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Hank Chinaski

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  1. What this presupposes is…logic and rational thought play a role in our day-to-day lineup construction…
  2. Unfortunately, as evidenced by the voluminous content in this thread, it was only a matter of time.
  3. I stopped getting worked up a while back. It isn’t remotely surprising anymore that our lineups will be silly. I’m more at the acceptance stage now - accepting that the Astros aren’t really trying to win this year. I’m not sure why they aren’t, but that’s the only logical conclusion one can reach.
  4. Catchers who hit like he does are dime a dozen.
  5. Crane deciding to side with Dusty fucking Baker over 2 Click and Brown is something. Putting his own ego over the good of the team. Cool. That’s leadership.
  6. This is a team with a manager who stubbornly refuses to maximize his team’s chances of winning. Think about that. It’s kind of the antithesis of the job, no? Dusty has probably cost the team 5 wins this year just based on his playing time allocation. That’s a guess, but don’t worry, @Wulaw Horn and I are going to do the math on it in a couple weeks and give you a more precise number. It may be more than 5. It’s almost like those 5 games matter.
  7. This has looked like a 90-ish win team all year. It still does. It’s probably closer to a 95-ish win team if the manager plays his best players. But he doesn’t, and that costs the team wins. Those wins were always likely to be the difference between winning the division and missing the playoffs entirely. And here we are. The pitching regression was always coming; water finds its level.
  8. Well we don’t play our best players, so…
  9. Texas A&M and Texas haven’t played each other in over a decade a generation. lol
  10. When we have to play in the first round or miss the playoffs entirely, remember how frequently the manager refused to play his best players.
  11. Andre Ware’s incessant, raging hard-on for Texas seems unhealthy.
  12. This. Buck stops with Crane. Dusty’s bullshit is getting out of hand. He publicly states that he’d rather have the Mariners’ CF than his own guy (who happens to be outperforming the Mariners’ CF). He’s talking about his “big boys” or whatever. He sounds deranged. It’s all bullshit drama that he’s creating by stubbornly refusing to play his best players and then getting defensive when he’s rightly called out for it. And Crane could end it by telling him to cut the shit, play the right players, and shut the fuck up about Chas.
  13. I live in ABQ. They’re atrocious. Last year they played 11 FBS teams. They went 1-10 and scored 10.5 points per game. Only one of those teams was P5 (LSU). They lost 38-0. They were also shut out by Colorado St and scored 3 against Air Force. Oh, and their OC was…Derek Warehime. (Nice hire, Tom.)
  14. I’d maybe flip Bregman and Tucker but that’s splitting hairs. This is the way.
  15. Why is Chas being too fat an issue if he is 50% better than league average and still good defensively? This is dumb.
  16. That’s fine, but I’m of the opinion that there’s never a bad time to shine a light on this insanity. Hell, @Wulaw Horn and his podcast co-host have been banging this drum since April. As an aside, that’s a great podcast and that “Andrew” guy seems smart as hell.
  17. Bullshit. This message needs to be relentlessly shouted. The asinine allocation of playing time is the reason the Astros are up by a game instead of five.
  18. Chas: .289/.371/.527; 147 wRC+ Julio: .282/.340/.490; 130 wRC+ Both grade as plus defenders. Dusty, it’s easy if you got a Chas McCormick, you just put him out in center field.
  19. He’s been better offensively than Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Bryce Harper, and Julio Rodriguez in 2023. It is insane to play him as infrequently as the Astros do. Absolutely nuts. It is a legit fireable offense by the manager.
  20. allocating PT for Chas and Diaz the way Dusty does would be like: 1. the Rangers making Garcia and Heim part time players 2. the Mariners making Julio and Raleigh part time players. The difference is that Chas has been better offensively than Julio or Garcia and Diaz has been better offensively than Heim or Raleigh. And they are both good defensively. Somehow the Rangers and Mariners understand that playing your good players is conducive to winning. The Astros should have at least a 5 game lead right now.
  21. Chas has been as good as Tucker offensively this year. Diaz hits as well as the best offensive catchers in MLB - Will Smith, Sean Murphy, etc. We sit them routinely in the middle of a pennant chase. Our manager treats them like spare parts. It’s insane.
  22. I think it’s the other way around - career stats are the sundae (foundation), the other things are the nuts. Seems like voters need to see a baseline of career stats. I’m not saying that’s how it should be necessarily, but that’s my perception of how candidates are evaluated. I think he’s close but not quite there yet.
  23. He almost certainly will not approach Bagwell in career WAR. If that’s not how you would define “greatest,” that’s fine, but there will likely end up being about a 10-15 WAR gap between he and Bagwell. Disagree that he’d get into the HOF if he retired after this season. Not arguing that he shouldn’t, mind you - just that he wouldn’t. The Hall favors big counting numbers, and the more contemporary voters who are less concerned about them place extra emphasis on high WAR/value peak numbers. There just aren’t that many short career guys in the Hall. Puckett is a good example, but I seriously doubt he’d get in had his career ended recently (I don’t think modern voters would vote him in). The exciting part is that last season was maybe his best (along with 2017) and he’s actually been better this year, albeit in limited time. The last two years, his walk have increased, moving his OBP up; it looks like it may be the next phase of his continued evolution as a hitter. If he has a couple more healthy seasons in which he performs at the level of 2022-23, he will be just about there. There is of course the asinine sign stealing bullshit, but I think as more time passes and more people objectively acknowledge that the entire thing was less a “scandal” than it was a sensationalized story about what amounts to a baseball tradition, as more evidence mounts that it made absolutely zero detectable difference in his performance, as evidence that he didn’t even really participate anyway is reinforced, I doubt it keeps him out of the Hall.
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