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#15551
1 minute ago, UTexasFight said:

Bregs’ kid was born at 7:08 last night

odds he was in front of the tv at 7:12 for the first pitch of last night’s game?

He named his boy Knox so who knows.

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#15556
17 minutes ago, LebongJames said:

Dusty is going to fuck around and not play Mancini and Christian. That was two perfect pitch hit ABs.

Did they even tell Dusty there are a couple of new guys on the team?

#15560
4 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

1B: Gurriel is hitting well the last 2 months; he is the 2021 batting champion and a clubhouse leader; I wouldn’t call that “glaring” but regardless they went out and got Mancini and Vazquez to upgrade the position.

LF: Brantley has a 128 wRC+ on the year; McCormick has been well above average at 111.  Again, wouldn’t call that glaring but they addressed it with Mancini.

Catcher: it is clear the Astros have a totally different value on defense, gamecalling, and pitcher management than fans (and most other teams).  But again, they addressed with Vazquez.

CF: With Meyers being hurt this is the only reasonable spot you can say they have a “glaring” hole.  But McCormick has been well above average here.  And even with a gimpy arm and obvious rust Meyers grades very well on defense and merely bad (not horrible) on offense.  If you assume he just needs a couple of weeks to get healthy and into a groove then this wouldn’t be viewed as a glaring hole.  But even if it is, what would you have had Click do?  Give up Luis Garcia for Harrison fuckin Bader?  No star CF got moved.  To beat out SD for Soto it would have taken something suicidal like Garcia, Javier, Brown, Leon, Whitley, and Diaz, and even that probably would not have beaten out the haul Washington got.  Who knows what the asking prices for Mullins and Reynolds and Happ were but they were high enough that no other team pulled the trigger.  So I guess it’s something to whine about but it doesn’t appear there was any realistic alternative to standing pat other than getting raped.

Brantley ain't playing again this year, McCormick can't hit against RHP, Gurriel's hot streak is completely unsustainable and still has no power with an OBP under .300, Mancini is one person and can't cover both holes at LF and 1B at the same time. This offense doesn't score runs because they have too many shitty hitters, 5 batters with OBP under .310 starting today. You aren't going to consistently score runs when players don't get on base.

There were plenty of realistic bats you could have gotten for nothing. Today's deadline proved it. Michael Taylor would have been a significant improvement over Meyers, and you could have gotten him for very little.

This team is one Alvarez injury away from being awful on offense. I don't understand it, why not maximize the chances to win a championship when your team is this good. Fuck, Joey Gallo would have improved this team. Hunter Brown was the only guy that should have been untradable, everyone else in this organization should have been available. It is very rare to get a Jeff Bagwell. Do you remember any of the players that the Astros got for Oswalt, Berkman, Lidge and Pence? I bet none of them came close to those players.

#15564

I'm embarrassed for Tucker, whether he is or not. I literally was hoping he'd go up there and at least try to bunt...but I guess we're just too manly for that. 

#15566

Another reason this team struggles to score runs. Tucker is struggling and does nothing to help the team improve their chances to score. Take one for the fucking team and bunt the runners over.

#15567
Just now, Gut Wagon said:

I'm embarrassed for Tucker, whether he is or not. I literally was hoping he'd go up there and at least try to bunt...but I guess we're just too manly for that. 

Not this shit again.  

#15568
2 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

I'm embarrassed for Tucker, whether he is or not. I literally was hoping he'd go up there and at least try to bunt...but I guess we're just too manly for that. 

At this point Dusty has to be the manager, and of course Diaz would have had a sac fly.

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#15576

Just a friendly reminder- a baseball team is never as bad as it looks when it’s in a failure to score runs funk. Which we’ve been in (absent the 10 spot against Seattle) for most of the last 8 or 9 days now. It gets better. 

#15580
2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Two men on, no outs, no runs.

Fantastic.

Two. 

Really just one.  Tucker’s sucked.   Diaz got unlucky.  Peña just missed it. 

#15581
Just now, Guadaloopy said:

Really just one.  Tucker’s sucked.   Diaz got unlucky.  Peña just missed it. 

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#15583

So Dusty didn’t play Mancini and Vasquez tonight because…? They were in their feelings?
 

Please sign me up to be traded from Baltimore/Boston, put me up in a suite at the Post Oak, and pay me millions of dollars. I’ll bounce back in about 5 seconds. 

#15584
2 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Really just one.  Tucker’s sucked.   Diaz got unlucky.  Peña just missed it. 

and yet, if Tucker does anything to move the runners up, Diaz scores Alvarez from 3rd. It's supposed to be a team sport, but the Astros play more like a collection of individuals.

2 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

New guys PH in 9th or we goin down with Jake and Maldy?

Which underscores the question of why they are even playing?

#15586

Instead of kissing Click's ass on the tv broadcast they should have asked him why he hasn't gotten a center fielder since Springer left.

#15587
3 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Really just one.  Tucker’s sucked.   Diaz got unlucky.  Peña just missed it. 

 

Two fly balls, not quality at bats 

#15589
1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Two fly balls, not quality at bats 

Hard hit balls are quality at bats in my book 

#15590
3 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

So Dusty didn’t play Mancini and Vasquez tonight because…? They were in their feelings?
 

Please sign me up to be traded from Baltimore/Boston, put me up in a suite at the Post Oak, and pay me millions of dollars. I’ll bounce back in about 5 seconds. 

Come on, dude.  Mancini had an exhausting flight from Cincinnati and Vasquez had a strenuous hike from the visitor’s clubhouse.  Perspective ..

#15591
1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

Mancini !!!

Send him back 

1 minute ago, rvm96 said:

Hard hit balls are quality at bats in my book 

If they at least move over the runners, yes 

#15592
2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Send him back 

If they at least move over the runners, yes 

I would disagree

#15597

1 run despite getting 11 men on base (9 hits, 2 BB). 

A second straight game where we get a quality start and flawless relief, can't score any further runs after an early lead, and a single batter on the other team beats us by 1 run.

When it rains, it fucking pours.

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