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    I’m just glad I survived another season of being the official thread starter. Thank you all for your continued support in this emotional time.   In more ways than one with tonight’s result:

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7 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

This team sucks and doesn't fuck

or this team fucking sucks

3 hours ago, cabowabo said:

From Abreu whiffing on a foul pop up costing a run, to Yainer going full retard with the catchers interference, to Pressly pulling down his pants and diarrheaing on the pitching mound, I do respect that we do it as a team.
 

And Altuve trying to score from third on a ball hit just beyond first base.

57 minutes ago, Limp Brisket said:

And Altuve trying to score from third on a ball hit just beyond first base.

TOOTBLAN is his middle name

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

You’re in over your head Joey. 

We've given up more runs than every team except the Marlins and Rockies.  So much for that vaunted pitching staff.  We're right at middle of the road in runs scored.

Get your shit together fuckers.

6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Yep you’ll continue to hear about how great they were in years past so they assume it will kick in again. I mean I get it but how many games will you continue? 

Calling low strikes is one thing, but then missing actual strikes higher than the shit you are calling strikes is playing Abreu level stupid

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I think it was Will Carroll who used to write about injuries for Baseball Prospectus and described “staying healthy” as the sixth tool for ballplayers.  
 

His position was that it was the next frontier in analytics-a lot of the low hanging fruit in terms of tactics and strategy has been discovered and disseminated.  Minimizing injury (and selecting players who avoid) still has lots of proprietary benefit.  

And the schedule this week is shitty.

I wanted to see what this team looks like when healthy when someone upstream had posted that we were like 3rd from last in runs allowed.  I've put together a composite line just using guys we would expect to see pitch for us- JV, Framber, Javier, Brown, France, Blanco, Hader, Montero, Abreu, Pressly, Martinez and Bielak.  That's it- that's not counting guys like LMJ and Garcia or Urquidy who you knew were gone for long periods of time before the season started.  So- it's not like this is a healthy staff or anything, but it's what you thought you were getting- I guess I will throw Taylor Scott in there as well since he'd have broken camp with the main guys.

173 IP, 166 H's 79BB, 152K's, 88 Runs, 82 ER's

ERA- 4.265, Whip- 1.41, 1.92 K/BB

 

Hader, Pressly and Abreu are a combined 1-4 with a -1.1 WAR and directly responsible for 2 or 3 more losses that don't show up in that 1-4.

 

This team is a little bit of health- guys with real good track records in the bullpen getting better and the will to solve the Jose Abreu situation away from being just fine.  All that seems pretty fixable but maybe it won't be.   

  

Put a nail in it.  Starting to think the real missing link might be Strom.  Our pitchers fucking suck all of a sudden.

Just now, Snake Diggity said:

Put a nail in it.  Starting to think the real missing link might be Strom.  Our pitchers fucking suck all of a sudden.

 

 

Yeah I've wondered that myself but Az pitching isnt really tearing it up and doesn't explain the lack of hitting

Why is Espada pulling the infield in with no outs in the first?

It didn’t matter but it smells of desperation.

ideal everyday lineup:

Alvarez, Chas, Tuck

Bregs, Pena, Altuve, Dubon (1B)

Diaz DH, Carot C

the 9 best hitters, no reason to sit any of them.  

 

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1 minute ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

ideal everyday lineup:

Alvarez, Chas, Tuck

Bregs, Pena, Altuve, Dubon (1B)

Diaz DH, Carot C

the 9 best hitters, no reason to sit any of them.  

 

I can think of 19.5 million reasons.

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

From the pre game interview …

 

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Our hitting coach? Is it the same as last year or did we hire someone new? Because he sucks dick.

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

omg.

Brown just said “back of the baseball card” again…in regards to not being worried about Pressly/Hader struggles

How many times did he say “at the end of the day?”

Another game of making a mid pitcher look like maddux.   This team is pathetic.  Bregman should of signed the contract lol.  The prima donna sucks ass.   

I'll be thrilled if we get to .500 by the ASB. 

Man, they didn't even want to be there today.

15 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

Man, they didn't even want to be there today.

I didn’t watch, had a bad feeling after Javi was scratched.  
 

On to Chicago, likely to lose all 3 with starters tbd.  

Dana Brown is a turd. 
Joe Espada is not a big league manager maybe someday, but that day ain’t today. 
If they were hired to bring down a dynasty then the freaking nailed it.

I'm holding out hope that we can win the season series with Arlington. Beyond there, no real aspirations for a team this bad. 

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