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10 hours ago, Scraps said:
10 hours ago, Mitch Hedberg said:
Meyers last 7 games 0-11 with 8 strikeouts. He should be late inning def sub AT BEST. Jake Marisnick 2.0 without the hair or arm.

Bro he was just our cleanup hitter like a week ago!

Didn't Wulaw offer him a 3.5 30 year rate based on that?

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9 hours ago, WBT said:

And Abreu

That I don’t blame him for. He was up and hot when the game was 3-2 and everything in the 7th happened with 2 outs. No time to get anyone else up and ready and since he was already warmed up you just pitch him…

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Posted
8 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Walker’s last 10 games: 

.297 AVG/.982 OPS

3 HR/7 RBI/11 H (7 XBH)
 

Yeah/ and the Astros are 7-3 during that time period. It’s almost like this team is a 95 win team if guys that can hit like Walker, Yordan and Yainer actually hit. 
His defense has looked really good the last couple games. I think he was probably either hurt, rusty or both after missing 4 weeks of spring training with an oblique. 

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Posted
9 hours ago, Gourmand said:

It might be Blubaugh since he's on the taxi squad.

 

I’m pretty excited about blubaugh. I think he’s going to be really good. Not like Hunter brown good but like Arrighetti good. And I think Arrighetti is a legit #2 type when he gets old enough and experienced enough to gain some consistency. 

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ESPN front page, an MLB update about how the NL is "vastly" superior to the AL at this point in the season. Two of the teams they highlight, NYM and SD have lost series to Houston. I'm gruntled. Get Diaz, Walker and Yordan batting over .220 (baby steps) and we really might be cookin with gas. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

That I don’t blame him for. He was up and hot when the game was 3-2 and everything in the 7th happened with 2 outs. No time to get anyone else up and ready and since he was already warmed up you just pitch him…

I didn't like using Hader in the 9th but otoh with a day game to follow and a rookie debut on tap, it makes some sense to hold Van Wey in the pocket to pitch some long relief today since he hasn't pitched since April 20th. I expect we will see him pitch a couple of middle innings this afternoon.

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23 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

ESPN front page, an MLB update about how the NL is "vastly" superior to the AL at this point in the season. Two of the teams they highlight, NYM and SD have lost series to Houston. I'm gruntled. Get Diaz, Walker and Yordan batting over .220 (baby steps) and we really might be cookin with gas. 

 

the mets are on fire, except for that opening series 😁

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Posted
4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Maybe the baby will teach him to throw more strikes.

He's not a strike thrower. It's just not his thing. It's why he's an 8th inning guy (closer in waiting for someone else) instead of a really good #2 starter like Brent Strom thought he ought to be.  Such is life. 

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The Astros team currently is 17 outs above average. I believe that leads all of Major League Baseball. 
Jose Altuve, in left field- is 2 outs above average. I told everyone he’d be fine if he could catch the ball and I expected him to do so, he has. He went from maybe the worst defensive player in baseball in his position to above average/ that’s what the move to LF was about and it’s paying dividends. 
in addition to turning tough plays into outs better than anyone else the Astros have the fewest amount of unearned runs in baseball. This is obviously important.
Still- with all that good defense going on their FIP is better than their era (or at least it was a couple days ago when I looked) meaning the pitchers are doing their job even better than their stellar numbers would indicate. 
This team is Yordan and Yainer heating up and hitting to their proven track record away from being a 100 win team (or at least playing at a 100 win pace) for a long time. 
If we can win today we will end April on a 92 win pace even with an offense that is performing like one of the worst in baseball while being populated with guys that can hit. 
Cam Smith has been very good defensively in RF. Meyers is gold glove caliber in CF. Altuve, as described above, is above average in LF. 
Paredes is above average at 3B and the other 3 infielders have all won gold gloves. This is a good team.

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

The Astros team currently is 17 outs above average. I believe that leads all of Major League Baseball. 
Jose Altuve, in left field- is 2 outs above average. I told everyone he’d be fine if he could catch the ball and I expected him to do so, he has. He went from maybe the worst defensive player in baseball in his position to above average/ that’s what the move to LF was about and it’s paying dividends. 
in addition to turning tough plays into outs better than anyone else the Astros have the fewest amount of unearned runs in baseball. This is obviously important.
Still- with all that good defense going on their FIP is better than their era (or at least it was a couple days ago when I looked) meaning the pitchers are doing their job even better than their stellar numbers would indicate. 
This team is Yordan and Yainer heating up and hitting to their proven track record away from being a 100 win team (or at least playing at a 100 win pace) for a long time. 
If we can win today we will end April on a 92 win pace even with an offense that is performing like one of the worst in baseball while being populated with guys that can hit. 
Cam Smith has been very good defensively in RF. Meyers is gold glove caliber in CF. Altuve, as described above, is above average in LF. 
Paredes is above average at 3B and the other 3 infielders have all won gold gloves. This is a good team.

 

fuck you @Wulaw Horn !!!!!

don't get me excited 

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4 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

The Astros team currently is 17 outs above average. I believe that leads all of Major League Baseball. 
Jose Altuve, in left field- is 2 outs above average. I told everyone he’d be fine if he could catch the ball and I expected him to do so, he has. He went from maybe the worst defensive player in baseball in his position to above average/ that’s what the move to LF was about and it’s paying dividends. 
in addition to turning tough plays into outs better than anyone else the Astros have the fewest amount of unearned runs in baseball. This is obviously important.
Still- with all that good defense going on their FIP is better than their era (or at least it was a couple days ago when I looked) meaning the pitchers are doing their job even better than their stellar numbers would indicate. 
This team is Yordan and Yainer heating up and hitting to their proven track record away from being a 100 win team (or at least playing at a 100 win pace) for a long time. 
If we can win today we will end April on a 92 win pace even with an offense that is performing like one of the worst in baseball while being populated with guys that can hit. 
Cam Smith has been very good defensively in RF. Meyers is gold glove caliber in CF. Altuve, as described above, is above average in LF. 
Paredes is above average at 3B and the other 3 infielders have all won gold gloves. This is a good team.

I want to believe….

i hope all of the above proves out through Memorial Day. If so, I’ll be sold 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Average offense will win lots of games when you have really good pitching and defense.

And the offense should be above average. 

For context- last year the offense finished with an ops+ of 110, which was I think top 5 in baseball offensively.  

WE replaced Bregman's OPS+ of 116 with Paredes who has a career OPS+ of 113. And he's tailor made for Daikan park.

We replaced Abreu and Singleton's roughly 80 combined ops+ for the year with Walker- who has a career OPS+ of 113

We replaced 80 games of Tucker with his OPS+ of 180, and 80 Games of mostly crap in RF (Cabbage- 67, Gamel, 113, Dezenzo, 83, Heyward 111, Leon, -29)- call it 135 or 140 out of the position, with Cam Smith- who I would project to have roughly a 110 OPS plus.   Everyone else is the same player.  Pena and Diaz should be improving in their career points, Yordan & Meyers and Chas should be about the same, Altuve should be in decline.

Netted altogether we should be even at 3B, much better at 1b, decently worse at RF from the aggregate, netting out to about the same level of offense, which was top 5 ish in ops+ and top 10 in runs scored.  If that expected offense shows up whoo boy.  

18 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I want to believe….

i hope all of the above proves out through Memorial Day. If so, I’ll be sold 

That's the hope man. I don't start putting a lot of stock in much of anything about what a team is until then.  Yordan and Yainer are on the clock for me. 

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27 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

The Astros team currently is 17 outs above average. I believe that leads all of Major League Baseball. 
Jose Altuve, in left field- is 2 outs above average. I told everyone he’d be fine if he could catch the ball and I expected him to do so, he has. He went from maybe the worst defensive player in baseball in his position to above average/ that’s what the move to LF was about and it’s paying dividends. 
in addition to turning tough plays into outs better than anyone else the Astros have the fewest amount of unearned runs in baseball. This is obviously important.
Still- with all that good defense going on their FIP is better than their era (or at least it was a couple days ago when I looked) meaning the pitchers are doing their job even better than their stellar numbers would indicate. 
This team is Yordan and Yainer heating up and hitting to their proven track record away from being a 100 win team (or at least playing at a 100 win pace) for a long time. 
If we can win today we will end April on a 92 win pace even with an offense that is performing like one of the worst in baseball while being populated with guys that can hit. 
Cam Smith has been very good defensively in RF. Meyers is gold glove caliber in CF. Altuve, as described above, is above average in LF. 
Paredes is above average at 3B and the other 3 infielders have all won gold gloves. This is a good team.

It just feels like we are more athletics out there, and can get even better with defensive subs at the end of the game.  

Greene looks awful on defense and that would drive me more mad than watching Jake suck in the box. 

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37 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Jose Altuve, in left field- is 2 outs above average. I told everyone he’d be fine if he could catch the ball and I expected him to do so, he has. He went from maybe the worst defensive player in baseball in his position to above average/ that’s what the move to LF was about and it’s paying dividends. 

It's almost like this should have been the obvious result even in the midst of all the usual spring training panic.

 

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19 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

It's almost like this should have been the obvious result even in the midst of all the usual spring training panic.

 

Agreed. I beat on that drum all spring online and on my pod. People will remeber the embarrassing shit or the misplays and ignore the fact that as a guy who is athletic he’s still getting to balls many LF don’t, which is more important in the grand scheme of things. 
I need to see his OPS plus at 120 to not have a ton of dread about the rest of that contract though. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

The Astros team currently is 17 outs above average. I believe that leads all of Major League Baseball. 
Jose Altuve, in left field- is 2 outs above average. I told everyone he’d be fine if he could catch the ball and I expected him to do so, he has. He went from maybe the worst defensive player in baseball in his position to above average/ that’s what the move to LF was about and it’s paying dividends. 
in addition to turning tough plays into outs better than anyone else the Astros have the fewest amount of unearned runs in baseball. This is obviously important.
Still- with all that good defense going on their FIP is better than their era (or at least it was a couple days ago when I looked) meaning the pitchers are doing their job even better than their stellar numbers would indicate. 
This team is Yordan and Yainer heating up and hitting to their proven track record away from being a 100 win team (or at least playing at a 100 win pace) for a long time. 
If we can win today we will end April on a 92 win pace even with an offense that is performing like one of the worst in baseball while being populated with guys that can hit. 
Cam Smith has been very good defensively in RF. Meyers is gold glove caliber in CF. Altuve, as described above, is above average in LF. 
Paredes is above average at 3B and the other 3 infielders have all won gold gloves. This is a good team.

What are you using for outs above average? On baseball savant I see -1 for LF (2 including his games at 2b)

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Lance McCullers Jr. will start for the Astros on Sunday against the White Sox.
 
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I remember a game there I went to where he started and he dominated. May have been his last start in Chicago sadly and that was 4 years ago.
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Posted
1 minute ago, Scraps said:
1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:
Lance McCullers Jr. will start for the Astros on Sunday against the White Sox.
 
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I remember a game there I went to where he started and he dominated. May have been his last start in Chicago sadly and that was 4 years ago.

I remember Correa making his MLB debut in Chicago in 2015….

which also feels like the last time LMJ was on the mound 

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43 minutes ago, elguapo said:

What are you using for outs above average? On baseball savant I see -1 for LF (2 including his games at 2b)

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Shit- I just saw the LF as the position, thought it was for that- didn't realize they just had him listed that way.  Best 2b numbers in half a decade this year is kinda funny.  

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Posted
Why the fuck do we not have a ball boy down RF line anymore? Budget cuts?
Update

We have a RF ball boy now. Guess they only pay him for 6 innings
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Yall are fucking nuts.  First, all those runs were unearned.  Second, that Homerun had a 9% hit rate and was the definition of a crawford box job.  They've hit like 2 balls hard off him, he's thrown strikes more often than not and has swing and misses.  The bottom line on runs on the board sucks but there's nothing about this that makes him look like he's in over his head or doesn't know what he's doing up here.  Relax and give the kid a chance. 

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