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[Game Thread] Texas @ Iowa State on FS1
This looks so much like a Strong team.
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[Game Thread] Texas @ Iowa State on FS1
Remember when everyone thought we would win 8+ games this season? LMAO.
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[Game Thread] Texas @ Iowa State on FS1
Is Card injured? What does Sark have to lose by making a change here?
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[Game Thread] Texas at Baylor 11am on ABC
I do think people underestimated how much value Sam provided and how much he would be missed. He had clear deficiencies as a QB but he fit that system fairly well and his running ability probably did more than we realized to help out our line.
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[Game Thread] Texas at Baylor 11am on ABC
I just can’t figure that out. Maybe there’s just so little that this offense can execute that once the other team figures out how to stop our initial script/game plan we’re just fucked.
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Texas Football 2021 In-Season Thread: Can we get a redo?
You would think we would luck into a good hire after three chances. i don’t think we’re Nebraska though where there’s just no good reason to expect being anything more than mediocre. We can still pay top dollar for coaching and still have the potential to recruit lights out. We just need the right coach.
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[Game Thread] Texas at Baylor 11am on ABC
This looks more like a Charlie team than a Herman team where by the end of the game we just don’t even look competitive. Is the talent level in the program back to where it was in 2015 and 2016? What happened? I thought Herman recruited well his first couple of seasons or was that a mirage? I don’t want to come to any conclusions yet about how Sark will turn out here but at the same time this team isn’t coming to close to meeting our expectations (9+ wins and at least a threat to win the conference) heading into this season. Maybe those expectations weren’t reasonable though.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
It's not the Yankees or White Sox pens but the stuff from our relievers is pretty good. Pressly is an elite closer. Graveman has returned to form now that he's given up trying to bring his cruveball back. Maton obviously has bigtime strikeout stuff and Javier has returned to form with his slider being one of the deadliest pitches thrown by anyone in this series. Also, Raley is probably one of the most underrated relievers in the sport.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
I'm using those stats descriptively. I'm not using them to form any kind of prediction about how this series will play out from today. I thought that was clear from my post but maybe it wasn't.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
What are you trying to say? I'm just pointing out that the Astros pen has been dominant since at least the beginning of the ALCS. If the Astros end up winning the World Series they will be one of the biggest reasons why. The way the Astros have constructed their pen interests me. They have really invested in the gyroball fad with Pressly, Yimi, and particularly Maton, the king of gyrospin.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
Houston's pen has an expected wOBA of .201 so far this series. Going back to the beginning of the ALCS, they have an expected wOBA of .250.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
I wouldn't trust elote north or east of San Antonio.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
Possibly, but I think both pitchers had better stuff and located much better in their second appearances of the series. Hopefully that carries over as I was convinced Garcia was finished this year. If Framber and Garcia are still locating in the mid-90s I think we are in good shape.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
I’d maybe put this series at 52/48 Houston and that’s only because of what Framber and Garcia showed in the ALCS. The Astros clearly have the better lineup but I’m a big believer in pitching > hitting in the playoffs and Fried/Morton have been much more consistent this season than Valdez/Garcia.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
I’ve never had a good elote in Houston tbh.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
Flexing over Adam Duvall is like Astros fans flexing over Chas McCormick.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
That’s nice but Albies doesn’t get on base all that often so overall he’s been about average the past couple of seasons and his xwOBA doesn’t indicate that he’s been unlucky either. Duvall isn’t all that much different. Neither has had a >.350 xwOBA in their respective careers. Yawn.
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2021 World Series: Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves
I think the White Sox are probably the best team the Astros will have faced in the post-season. They had the best pitching staff in baseball and a well-above average hitting lineup, with their only real flaw being their fielding. I'm still surprised we blew up their starters in each game of that series. The Braves are good at a lot of things but aren't really elite at anything. I think Riley, Freeman, and Soler are good hitters, but after that the lineup fades pretty quickly. Rosario and Pederson have been hot but both are generally average hitters. With that being said, I think this series will probably come down to which versions of Valdez, Garcia, and Javier the Astros get in this series. Those three guys turned the ALCS around and shut a red hot Red Sox offense down. If they play like they did in games 4-6 of the ALCS then I think the Astros win fairly comfortably, if not then this series could go either way.
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2021 Houston Astros Thread
He's at least been putting the ball in the air lately. Hopefully he can keep doing that and hopefully take a walk. That's really the only part of his offensive game that's a plus.
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2021 Houston Astros Thread
People were complaining about Cora using Eovaldi there but he is locked in until he either got rattled by that Castro hit or ran out of gas. That was an extremely tough AB by Castro. No way in Hell is Maldy able to foul off that heater at the top of the zone to get to that hanging splitter.
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ALCS -- Red Sox vs Astros
And Hinch's greatest crime was that he didn't protest it's used hard enough, unlike Cora who actually instigated for it and helped design it. Also, they couldn't even find any concrete evidence linking Luhnow to the scheme (though i'm sure he was aware to some extent). Luhnow built the whole fucking org from the foundation up and losing him was a very heavy price to pay. And these idiot fans are screaming "cheaters" after the game. lmao.
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ALCS -- Red Sox vs Astros
The guy had no business calling that game. The fact that post-season work isn't merit based in some fashion is absurd but this is MLB. I also don't buy the ump union being the entire and insuperable roadblock to fixing some of these issues. Just negotiate.
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ALCS -- Red Sox vs Astros
The fact that Cora, one of the two main architects of the system, is permitted to be a manager shows what a joke the whole thing was. They finally got rid of Luhnow though, which is probably what the league really wanted.
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2021 Houston Astros Thread
Saying you see the strike zone as a "binary" when an ump is calling balls/strikes is so preposterous. Hitters do not see it that way and are not going to swing at those kinds of pitches because they know there's a good chance that it's not going to get called even if it does catch a piece of the zone.
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2021 Houston Astros Thread
Passan, a columnist paid far too much to talk out of his ass, was unaware that a human being and not a computer would be calling calls and strikes in that game.