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Just now, kevwun said:

The angle from first base made it look like he might have tagged him first.

Tassels maybe.

The smart move maybe is just to walk Jose intentionally every time. You'll get him out on one base or another. 

Yeah, regardless of the call, that was some god damned stupid base running.

Hopefully that got it out of his system intil next spring training.

2 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Hopefully that got it out of his system intil next spring training.

Nope.  

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"Well that shut their announcers up.  Morons!"- wife as last out was made.  Lolz.

 

Have I ever told y'all how much I like beating the Rangers?

It's a lot.

It's like right below boobies.

I loved the Altuve baserunning gambit. I celebrate the entire catalogue 

Maybe in some situations, but not with Bregman due up and 1 out.

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The kid doesn’t seemed to be overwhelmed by any of it. As they say on the Twitter these days, he does seem to have that dog in him. 

I do like the point in the schedule that they are bringing him up.

1st 3 starts if they keep him as a starter figure to be

Rangers 

Tigers

A’s

so AAAA

 

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I haven’t seen a debut so easily described as “electric” since I don’t know when. The ones  that come to mind are (1) Kerry Wood (sorry) and (2) Lincecum. I’m sure there are better examples but those are the two debuts I remember watching that were as electric. 

87-48. On pace for 104-58. Can have a slight losing record from here on out and still win 100.

M's finally dropped a game, so we lowered the magic number by 2 down to 16. 

4 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

I haven’t seen a debut so easily described as “electric” since I don’t know when. The ones  that come to mind are (1) Kerry Wood (sorry) and (2) Lincecum. I’m sure there are better examples but those are the two debuts I remember watching that were as electric.

I don’t remember if it was “electric” but Jarred Cosart gave up  a 2 hits in 8 shutout innings in his MLB Astros debut in 2013. He had a no hitter going into the 7th 

25 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

I haven’t seen a debut so easily described as “electric” since I don’t know when. The ones  that come to mind are (1) Kerry Wood (sorry) and (2) Lincecum. I’m sure there are better examples but those are the two debuts I remember watching that were as electric. 

I didn't see J. R. Richards' 15-K debut in San Francisco, but I still remember listening to it on radio. Complete game, 155 pitches. He was every bit as devastating as advertised. 
 

https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-saga-of-j-r-richards-debut-blowing-away-15-sticks-at-candlestick/

Yep...seen it 50 times lol

Rewatching Altuve, if he guns it from the go, he’s easily safe 

Yeah, I remember Pena pulling it off.  I think I saw him do it on another team a few years earlier.

2 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

I haven’t seen a debut so easily described as “electric” since I don’t know when. The ones  that come to mind are (1) Kerry Wood (sorry) and (2) Lincecum. I’m sure there are better examples but those are the two debuts I remember watching that were as electric. 

Strasburg's was pretty good.  14 Ks but he also gave up 2 runs.

What I love about Brown's debut and demonstrated potential is that it was basically an Alderaan moment for the rest of the league, not in a deadly way, but most definitely in a shock and awe manner.

"Furk, now Houston has another one..."

the ex-space cowboy came up huge tonight ...
 

Small sample size yada yada, but if this dude produces for the rest of the season while we were trotting one-armed Jake out there…
1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:


Small sample size yada yada, but if this dude produces for the rest of the season while we were trotting one-armed Jake out there…

Well it’s not like he had 1100 major league PAs as a sample size outside of 11 with SF

1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:


Small sample size yada yada, but if this dude produces for the rest of the season while we were trotting one-armed Jake out there…

There’s a much larger sample says that indicates he sucks. As bad as Meyers was this season, his triple slash line and wRC+ are basically identical to Brinson’s career average across over 1,000 plate appearances.

Altuve has been ballin out

Since Aug 1st he has 40 hits

avg went from .269 to .291   OPS .864 to .898(actually got over .900 before last nights game) 

Well it’s not like he had 1100 major league PAs as a sample size outside of 11 with SF

Absolutely valid. I’m not saying our FO misplayed this or anything, just that it would be annoying if he chose NOW to not be terrible as a pro.

I completely missed that trade. What did the Astros get in return?

1 minute ago, rvm96 said:

I completely missed that trade. What did the Astros get in return?

cash considerations

20 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Altuve has been ballin out

Since Aug 1st he has 40 hits

avg went from .269 to .291   OPS .864 to .898(actually got over .900 before last nights game) 

He really is the engine to this whole thing. 

12 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I loved the Altuve baserunning gambit. I celebrate the entire catalogue 

He might be the dumbest baserunner I have ever seen.  The bizarro Bagwell.

10 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

He might be the dumbest baserunner I have ever seen.  The bizarro Bagwell.

How can you appreciate the good in life without realizing what it's counterpoint is?  He scored the winning run against the Yankees in 2019 that decided the series on the Correa double on a play he was out by 25 feet on and Sanchez forgot to catch the ball.  He scored once upon a time a sac fly on a pop up to the 2B standing in the IF, when the 2B was actually watching the play (no circus catch over the should or with a back to homeplate). He's stolen a bunch of bases in his career. He's uber aggressive. I think, for his career, he's probably a plus baserunner, but I must confess I don't have the stats. Does he do dumb stuff sometimes that has no purpose?  Yes.  A lot.  But the play he tried to make last night was pretty cool and almost/should have worked.  I'm here for all of it. 

Fangraphs has his 5.9 Runs above average for his career.  He is, this year, -2.4.  His numbers by year:

 

0.1, 3.7, -3.1, 4.7, -4, 0.4, 4, 4.7, -5, 0.4, 2.5, -2.4

No rhyme or reason.  No clear patter of him diminishing what was once a great skill set.  He's just him.  Risking, daring, sometimes calculated and then just sometimes stupid.  Makes it fun. More fun than station to station boringness. 

12 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

 

Here’s another view. Brown needs to never leave JV’s side for the rest of the season

 

 

An embarrassment of riches at SP. 

It would really hurt to lose JV.  I literally love him.  But if Brown is the real deal, then doesn't he become expendable at the high price?

What do you do with six quality starters?  One guy works from the pen? Six man rotation? Trade one of them? Good problem to have.

14 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I loved the Altuve baserunning gambit. I celebrate the entire catalogue 

Felt like at that point in the game there was some value in trying to create a run, and he almost did. 

17 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

An embarrassment of riches at SP. 

It would really hurt to lose JV.  I literally love him.  But if Brown is the real deal, then doesn't he become expendable at the high price?

What do you do with six quality starters?  One guy works from the pen? Six man rotation? Trade one of them? Good problem to have.

We have more quality starting pitchers than we need. If it was just about the regular season the right choice is to probably let JV (and Montero and Maton) walk and use that $50M to get a top notch CF and a really good LF with that money instead. You'd basically then have all star OF, plus Bregman, Pena, Altuve, and Y Diaz, plus catcher at the same type of money with a rotation of Framber, LMJ, Javier, Brown, Urquidy & Garcia, and a bullpen of Presley, Abreu, Stanek, Neris, Martinez, Taylor, & 1 of Whitley, Bielak or Paredes

5 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

You don’t fuck around and you make JV retire an Astro unless his arm falls off. 

But, it's not a regular season game and you want a legit stud ace to take the ball in the 1st game of the playoffs.  So, this is your horse and this is the way. 

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