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I'm glad he's leaving him in.  Let the guy go for a shutout.  It's not like they're playing for anything else.
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7 minutes ago, Scraps said:

This just in: cy young award being renamed the kyle gibson award


Jfc hit the ball

Well, this shutout dropped his era to a microscopic 5.18.  Sometimes you just have to tip your cap.

 

At least Tucker hit it hard.

I haven't been paying super close attention this year...I do know that he is/was hurt, but wtf is going on with Altuve?

He looks like dogshit at the plate.

45 minutes ago, Tylerocks said:

I haven't been paying super close attention this year...I do know that he is/was hurt, but wtf is going on with Altuve?

He looks like dogshit at the plate.

His body is falling apart 

Na his mind is falling apart

Btw not sure if everyone is aware but game started at 610

Someone finally hit the ball

Tucker homer

Just gave $50 to the Carlos Correa Foundation, someone match me. 

5 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Just gave $50 to the Carlos Correa Foundation, someone match me. 

Hard to gripe about them not showing much of the game that half inning.  

Feels bad for Valdez to get that run on his stat line tonight 

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Hard to get too worked up over barely taking a series from that JV team the Rangers rolled out there. Tired of hearing about how well the Rangers pitched. Those guys were Jabronies last week and they'll be jabronies next week 

I love Framber.

 

I miss our bats.

5 hours ago, jkates said:

I love Framber.

 

I miss our bats.

Yeah man, it's something. They all (other than Yordan, Tucker and Brantley) caught a case of the suck at the same time, and then Yordan got hurt.  Nobody on the team over 900 ops.  Almost nobody over 800.  Nobody on any leaderboards other than Tucker probably.  

I haven't watched us much and I've watched everyone else for a total of about 5 minutes- is offense down all over the place, or is this an us thing?

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Think our favorite reporter maybe going into labor soon. Excited for her family and her.

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30 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:

Think our favorite reporter maybe going into labor soon. Excited for her family and her.

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Is lilshep gonna be handing out these?

 

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Atleast he will have a good reason to miss school next week

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Peacock done for the year. 99% that he’s also done playing for the Astros. 

I fucking hate Kole Calhoun

I’m setting a bunch of posts for a backyard patio tomorrow.

looks like I found my concrete guy in Taylor.
holy cement-mixer, Blake.

under .500 midway through september.  fuck 2020.

18 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Yeah man, it's something. They all (other than Yordan, Tucker and Brantley) caught a case of the suck at the same time, and then Yordan got hurt.  Nobody on the team over 900 ops.  Almost nobody over 800.  Nobody on any leaderboards other than Tucker probably.  

I haven't watched us much and I've watched everyone else for a total of about 5 minutes- is offense down all over the place, or is this an us thing?

BABIP has been down a lot league-wide...I think it has crept up in recent weeks, but it was way down around .275 and has historically been right around .300. 

Plenty of individual players are doing well, but other great players (Yelich, Bellinger, Bryant, in addition to Altuve) have been bad too. 

I think the thing to keep in mind is that, in an ordinary season, we'd be right around Memorial Day right now. So this is still a small sample size. 

Springer has been mostly himself after a bad start. Bregman notoriously starts slowly, and he hasn't been awful - one hot week and his numbers will be right where you'd expect. 

There was a good piece on Altuve's struggles in Fangraphs yesterday...doesn't really draw anything conclusive, but a good analysis. He's seeing fewer fastballs than ever. The most interesting part, to me, is that he has an unusually large standard deviation of launch angle, and the author notes there is a relationship between that and BABIP (meaning, his low BABIP is likely not all attributable to bad luck): 

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So, what’s going on? There are a few aspects of Altuve’s season that could rightly be passed off as chance-related, but others might serve as signals of decline in the second baseman’s skills. When trying to explain poor performance, one obvious place to look is to see whether pitchers are taking a new, more effective approach to a batter. Pitchers have been throwing Altuve more sliders than ever before, a 28% rate that’s nearly double what it was four or five years ago. He’s struggled facing the pitch this year, hitting .226 with no extra-base hits; with a .283/.312/.387 line against sliders over the course of his career, it’s the pitch he’s had the most trouble with. But those numbers are not disastrous in themselves. Before now, Altuve’s been really good at hitting just about everything.

Last month, my colleague Alex Chamberlain discussed Altuve’s launch angle tightness and how he’d been increasingly inconsistent in 2019, an inconsistency that persisted into the first few weeks of the 2020 season. Altuve’s standard deviation of launch angle of 32.7 degrees in 2020 would have ranked him dead-last in baseball last year. Inconsistency from a struggling player, one who used to be among the more consistent in baseball, isn’t what you want to see. And this is important because a large part of Altuve’s missing performance is BABIP-related and a tightly clustered launch angle has a relationship with that number. Altuve had a career .340 BABIP entering 2019, put up a .303 last year, and is standing at .254 this year.

The zBABIP model in ZiPS does not include a concept of how tightly clustered a hitter’s launch angle is — though I’ve been experimenting with how to include such data in the model — and Altuve has are additional BABIP worries beyond the consistency of his launch angle. There is strong evidence of some poor luck here, with ZiPS thinking Altuve ought to have a .303 BABIP right now, some 50 points above his actual numbers. So, chalk it up to poor fortune and declare 2020 a fluke? Not so fast. If we divvy up the six hits ZiPS sees as missing and, based on Altuve’s profile, add a double and five singles to his record, it only gets him to .255/.317/.353 — less of a disaster, but still a pretty bleak season from a non-ancient player who was once a regular MVP candidate. One of the oddities in Altuve’s profile — and perhaps an explanation for his inconsistent launch angle — is that he’s increasingly gotten his hits from bad pitches. When an at-bat has been resolved by a pitch in what Statcast defines as the “heart” of the strike zone, he’s a career .360 hitter. That dropped to .297 in 2019 and .250 this year.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/is-jose-altuve-still-on-target-for-3000-hits/

 

16 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Peacock done for the year. 99% that he’s also done playing for the Astros. 

Thanks for World Series game 3, Peacock.  He strutted his stuff that night.

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Tip of the hat to JV. Amazing how stupid Astros medical staff can be in delaying players surgery when its needed.

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9 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:

Tip of the hat to JV. Amazing how stupid Astros medical staff can be in delaying players surgery when its needed.

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He was going to be out next year regardless. Let the rebuild begin. CYA JV, George, Yuli, Josh and Uncle Mike. It was a hell of a lot of fun while it lasted

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No doubt he was but it seems many players have had "nagging " injuries for months only to need surgery that further delays playing again. 2021 Astros are going to look completely different. Always have support and appreciation for the 2015 to 2019 guys.

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At least we got a championship before the rebuild. Lots of "what ifs" like 2019 but at least we finally got our chip in 2017

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48 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:

No doubt he was but it seems many players have had "nagging " injuries for months only to need surgery that further delays playing again. 2021 Astros are going to look completely different. Always have support and appreciation for the 2015 to 2019 guys.

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They definitely fucked up the Alvarez situation 

26 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

At least we got a championship before the rebuild. Lots of "what ifs" like 2019 but at least we finally got our chip in 2017

And if we don't sign Springer, we get nothing for him.

He was going to be out next year regardless. Let the rebuild begin. CYA JV, George, Yuli, Josh and Uncle Mike. It was a hell of a lot of fun while it lasted

And JV makes $33 million next season.

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