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Hank Chinaski

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  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Have they ever defined what makes us “arrogant?” I genuinely don’t know.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Astros were 1 for 21 (.048) on balls in play last night.
  13. Right - only makes sense if you’re getting a guy who may be that good later…meaning, if we’re ready to start remaking the roster (at least to a degree). (And honestly, if the front office can’t make Dusty play him every day, maybe you get more value this way. But I’d rather replace Dusty and hold onto the guy who is a known quantity.)
  14. Wait, why would we trade Chas? For what? Offense is a problem. He’s one of our best offensive players. He’s cheap. Who could we realistically get for Chas that matches/exceeds the value of a 3.5-win player on a pre-arb contract?
  15. Agreed, but I also want to note that he is not interchangeable with Chas. He’s a 4th OF. Chas should be an everyday guy. I know you know this. But Chas and Meyers have frequently been sort of lumped together as equal entities since the both came up around the same time. They shouldn’t be. Chas is a good everyday player (who inexplicably doesn’t get to play every day).
  16. I mean…the “buying players” thing is kind of hilarious; isn’t that kind of baked into the entire recruiting process across the board now? And don’t they crow about how they invented the greatest NIL model the world has ever known? Wouldn’t any reasonable person assume that every high-end recruit is getting “paid” in 2023? But, just as the Aggies are undefeated in games that were never played, so too are they the best when it comes to conjuring unsubstantiated, untestable, and fantastic narratives that all conclude that Texas is just the worst (“Texas kills conferences,” “these kids don’t really want to be Longhorns, they’d much rather be Ags if not for the money,” etcetera and so forth).
  17. The magnitude of their collective inferiority complex is incalculable. Also, they seem to know a whole lot more about UT rings than I do (which means they know something about UT rings).
  18. Still milking that story for every drop he can get out of it.
  19. Sure, but 6-9 is probably more likely.
  20. For the love of god, can someone take this decision away from Dusty? What does anyone need to see to understand that Chas is a good starting CF?
  21. @Wulaw Horn and his handsome co-host discussed concern for Javier in this week’s podcast. Those guys are pretty smart.
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