homer.  Pure garbage.

    "Rival" fanbases love to create myths about how their coaches turned down UT whenever we have a coaching vacancy. The article attempts to lay the seeds for this narrative. 

  11. 13 minutes ago, HoustonFrog said:

    Gattis needs to be gone.

    Marwin and Reddick have regressed substantially.
     

    The regression should have been expected. Marwin performed way over his career norms last year. He'd been pretty consistently average-ish over his previous 1500 big league PAs, then hit like an all-star in '17.

    Reddick also had his career best offensive season, though not by a ton as Marwin's was. 

    Gattis wasn't even good last year. If he is giving you innings as a passable defensive catcher, he's not a bad player; but if he's strictly a DH...he has very little value. 

    They have smart people in the FO - they certainly know all of these things. 

  12. Yeah, I don't really see any major moves coming. 

    DH is a black hole and Gattis should be DFA'd. That may or may not happen, but if it did, my guess is that he's replaced by Tyler White or someone like that. LF is a problem, but Tucker is almost ready and they probably feel OK about giving Fisher a little more rope. The pen is a mess, and maybe they'll add someone, but I wouldn't count on it for a while. 

    We are who we are for now. 

  13. I went to the UT-TCU game in Austin in 2007. We fucked around and TCU led 10-0 at half. There was this TCU guy right in front of me and he kept slow-clapping and saying "Absolutely" and looking all around and nodding his head every time TCU did something positive. He seemed like an extraordinary douchebag. (Luckily the Horns woke up and Jamaal Charles ran them off the field in the second half and we won by 3 TDs, I think.)

    That's all I got. I am generally pretty neutral on TCU. 

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  14. 2 hours ago, slorch said:

    UT will do anything for a dollar.

    Adzillatron

    LHN

    Feeling ( overly) proud of achieving so much with the financial backing of the state of Texas while acting as if other state schools should find their own way. To be clear, I recognize things are set up the way they are and they ain't changing.  The attitude of achievement with the added resources, however, is almost criminally hilarious.

    Whore aggy.

    Ah ok. Yes, the AD will do anything for a dollar. Adzillatron is a great example (though LHN is probably not a great example, as it is tough to find any fault with taking ESPN's money for them to run a channel devoted to school advertising and marketing, but point taken).  

    But the second point doesn't really jibe with "whore" - that's more like trust fund aggy. 

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