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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 7, 2019 15:59:21 GMT -6
Another odd thing. Seattle has outscored the Astros by more than twice after we score 9 runs. Somebody needs to check out whether Barry Bonds has moved north to be their personal trainer. The cream eventually rises to the top. Beckham is playing like a star FCOL. |
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Post by Saint on Apr 7, 2019 16:24:07 GMT -6
Felt like a rough road back to .500 but they're here. Tough series coming up!
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Post by abregmanfan on Apr 7, 2019 16:25:21 GMT -6
We will sweep the Yankees!!!
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Post by blcoach8 on Apr 7, 2019 20:06:49 GMT -6
He's looking good overall though. Everybody has bad games. Correa is the last person we should be criticizing now. I amhoping they stop wasting a roster spot on Stassi |
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Post by abregmanfan on Apr 7, 2019 20:29:47 GMT -6
Correa is the last person we should be criticizing now. I amhoping they stop wasting a roster spot on Stassi Who do you want to take Stassi's roster spot? |
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Post by paastrosfan on Apr 7, 2019 20:50:54 GMT -6
We will sweep the Yankees!!! With the MASH report in NY, if the Stros show some offense they should be able to sweep the AAA Rail riders. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 7, 2019 21:05:18 GMT -6
Astros better watch out for Torres and Sánchez. They’re killing the ball right now.
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 7, 2019 21:13:09 GMT -6
Correa is the last person we should be criticizing now. I amhoping they stop wasting a roster spot on Stassi They can’t all be Buster Posey. |
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Post by paastrosfan on Apr 7, 2019 22:04:58 GMT -6
Astros better watch out for Torres and Sánchez. They’re killing the ball right now. The Yankees feasted on Stros cast off Straily and no names Hess and Wright. We can only hope JV has better command than his last start. |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 5:44:52 GMT -6
That was seriously the most entertaining baseball game I've watched since Game 5 of the WS.
When the two balls hit up on the rafters, you just knew it was going to be a strange game.
Treinen is gold for about 15 pitches but he runs out of gas when his pitch count gets to 20. I just knew if the Astros were patient at the plate against him, they would prevail.
WAsn't Gattis the last Astros to have a walk-off walk?
Nice to see Diaz finding his swing and playing decent defense. Yuli also had to go through an adjustment period when he joined the team in 2016. There was one game that year where Yuli had 2 or maybe even 3 errors. Dropping pop-ups and the whole 9 yards.
The A's had some legit gripes about ball-strike calling but the Astros often fall victim to the same thing. The time for electronic ball-strike calling is here. ..
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 5:49:43 GMT -6
Correa's relay throw to 3rd was a piece of art
Not sure why Chirinos decided to bunt. If the point was to get Reddick to 3B, I'd have preferred he just try for a straight steal. With Diaz at 1B, a double steal would have been a bad idea though.
Astros left 12 men on base that game, a little more aggressive running game would probably have reduced that number and made it less of a nail-biter.
Watching the Astros shell Fiers... priceless.
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 5:50:34 GMT -6
I predict a tie game in the bottom of the 9th. AJ pinch hits Verlander and he hits a walk off Inside-The-Park-Homerun. Well you had the first half of that right! |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 5:58:50 GMT -6
Why’s James’s fastball only at 95 mph? I saw him hit 97 for sure today and maybe he touched 98 once. He appeared to be throwing a little harder in this game than he did in the previous game. I was glad to see Hinch push him to pitch two days in a row. Helps us see what he's made of. Whatever was wrong with his arm in ST appears to have eaten into his velocity a little. Maybe he will ramp it back up to 100 in a few weeks. |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 6:00:18 GMT -6
Boneheaded play by Semien. Chapman leaving the third base bag to corral a ball hit to the shortstop wasn't too bright either. |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 6:01:25 GMT -6
Kemp with the power shot. so who hugs Kemp when he hits a HR? Was this ever fully thought through? Can he hug himself? |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 6:05:12 GMT -6
OMFG Springer beat Laureano! Only a couple guys could have made it home on that throw. The dude is deadly in center. I always liked Laureano when he was an Astros minor leaguer. Kind of ironic that Springer was the guy who prevented Laureano from getting a CF job with the big league club (for the most part anyway). Teoscar has done quite well for the Blue Jays. The Astros system just seems stacked with CF's for some reason. No room to employ them all. |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 6:07:49 GMT -6
He was counting on Altuve swinging at stuff out of the zone. Way to go Altuve. That AB really showed how Altuve has matured compared to a couple years ago. If Altuve can develop Bregman-like plate discipline, watch out. |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 6:10:00 GMT -6
Astros better watch out for Torres and Sánchez. They’re killing the ball right now. the sabermetrics guys hate the intentional walk, but seriously, in some situations I'd rather give Sanchez one base instead of a chance for four. |
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Post by marshall on Apr 8, 2019 7:09:19 GMT -6
He was counting on Altuve swinging at stuff out of the zone. Way to go Altuve. That AB really showed how Altuve has matured compared to a couple years ago. If Altuve can develop Bregman-like plate discipline, watch out. It has appeared to me that he has specifically worked on plate discipline this off season and spring. This has lead to taking some pitches over the plate, but he hasn't reverted to swinging at balls in the dirt too often. |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 7:44:01 GMT -6
That AB really showed how Altuve has matured compared to a couple years ago. If Altuve can develop Bregman-like plate discipline, watch out. It has appeared to me that he has specifically worked on plate discipline this off season and spring. This has lead to taking some pitches over the plate, but he hasn't reverted to swinging at balls in the dirt too often. it's good to see that he didn't sit on his laurels this spring and stay content with his usual style of play. Altuve doesn't have a huge amount of room for improvement, but he does have some. The swinging away on the first pitch habit was allowing opposing pitchers to keep their pitch counts down. And while it's impressive that he can often get a base hit off of a pitch that is way outside the strike zone, if he can go deep into counts, he will tend to get more center-cut pitches to hit. The other thing I'd like to see him work on is his baserunning. He has below-average decision-making while running the bases, leaning towards the reckless side in terms of trying to stretch hits from singles to doubles, doubles to triples, etc. That is more of a mental thing for him to work on. |
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 7:49:34 GMT -6
the Astros' team WHIP is sitting right at 1.00... pretty amazing really. Only the Rays and Tigers are pitching better in the AL.
And even after giving up all the HRs today, the pitching staff has only given up 9 HRs since the season started, which is below the MLB average.
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Post by astrosdoug on Apr 8, 2019 7:51:59 GMT -6
Astros team OPS last year was .754. So far this season, the club is hitting .760.
If they could bump that up to the .800 level and keep on pitching strong, we might see a better team than either the 2017 or the 2018 squad.
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 8, 2019 7:53:17 GMT -6
Only a couple guys could have made it home on that throw. The dude is deadly in center. I always liked Laureano when he was an Astros minor leaguer. Kind of ironic that Springer was the guy who prevented Laureano from getting a CF job with the big league club (for the most part anyway). Teoscar has done quite well for the Blue Jays. The Astros system just seems stacked with CF's for some reason. No room to employ them all. The front office’s love affair with Marisnick also held Laureano down. While he doesn’t have the same level of power or isn’t as graceful on defense, I think that Laureano is superior in every other way. Both his arm and throwing accuracy are vastly superior. He’s a better baserunner, is faster, and has a higher chance of successful stolen bases. |
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Post by Saint on Apr 8, 2019 7:58:51 GMT -6
I always liked Laureano when he was an Astros minor leaguer. Kind of ironic that Springer was the guy who prevented Laureano from getting a CF job with the big league club (for the most part anyway). Teoscar has done quite well for the Blue Jays. The Astros system just seems stacked with CF's for some reason. No room to employ them all. The front office’s love affair with Marisnick also held Laureano down. While he doesn’t have the same level of power or isn’t as graceful on defense, I think that Laureano is superior in every other way. Both his arm and throwing accuracy are vastly superior. He’s a better baserunner, is faster, and has a higher chance of successful stolen bases. I think people spend too much time worrying about Marisnick. He's not going to make or break this team, and he'll be gone next year because they won't want to pay him the $4-6 million he'd be due to make. |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Apr 8, 2019 8:30:18 GMT -6
How many games has "late inning defensive replacement" Joke started this year? How many men has he left on base by being entirely incompetent at the plate?
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Post by paastrosfan on Apr 8, 2019 8:55:48 GMT -6
Kemp with the power shot. so who hugs Kemp when he hits a HR? Was this ever fully thought through? Can he hug himself? Tony lost his hugging buddy Gattis. |
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Post by paastrosfan on Apr 8, 2019 9:02:38 GMT -6
Only a couple guys could have made it home on that throw. The dude is deadly in center. I always liked Laureano when he was an Astros minor leaguer. Kind of ironic that Springer was the guy who prevented Laureano from getting a CF job with the big league club (for the most part anyway). Teoscar has done quite well for the Blue Jays. The Astros system just seems stacked with CF's for some reason. No room to employ them all. When you think of all the talk on the board during the rebuild in 13 it was always about the minor league system and how the Stros were four or five years away. Most of the prospects were in the lower minors. Now you look around the league and see how these guys are producing elsewhere. Just seeing JD Davis going yard twice for the Mets on Saturday. I always thought this guy had some potential to do something if he gets a full shot chance, but it couldn't be here. Like you mentioned the Stros couldn't keep them all. |
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Post by olpapa on Apr 8, 2019 9:04:18 GMT -6
I always liked Laureano when he was an Astros minor leaguer. Kind of ironic that Springer was the guy who prevented Laureano from getting a CF job with the big league club (for the most part anyway). Teoscar has done quite well for the Blue Jays. The Astros system just seems stacked with CF's for some reason. No room to employ them all. The front office’s love affair with Marisnick also held Laureano down. While he doesn’t have the same level of power or isn’t as graceful on defense, I think that Laureano is superior in every other way. Both his arm and throwing accuracy are vastly superior. He’s a better baserunner, is faster, and has a higher chance of successful stolen bases. I’m more bummed that we moved Laureano because we had no room on the 40-man roster and we held onto Reed. |
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Post by olpapa on Apr 8, 2019 9:09:43 GMT -6
I’m looking for a big day from Bregman and Kemp. Called it. |
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Post by paastrosfan on Apr 8, 2019 9:11:14 GMT -6
Speaking of losing players now on MLB Network talking about how great Josh Hader is. Talk about insult to injury.
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