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Hank Chinaski

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  1. While I haven’t been optimistic about the 2023 Astros since roughly last December, I’m not sure how much Brown has contributed to the problem. The off-season roster management was a disaster, but Brown wasn’t around for most of that. Dusty’s indefensible lineup decisions and insistence on consistently playing his worst players are big problems. The team simply enters too many games without giving itself the best chance to win. Over an entire season that matters, whether those game are in April or June or September. I can’t understand why it is allowed to continue, and if Brown is cool with it, then yeah, it’s on him too. I did not like the Graveman trade (because I think Lee should have gotten you a better pitcher), though many here disagree and that’s fine. It wasn’t the worst trade ever or anything. The JV trade was fine, I think. The primary problems with this team are Dusty Baker’s managing and Crane’s ineptitude while playing GM over the winter. I don’t blame Brown for failing to correct all of those things. If this coming offseason is another shitshow, if Maldy and/or Dusty is back, if it continues to be OK to play fucking horrible players every day over good players, then either Brown is an utter dipshit or he’s powerless and Crane has gone full Jerry Jones.
  2. Here’s a fun fact: Jose Abreu 2023 wRC+: 75 Jon Singleton career wRC+: 76
  3. Most hated - Eddie Taubensee. Because his name is only meaningful in a very painful way.
  4. I wish that number was 1 instead of 2.
  5. Of course, but the gif was 100% about Altuve.
  6. I’d still try to extend Bregman, assuming he’d sign a reasonable deal. He’s almost certainly never going to have another season like ‘18 or ‘19. You also won’t have to pay him like that. He’s probably mostly like what he’s done this season, which may feel disappointing, but he’s going to finish up at around 3.5 WAR and he’s probably a 3-4 win player for each of the next several seasons, 10-20% better than league average offensively. Who would you rather have at 3B? There probably isn’t a solution in the farm system by 2025, so you’re looking at signing a FA anyway, or acquiring someone via a trade, which generally means losing controllable assets; more often than not I’d rather they just spend money.
  7. It’s cool that the pitchers love throwing to Maldy and all, but throwing to him results in worse performance and more losses. So…I don’t know, maybe prioritize winning over pitchers’ superstitions or incorrect perceptions or whatever? Call me crazy.
  8. Haha, always winning the games that were never played. Woulda/coulda/shoulda
  9. And we’re not running out our best lineup. Weird.
  10. I wanted to give you a laughing emoji but that actually wouldn’t surprise me, and I don’t find that funny.
  11. Hahaha ”The sips’ mediocrity has been slightly more mediocre than our mediocrity since 2010!” Put it in the wall, I guess?
  12. 100% this. If he isn’t better than the other guy in any sort of measurable way when he plays - any at all - then it’s all make-believe. I have no doubt that they like him. Hell I wouldn’t argue that he hasn’t helped them become better players. None of that has anything to do with playing him over Diaz in 2023 when every conceivable metric demonstrates that Diaz is the superior player in ways that can be directly linked to actually winning baseball games. Make him the backup, keep him around. If all his value is unobservable anyway, then let him hang out in the dugout 4 out of every 5 games.
  13. Well, circumstances changed. Garcia and Urquidy are out. LMJ never came back. This attrition was an unknown variable during the winter. So it isn’t better. But that doesn’t mean either decision (to pass on signing JV and trading for JV) was wrong.
  14. I guess it depends on how much $$ the Mets would eat on JV’s contract. If they’ll pay down some of it, I’d expect them to ask for Gilbert and/or Clifford.
  15. Again, not preseason. FG updated ratings has him as a 50 FV. That was the only point that was being made. And yeah, I’d rather have Clifford than Lee.
  16. Yeah, that is almost certainly the best roster we’ll ever have. It goes to show that short postseason series are essentially coin flips because it’s baseball and sometimes Howie Kendricks hits a home run on a pitch located in a spot where he never hits home runs. Which illustrates the importance of playing as few series as possible to maximize your odds of advancing. Which in turn illustrates why you should maximize your odds of winning every game, at least within reason.
  17. Every regular season game matters because there is an enormous difference between having to win 3 playoff series versus 2. The bye matters a lot, and thus the regular season matters. If we are edged out by the Rangers by a game or two and have to play an extra series - well, you can reasonably conclude that Dusty’s insistence on playing Maldy so much more than Diaz (and all the games he sat Chas for no reason) was the difference. And that’s not hindsight, as most on this thread have been screaming this all season long.
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