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Post by m240 on May 25, 2019 11:14:33 GMT -6
Wow. Beer must really be slow. The Hooks went into extra innings tonight and since Beer made the last out the previous inning, he was placed on second base as the gimme runner to start the inning. The Corpus manager pulled him from the game and replaced him with a pinch runner.... catcher Lorenzo Quintana. Beer is slooooooooooooow. They use time lapse photography to show him rounding the bases on a home run. |
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 13:05:12 GMT -6
Tucker is 14-37 with 4 home runs in his last 10 games. He has his batting average for the season up to .266 now after batting .173 in April.
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 13:10:16 GMT -6
Abraham Toro is on a 10-game hitting streak for Corpus in which he is 18-36 with 2 home runs, 2 doubles, 8 walks and 8 strikeouts.
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 13:24:41 GMT -6
Luis Santana... the key prospect that the Astros got from the Mets in the JD Davis trade... has been assigned to AA Corpus Christi. It will be interesting to see how he does. He has never played above the Rookie League level before. I notice that he is listed as a SS on the Corpus roster. He has only started 4 of his minor league games at SS. He has started 125 games at 2B and 1 at 3B.
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 13:48:19 GMT -6
SS Jonathan Arauz has extended his hitting streak to 8 games at Advanced A. He is 17-32 with 5 doubles, 4 walks and 4 strikeouts in those 8 games.
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 13:55:03 GMT -6
SS Jeremy Pena has hits in 9 of his last 10 games in which he is batting .439 (18-41) with 4 doubles, 3 triples, 2 home runs, 5 walks and 7 strike outs.
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 14:50:16 GMT -6
I just checked Tucker’s splits for 2019. He is batting just .180 vs lefties this year. I thought he had hit lefties well in the past so I checked it out. He batted over .300 vs lefties at AAA in 2018, at AA and Advanced A in 2017 and at Full Season A in 2016.
I would be curious to see if Tucker struggled mightily against lefties in April and then started hitting them in May as he has hit them in past years. Maybe that could account for the .173 BA in April and the .364 BA so far in May. I don’t know where to find a players batting splits broken down month by month. Maybe Doug can provide us that info.
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 21:06:46 GMT -6
Bukauskus stunk the place up tonight. 4.2 IP, 6 H, 4 BB, 5 ER, 5 K. ERA now 7.27.
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Post by olpapa on May 25, 2019 21:43:20 GMT -6
Tucker and Alvarez both went 1-4 tonight. Tucker got home run #15. Straw got his 16th stolen base.
Corpus is in extra innings tonight. Abraham Toro is 3-5 with a triple and his 9th home run to extend his hitting streak to 11 games. He is 21-41 with 3 home runs, 2 doubles and a triple in his last 11 games.
Beer is 4-5 with 4 singles so far tonight.
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Post by m240 on May 26, 2019 7:00:41 GMT -6
What is up with all of our pitching depth in the upper minors. We thought we thought we had a bunch of King Kongs and they are pitching like a bunch of cheetahs.
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Post by thomasj13 on May 26, 2019 7:39:46 GMT -6
What is up with all of our pitching depth in the upper minors. We thought we thought we had a bunch of King Kongs and they are pitching like a bunch of cheetahs. Somebody must be lion |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 26, 2019 7:50:51 GMT -6
Tucker and Alvarez both went 1-4 tonight. Tucker got home run #15. Straw got his 16th stolen base. Corpus is in extra innings tonight. Abraham Toro is 3-5 with a triple and his 9th home run to extend his hitting streak to 11 games. He is 21-41 with 3 home runs, 2 doubles and a triple in his last 11 games. Beer is 4-5 with 4 singles so far tonight. The questions are: 1. Do you call up a cold Álvarez? 2. Do you call up a hot Tucker? 3. Do you call up a speedy Straw? Any of these likely involves losing Kemp. I don’t see them giving up on White for whatever reason. Maybe they will cut both and choose two of the above options so we don’t have the silly debate anymore. |
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Post by m240 on May 26, 2019 9:56:32 GMT -6
What is up with all of our pitching depth in the upper minors. We thought we thought we had a bunch of King Kongs and they are pitching like a bunch of cheetahs. Somebody must be lion You are a little too young to remember that cheetah was Tarzan's pet monkey. |
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Post by m240 on May 26, 2019 10:03:53 GMT -6
Tucker and Alvarez both went 1-4 tonight. Tucker got home run #15. Straw got his 16th stolen base. Corpus is in extra innings tonight. Abraham Toro is 3-5 with a triple and his 9th home run to extend his hitting streak to 11 games. He is 21-41 with 3 home runs, 2 doubles and a triple in his last 11 games. Beer is 4-5 with 4 singles so far tonight. The questions are: 1. Do you call up a cold Álvarez? 2. Do you call up a hot Tucker? 3. Do you call up a speedy Straw? Any of these likely involves losing Kemp. I don’t see them giving up on White for whatever reason. Maybe they will cut both and choose two of the above options so we don’t have the silly debate anymore. I hope Fisher, White, and Kemp all get hotter than hell and we trade all three of them for prospects. Then turn around and use those prospects to refill the system after we trade for a #3/4/5 starter. Right now we are where I thought we would be when the season started, using the #5 spot to allow some of the kids to prove that they belong. So far James, Martin, Valdez, Whitley, and Bukauskas all look like kids playing with men. But you know it is a long season so maybe one or two of them will wake up and say I got this. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 26, 2019 10:07:52 GMT -6
The questions are: 1. Do you call up a cold Álvarez? 2. Do you call up a hot Tucker? 3. Do you call up a speedy Straw? Any of these likely involves losing Kemp. I don’t see them giving up on White for whatever reason. Maybe they will cut both and choose two of the above options so we don’t have the silly debate anymore. I hope Fisher, White, and Kemp all get hotter than hell and we trade all three of them for prospects. Then turn around and use those prospects to refill the system after we trade for a #3/4/5 starter. Right now we are where I thought we would be when the season started, using the #5 spot to allow some of the kids to prove that they belong. So far James, Martin, Valdez, Whitley, and Bukauskas all look like kids playing with men. But you know it is a long season so maybe one or two of them will wake up and say I got this. We can all hope for that, but in the meantime a couple of them are out of options, and we need to see what the Round Rock stars have in store for the majors. Tough decisions are there for Luhnow. |
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Post by thomasj13 on May 26, 2019 13:37:33 GMT -6
You are a little too young to remember that cheetah was Tarzan's pet monkey. I take that as a compliment, thanks. |
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Post by olpapa on May 26, 2019 18:20:16 GMT -6
In his first at-bat today Toro extended his hitting streak to 12 games. There’s a guy who is definitely building up some trade value.
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Post by unionstation82 on May 26, 2019 18:52:54 GMT -6
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Post by olpapa on May 26, 2019 20:34:24 GMT -6
SS Jonathan Arauz is 20-40 with 6 doubles and a home run in his last 10 games for Advanced A Fayetteville.
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Post by olpapa on May 26, 2019 20:41:09 GMT -6
Cristian Javier pitched 4.2 innings of no-hit shoutout ball today with 2 walks and 6 strikeouts in his second game at AA.
Seth Beer went 2-4 with a double and a hone run today. He is batting .395 since being promoted to AA.
Beer, Cristian Javier and Abraham Toro all should be valuable trade assets.
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Post by olpapa on May 26, 2019 20:46:58 GMT -6
Tucker has raised his batting average 100 points.... from .167 to .267 ... since May 1st.
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Post by olpapa on May 27, 2019 5:40:22 GMT -6
Alvarez has just 2 hits in 24 at-bats over his last 6 games; however, he has struck out just 3 times while walking 3 times in those 6 games. So it’s not like he is not putting the bat on the ball. he is making contact. The ball just isn’t finding a hole. Maybe this is the required period of adversity that he must go through before being promoted to Houston.
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Post by olpapa on May 27, 2019 6:31:56 GMT -6
Joshua Rojas is on fire at Corpus Christi. He has multiple hits in 7 of his last 8 games. He has multiple home runs in 3 of those games. He is 19-35 with 4 doubles and 6 home runs in those games. He batted .274 in April and is batting .351 in May.
He batted .311 in April and .339 in May last season and then faded in June - August. It will be interesting to see if he fades again this season. This is a guy who I was thinking has the potential to fill the role Marwin Gonzalez filled the last few years. He can play multiple positions. In 2018 he played in 10 games in RF; 39 games in LF; 20 games at 1B; 22 games at 2B; 17 games at 3B and 10 games at SS. Playing all those positions, he committed 10 errors in 419 total chances in 2018.
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Post by m240 on May 27, 2019 7:26:34 GMT -6
Alvarez has just 2 hits in 24 at-bats over his last 6 games; however, he has struck out just 3 times while walking 3 times in those 6 games. So it’s not like he is not putting the bat on the ball. he is making contact. The ball just isn’t finding a hole. Maybe this is the required period of adversity that he must go through before being promoted to Houston. Houston does have an interesting dilemma this year in that all three outfielders are hitting over 300 and the fourth, Marisnick is hitting way above his head so far this year. They have a huge hole in their line up at both 1st and dh but Alvarez is not a very good first baseman so given all the restrictions that are performance based and his inability to field a position his at bats would be limited in the bigs. So if you were Houston and you wanted to acquire a front line starter with some team control and keep all the trade value on a prospect like him for as long as possible why bring him up so he does not get consistent at bats at the major league level. They currently are flying under the cover of the super 2 issue but that goes away right after the draft so if Alvarez gets it going again in the next two weeks it would not surprise me if he was the center piece on a trade for a front line starter. |
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Post by astrosdoug on May 27, 2019 8:15:13 GMT -6
I read somewhere that Straw wasn't in the lineup as normal at Round Rock... maybe he is getting called up? He's been playing shortstop recently so maybe he sort of qualifies as an 'infield replacement'.
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Post by astrosdoug on May 27, 2019 8:20:45 GMT -6
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Post by astrosdoug on May 27, 2019 8:35:45 GMT -6
wonder how long SuperJack stays on the 40-man. On one hand, Altuve will probably bump him back to Round Rock in just a few days' time. But arguably, SuperJack is much more deserving than AJ Reed (to think of just one player) on the 40-man. If Reed were placed on waivers to get him off the 40-man, I doubt any team claims him... and if one did, Luhnow probably won't cry himself to sleep over it.
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Post by olpapa on May 27, 2019 9:10:00 GMT -6
I think it is a classy move by Luhnow to call up Mayfield. It will be for just a short stint, but the guy has worked had and preserved. I agree with Doug. He certainly is more deserving of a spot on the 40-man roster than is Reed.
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Post by olpapa on May 27, 2019 9:39:32 GMT -6
Alvarez has just 2 hits in 24 at-bats over his last 6 games; however, he has struck out just 3 times while walking 3 times in those 6 games. So it’s not like he is not putting the bat on the ball. he is making contact. The ball just isn’t finding a hole. Maybe this is the required period of adversity that he must go through before being promoted to Houston. Houston does have an interesting dilemma this year in that all three outfielders are hitting over 300 and the fourth, Marisnick is hitting way above his head so far this year. They have a huge hole in their line up at both 1st and dh but Alvarez is not a very good first baseman so given all the restrictions that are performance based and his inability to field a position his at bats would be limited in the bigs. So if you were Houston and you wanted to acquire a front line starter with some team control and keep all the trade value on a prospect like him for as long as possible why bring him up so he does not get consistent at bats at the major league level. The I am hoping that Luhnow will hold onto both Alvarez and Tucker. Brantley, Springer, Reddick, Yuli and Marisnick will all be free agents in 2021. I am hoping Luhnow will extend Springer, but in order to do so he is going to have to move some high dollar players from the roster and replace them with players who will be inexpensive for a few years. Subtracting Brantley, Reddick, Yuli and Marisnick and replacing them with guys like Alvarez, Tucker, Straw, Beer, Toro would improve our chances of holding onto George. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 27, 2019 12:06:31 GMT -6
Houston does have an interesting dilemma this year in that all three outfielders are hitting over 300 and the fourth, Marisnick is hitting way above his head so far this year. They have a huge hole in their line up at both 1st and dh but Alvarez is not a very good first baseman so given all the restrictions that are performance based and his inability to field a position his at bats would be limited in the bigs. So if you were Houston and you wanted to acquire a front line starter with some team control and keep all the trade value on a prospect like him for as long as possible why bring him up so he does not get consistent at bats at the major league level. The I am hoping that Luhnow will hold onto both Alvarez and Tucker. Brantley, Springer, Reddick, Yuli and Marisnick will all be free agents in 2021. I am hoping Luhnow will extend Springer, but in order to do so he is going to have to move some high dollar players from the roster and replace them with players who will be inexpensive for a few years. Subtracting Brantley, Reddick, Yuli and Marisnick and replacing them with guys like Alvarez, Tucker, Straw, Beer, Toro would improve our chances of holding onto George. Like I said about Springer, you’ve got to reward the guys who got you there. In my opinion, besides maybe Altuve, none was bigger than Springer. |
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