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Hank Chinaski

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  1. I mean, I don’t understand almost anything about them, and I consider that a really good thing.
  2. I’ve often thought, while reading these posts obsessing over team recruiting rankings (for which there is no consensus and plenty of subjectivity), “do they realize that recruiting isn’t the actual sport? Like, they understand that actual football games are played, right?” But you’re probably right, they must mistake recruiting wins for affirmation of their bizarre culture, which they crave over all else.
  3. Dear lord they need new material. Don’t the get bored writing the same tired platitudes over and over, year after year (overrated team and recruits, whiny Texas fans, blah blah blah)? And before anyone says “well it’s because Texas football has been in a rut,” I’ll mention that they were writing the same things in the 00s. It doesn’t matter.
  4. Counterpoint - by keeping Chas…we ensure that we have an above-average everyday player for the rest of 2023 (our offense needs all hands on deck now). Then we have a great all-around OF with Chas, Gilbert, Tucker when Gilbert is ready next year; Yordan DHs like he should; offense is stronger. Obviously we should move Chas in the right deal; I’m struggling to find starting pitching that is likely to be available (from teams out of contention) that get you similar value to Chas. Obviously the other team could add prospects or whatever, but in the context of 2023 that makes less sense to do for the Astros.
  5. Also - the guy is trying to make a point about schedule strength using “#1 team” as a proxy, and includes 2 seasons (2019, 2022) in which both a&m and Texas played a common opponent who was #1 in one of the games but not the other. So, his point seems rely on the idea that the exact same team is a better opponent if they are ranked #1 at the time of the game than if they aren’t (e.g., LSU in 2019 was undefeated national champs but not yet ranked first when they played Texas). This is less a “fun fact” than it is a meaningless observation.
  6. Good, his OBP will tick up and our odds of scoring increases. That means the net effect of his play is positive (I think). And the team is still better when he plays. Nothing else should matter because he’s not a bad guy, just a weirdo, and the team is not adversely affected by his inclusion in the lineup in any way (quite the opposite).
  7. Imagine thinking that you were screwed out of a playoff spot in a regular season in which you lost a game 52-24 and only beat one team with a winning record.
  8. They should have interest; he’s an extremely valuable player when you factor in his production, team control and cost. We’re just too dumb to play him every day.
  9. No. Not when your 2 best hitters are out and there is half a week to play before having several days off. It’s an asinine decision. No other team in baseball would do that unless they had a 10-game division lead. There is no logical rationale for this. There is no defense for this. It is intentionally reducing your team’s chances of winning for no good reason. Period.
  10. Goddamnit. Fuck Dusty. Chas sitting and Madris in the lineup. He’s such a goddamn clown. 129 wRC+ this season. It doesn’t matter if we acquire a bat if Dusty gets to run the club like a goddamn pony league team.
  11. It’s like there’s some sort of cosmic force that won’t allow Altuve and Yordan to be healthy at the same time this year. And it fucking sucks.
  12. Sure, a guy who can play LF/DH would make some sense. But you’d have to get someone who is clearly better than Julks or Meyers for little prospect capital.
  13. I don’t actually think this is a need, assuming Yordan returns after the ASB. If Dusty plays the best players, you have: 2B Altuve 3B Bregman RF Tucker LF/DH Yordan 1B Abreu CF Chas C/DH Diaz SS Pena C/LF Maldy/Meyers/Julks If Dusty commits to making Chas the everyday CF and Abreu continues what he’s been doing over the last month (121 wRC+ in June), and Diaz is in the lineup as the catcher or DH most days…then this is actually a good lineup. 1-7 should all be above average hitters (with 1-4 being well above-average), and Pena is right at league average. If they want to go get a LF/DH type like Brantley would have been, ok…but it’s not really necessary if he’d just play Chas and Diaz. More pressing may be another starter, given whatever is going on with Javier.
  14. Over the last calendar year (since 7/1/22), Chas has a better wRC+ (129) than the following CFs: Bryan Reynolds Cedric Mullins Adolis Garcia George Springer Michael Harris These are guys who play every day, make all-star teams, win ROY awards, play on team USA in the WBC, etc. And Chas often sits in favor of Corey Julks, Jake Meyers and Bligh Madris. Is anyone on here willing to defend this?
  15. My god…he’ll never watch the games because it is “cancer” to him to watch a bunch of kids he doesn’t know that attend his alma mater play football against a bunch of kids he doesn’t know that attend another school? Maybe take it easy, guy? This is psychotic shit. We’ve really (inadvertently) skull-fucked a bunch of these guys.
  16. Continuing to sit Chas and play Maldy over Diaz almost every day (when Yordan was in)…those are Dusty’s decisions. He actively chooses to play lesser players over Chas very often. He actively chose to play a lesser player at catcher very often and only began regularly using Diaz once there was a need at DH.
  17. I mean sure, but you don’t do that if you’re serious about winning in 2023. You’d be getting rid of your best CF and the 5th-best hitter on the team, which isn’t a great offensive team to begin with. If we want to start retooling for the future, sure. But in 2023, scoring runs has been difficult; trading Chas almost certainly makes it even harder.
  18. Chas career wRC+: 112 Verdugo career wRC*: 110 I’d be fine acquiring Verdugo, but he’s not better than Chas. He’s the same hitter but probably isn’t a CF and has less team control.
  19. Yeah, trading an above-average CF on a pre-arb deal, who is easily the second-best outfielder in the organization (if we’re considering Yordan a DH, which he should be) makes total sense. The fact that people think Julks and Meyers are just as good as Chas continues to baffle me.
  20. Have they ever defined what makes us “arrogant?” I genuinely don’t know.
  21. Yup. And this has been fairly obvious since April. I do think their pitching is going to regress a bit, but their lineup is legit.
  22. I’ve been saying it all season, but everything about this club has been askew since the WS ended. I’m with you - why are we all ok with letting Dusty sit he good players and play the bad players? It really is that simple.
  23. Just so we’re all clear here…Dusty is sitting Chas McCormick while starting Corey Julks and Bligh Madris. He plays Julks as frequently (if not more) as he plays Chas. Julks has a career 90 wRC+. Madris has a 92 wRC+ this year…in triple-motherfucking-A. He starts at DH. Read that all again. Meanwhile, Chas has a 120 wRC+ this year and 112 for his career. He sits today (and many days), for a team without its best hitter, which has been struggling to score runs. Dusty has to fucking go. We aren’t even trying to win. I’ve never seen this much effort devoted to ensuring that a bunch of quad-A players get significant playing time for what is supposed to be a good team.
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