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Post by blcoach8 on May 8, 2021 13:36:15 GMT -6
I saw him pitch on TV in LL WS awhile back...Looked good in spite of his dad. LOL LOLL |
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Post by blcoach8 on May 8, 2021 14:15:56 GMT -6
What does anyone know about two pitchers we signed to minor league deals this week? One of them is Lawson and I don't remember the other one.
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Post by abregmanfan on May 8, 2021 14:46:46 GMT -6
What does anyone know about two pitchers we signed to minor league deals this week? One of them is Lawson and I don't remember the other one. |
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Post by blcoach8 on May 8, 2021 16:22:14 GMT -6
They signed another one a couple of days before getting Lawson. Doing a little research I see the other one was Nolan Riggs. Looks like they sent him to Corpus. www.milb.com/player/nolan-riggs-642012 Paredes is being sent to Corpus on a rehab assignment. I hope that means we have him back soon. Anyone have an update on Baez or Taylor? |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 8, 2021 17:50:40 GMT -6
Báez rakes the infield dirt between innings.
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Post by blcoach8 on May 8, 2021 18:36:02 GMT -6
Báez rakes the infield dirt between innings. Does Pruitt help him? |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 8, 2021 18:38:23 GMT -6
Báez rakes the infield dirt between innings. Does Pruitt help him? Pruitt is waiting to crack the starting rake squad. |
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Post by abregmanfan on May 8, 2021 20:00:09 GMT -6
Báez rakes the infield dirt between innings. Post of the year! |
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Post by olpapa on May 9, 2021 11:22:02 GMT -6
Báez rakes the infield dirt between innings. Post of the year! Your boy Ronnie Dawson is off to a good start at Sugarland. If he maintains his productivity for another month or so and Straw continues to struggle, I wonder if Dawson will get a shot with the Astros and Straw get sent down. |
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Post by olpapa on May 9, 2021 11:28:23 GMT -6
Sugarland is 3-0 to start the season and they have scored 34 runs in those three games. I don’t know if the Skeeters are that good or the Albuquerque pitchers are that bad.
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Post by blcoach8 on May 9, 2021 11:42:51 GMT -6
Your boy Ronnie Dawson is off to a good start at Sugarland. If he maintains his productivity for another month or so and Straw continues to struggle, I wonder if Dawson will get a shot with the Astros and Straw get sent down. I guess I missed something because I didn't see anything in Dawson to get excited about. I'd rather see Leon. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 9, 2021 11:59:14 GMT -6
Báez rakes the infield dirt between innings. Post of the year! Thanks, I aim to please. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 9, 2021 12:01:38 GMT -6
Your boy Ronnie Dawson is off to a good start at Sugarland. If he maintains his productivity for another month or so and Straw continues to struggle, I wonder if Dawson will get a shot with the Astros and Straw get sent down. Straw has done nothing to earn his job. He can’t read routes or pitchers, doesn’t steal enough, or bunt. Keep the carousel of tryouts going. |
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Post by olpapa on May 9, 2021 12:01:55 GMT -6
Your boy Ronnie Dawson is off to a good start at Sugarland. If he maintains his productivity for another month or so and Straw continues to struggle, I wonder if Dawson will get a shot with the Astros and Straw get sent down. I guess I missed something because I didn't see anything in Dawson to get excited about. I'd rather see Leon. No doubt Dawson has been a disappointment since the Astros took him in the second round of the 2016 draft. I don’t think you really want to see Leon yet. The guy is 1-19 with 11 strikeouts at AA so far. On the bright side he did manage to go 0-3 without striking out in last night’s game. |
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Post by olpapa on May 9, 2021 20:25:41 GMT -6
Dawson had another good game today for Sugarland. He went 1-2 with a double and 3 walks. He also had an outfield assist. Threw a runner out at home. He’s batting .375. His OBP is .583.
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Post by abregmanfan on May 9, 2021 20:29:06 GMT -6
Dawson had another good game today for Sugarland. He went 1-2 with a double and 3 walks. He also had an outfield assist. Threw a runner out at home. He’s batting .375. His OBP is .583. Papa, is everything ok in your part of town? Around 5:00 I got called out to work due to flooding. Not even a mile from the house I got to watch a high water rescue. Go home from the office about 30 minutes ago to find my house is flooded. The creek beside me is overflowing. Outside of spending time with Mom and the Stros game, today has been a crappy day. |
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Post by abregmanfan on May 9, 2021 20:31:32 GMT -6
Dawson had another good game today for Sugarland. He went 1-2 with a double and 3 walks. He also had an outfield assist. Threw a runner out at home. He’s batting .375. His OBP is .583. Dawson is a good average baseball player with a little pop and good speed. He is not as fast as Straw, but a better overall player. He probably will never have a batting avg above .260 but he plays good defense, hits decent and runs well for a decent size guy. |
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Post by olpapa on May 9, 2021 21:41:13 GMT -6
Dawson had another good game today for Sugarland. He went 1-2 with a double and 3 walks. He also had an outfield assist. Threw a runner out at home. He’s batting .375. His OBP is .583. Papa, is everything ok in your part of town? Around 5:00 I got called out to work due to flooding. Not even a mile from the house I got to watch a high water rescue. Go home from the office about 30 minutes ago to find my house is flooded. The creek beside me is overflowing. Outside of spending time with Mom and the Stros game, today has been a crappy day. Everything is fine out here at our place. Our house is up high on a hill. I don’t know if the water got over my driveway or not. I have 5 feet diameter culvert under my driveway where it crosses a draw between my house and the main road coming to our place. Water has been over the driveway there once since we built the driveway in 2014. Water didn’t damage the driveway then. Hope it doesn’t this time. My biggest concern right now is whether my pond will rise enough that it flows over the dam. I have the pond stocked with bass and channel cat. If the pond overflows the dam I am going to lose some good fish. |
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Post by blcoach8 on May 9, 2021 21:54:26 GMT -6
Dawson had another good game today for Sugarland. He went 1-2 with a double and 3 walks. He also had an outfield assist. Threw a runner out at home. He’s batting .375. His OBP is .583. Dawson is a good average baseball player with a little pop and good speed. He is not as fast as Straw, but a better overall player. He probably will never have a batting avg above .260 but he plays good defense, hits decent and runs well for a decent size guy. I'd give him a shot......send McCormick or Straw down and bring him up and put him in CF. |
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Post by olpapa on May 12, 2021 6:19:45 GMT -6
Dawson had another good game today for Sugarland. He went 1-2 with a double and 3 walks. He also had an outfield assist. Threw a runner out at home. He’s batting .375. His OBP is .583. Dawson is a good average baseball player with a little pop and good speed. He is not as fast as Straw, but a better overall player. He probably will never have a batting avg above .260 but he plays good defense, hits decent and runs well for a decent size guy. Dawson continued his good start to the season last night. He batted 5 times, walked twice and singled twice. I know it is a small sample size, but so far in 6 games his OBP is .588 and BA is .391. Looking at his career batting stats, one thing jumped out at me. Prior to this season he has struck out 2 - 3 times for each walk every season. So far this season he has walked 10 times and struck out just 3 times in 34 plate appearances. Obviously he is taking a different approach at the plate so far this season. |
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Post by olpapa on May 12, 2021 6:38:48 GMT -6
Maybe the Astros should promote the Sugarland hitting coach to the big club. After 6 games the skeeters have 9 players who have a batting average of .300 or higher and an OPS of .800 or higher.
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Post by m240 on May 12, 2021 7:58:28 GMT -6
Whatever happened to Santos
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Post by unionstation82 on May 12, 2021 8:00:50 GMT -6
Dawson is a good average baseball player with a little pop and good speed. He is not as fast as Straw, but a better overall player. He probably will never have a batting avg above .260 but he plays good defense, hits decent and runs well for a decent size guy. Dawson continued his good start to the season last night. He batted 5 times, walked twice and singled twice. I know it is a small sample size, but so far in 6 games his OBP is .588 and BA is .391. Looking at his career batting stats, one thing jumped out at me. Prior to this season he has struck out 2 - 3 times for each walk every season. So far this season he has walked 10 times and struck out just 3 times in 34 plate appearances. Obviously he is taking a different approach at the plate so far this season. Dawson or McCormick? Who deserves a roster spot more? |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on May 12, 2021 9:09:35 GMT -6
Dawson continued his good start to the season last night. He batted 5 times, walked twice and singled twice. I know it is a small sample size, but so far in 6 games his OBP is .588 and BA is .391. Looking at his career batting stats, one thing jumped out at me. Prior to this season he has struck out 2 - 3 times for each walk every season. So far this season he has walked 10 times and struck out just 3 times in 34 plate appearances. Obviously he is taking a different approach at the plate so far this season. Dawson or McCormick? Who deserves a roster spot more? How would we know? McCormick has never been seen on the field that I can recall. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 12, 2021 9:11:18 GMT -6
Dawson or McCormick? Who deserves a roster spot more? How would we know? McCormick has never been seen on the field that I can recall. Exactly. He has no edge on Dawson really. |
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Post by olpapa on May 12, 2021 9:17:30 GMT -6
Dawson continued his good start to the season last night. He batted 5 times, walked twice and singled twice. I know it is a small sample size, but so far in 6 games his OBP is .588 and BA is .391. Looking at his career batting stats, one thing jumped out at me. Prior to this season he has struck out 2 - 3 times for each walk every season. So far this season he has walked 10 times and struck out just 3 times in 34 plate appearances. Obviously he is taking a different approach at the plate so far this season. Dawson or McCormick? Who deserves a roster spot more? I don’t know that one deserves a roster spot more than the other. What I do know is that Dawson is off to a very good start at AAA and McCormick is not doing much with the limited playing time he has seen with the Astros. That said, I don’t see any reason to bring up Dawson if he is going to play no more than McCormick has. I have been a fan of Straw as he has progressed through the Astros minor league system. I believe he is capable of doing more with the bat and I KNOW he is a better glove man than he has shown so far this season. He had the CF job handed to him after Springer left. I’m thinking he may have become too comfortable and needs to be pushed. If I was going to bring up Dawson, I think I would send Straw down to AAA keep McCormick on the big league roster and insert Dawson in the Astros starting lineup in CF. |
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Post by blcoach8 on May 12, 2021 9:27:56 GMT -6
Maybe the Astros should promote the Sugarland hitting coach to the big club. After 6 games the skeeters have 9 players who have a batting average of .300 or higher and an OPS of .800 or higher. We need him if he knows what he's doing. The ones we have don't seem to be accomplishing anything. |
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Post by blcoach8 on May 12, 2021 9:29:33 GMT -6
How would we know? McCormick has never been seen on the field that I can recall. Exactly. He has no edge on Dawson really. McCormick made a couple of cameo appearances when Brantley was injured, but, he most sits and observes Straw's strikeouts and weak fly balls. |
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Post by blcoach8 on May 12, 2021 9:31:06 GMT -6
Dawson or McCormick? Who deserves a roster spot more? I don’t know that one deserves a roster spot more than the other. What I do know is that Dawson is off to a very good start at AAA and McCormick is not doing much with the limited playing time he has seen with the Astros. That said, I don’t see any reason to bring up Dawson if he is going to play no more than McCormick has. I have been a fan of Straw as he has progressed through the Astros minor league system. I believe he is capable of doing more with the bat and I KNOW he is a better glove man than he has shown so far this season. He had the CF job handed to him after Springer left. I’m thinking he may have become too comfortable and needs to be pushed. If I was going to bring up Dawson, I think I would send Straw down to AAA keep McCormick on the big league roster and insert Dawson in the Astros starting lineup in CF. Some guys needs to be pushed in order to get them to produce. That could very well be the case with Straw. They need to push him and find out. |
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Post by olpapa on May 12, 2021 10:05:56 GMT -6
Whatever happened to Santos He is listed on the Astros Gulf Coast Rookie League team roster. |
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