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#5202
39 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Dubon needs to bat 6-8th

No fucking shit. It's what's so irritating about Dusty.  Want to ride the hot streak?  eh- no- but whatever. Now you have a clearly shitty hitter for his career that's below average this year after a hot streak and you are still giving him more AB's than anyone else. Grrrrrrr.  Makes zero sense.   With this collection of spares if I was trying to win a game tomorrow I would go like this:

Tucker/Alvarez/Chas/Bregman/Pena/Brantley/Diaz/Meyers/Dubon

Best hitter 2nd. Best OB/steal 1st, Chas up to face a lefty on the 3 batter minimum rule if they bring in Tucker, 3rd best hitter cleanup, after that in descending order of quality as a hitter. That's how I have them ranked every day. Brantley plays 1b. Meyers CF, Chas Left, Yordan DH.

#5206
14 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Loperfido and Wagner, I have hope. Clifford also gives us another developmental 1B. Gilbert in CF. Lefties all over the place.


I’m veeeeery interested to see how Clifford develops. 

#5207
20 hours ago, hornmpa96 said:

They need to sit Abreu for at least a week and see if he can get his mind right. Find a slumpbuster and do whatever it takes. Brantley and Diaz can fill in at first.

Big Chicken GIF
 

#5208
1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:


I’m veeeeery interested to see how Clifford develops. 

Power likely comes next year, but the hit tool with BB% has me very excited.

#5209
1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

Power likely comes next year, but the hit tool with BB% has me very excited.


the kid has skills. Vandy has an eye for talent 

#5210
Meanwhile, Ronel Blanco will start tonight for the Space Cowboys and be followed by Matt Allgeyer, the lefty Houston acquired from the Phillies last week.

 

#5214

You know how Kyle Tucker is always mentioned as one of the most underrated players in the game?  His ma ager always batting him 5th - 7th is probably a big part of that.

#5217
Michael Brantley has stopped hitting, Dusty Baker said. Baker said it’s unclear when he’ll return and he said it is not a setback.

 

#5218
2 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:
Michael Brantley has stopped hitting, Dusty Baker said. Baker said it’s unclear when he’ll return and he said it is not a setback.

 

John Turturro Sense GIF

#5219
25 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:
Michael Brantley has stopped hitting, Dusty Baker said. Baker said it’s unclear when he’ll return and he said it is not a setback.

 

Not a set back huh?  Ok. 
What a fucking stupid off-season. 2 of the 3 were beyond obvious. That Abreu is the worst 1B in the majors is just a fun little dick punch. 

#5220
54 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:
Michael Brantley has stopped hitting, Dusty Baker said. Baker said it’s unclear when he’ll return and he said it is not a setback.

 

Frustrated Head GIF

#5221

I hope you guys realize there's a very good chance that Chandler Rome is being a dickhead again and not taking Dusty at his word that it's just for rest and he's very close to playing.

We all had similar freakouts about Yordan, remember?

The tweet McTaggart wrote is significantly different in tone than the alarmist one Rome tweeted above.

I know which one of these guys I trust and which one I don't.

I'm just sayin is all. 

#5222
Dusty Baker said Brantley “is still not ready, but he’s close.”He’s encouraged by Altuve getting at-bats in a simulated game, but rain in Sugar Land and San Antonio (where Corpus Christi is playing), appears to have complicated plans for rehab assignment.

 

#5223
3 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

I hope you guys realize there's a very good chance that Chandler Rome is being a dickhead again and not taking Dusty at his word that it's just for rest and he's very close to playing.

We all had similar freakouts about Yordan, remember?

The tweet McTaggart wrote is significantly different in tone than the alarmist one Rome tweeted above.

I know which one of these guys I trust and which one I don't.

I'm just sayin is all. 


Rome hates dusty. Be probably a posts here 

#5224
5 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

No fucking shit. It's what's so irritating about Dusty.  Want to ride the hot streak?  eh- no- but whatever. Now you have a clearly shitty hitter for his career that's below average this year after a hot streak and you are still giving him more AB's than anyone else. Grrrrrrr.  Makes zero sense.   With this collection of spares if I was trying to win a game tomorrow I would go like this:

Tucker/Alvarez/Chas/Bregman/Pena/Brantley/Diaz/Meyers/Dubon

Best hitter 2nd. Best OB/steal 1st, Chas up to face a lefty on the 3 batter minimum rule if they bring in Tucker, 3rd best hitter cleanup, after that in descending order of quality as a hitter. That's how I have them ranked every day. Brantley plays 1b. Meyers CF, Chas Left, Yordan DH.


Doesn’t dubon lead the team in hits and avg ? 

Edited by tx 3 putt

#5225
5 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

No fucking shit. It's what's so irritating about Dusty.  Want to ride the hot streak?  eh- no- but whatever. Now you have a clearly shitty hitter for his career that's below average this year after a hot streak and you are still giving him more AB's than anyone else. Grrrrrrr.  Makes zero sense.   With this collection of spares if I was trying to win a game tomorrow I would go like this:

Tucker/Alvarez/Chas/Bregman/Pena/Brantley/Diaz/Meyers/Dubon

Best hitter 2nd. Best OB/steal 1st, Chas up to face a lefty on the 3 batter minimum rule if they bring in Tucker, 3rd best hitter cleanup, after that in descending order of quality as a hitter. That's how I have them ranked every day. Brantley plays 1b. Meyers CF, Chas Left, Yordan DH.

What are the chances they don't use a player making $19.5 million a year?

#5226
6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

What are the chances they don't use a player making $19.5 million a year?


he has a longer leash than Hensley 

#5228
18 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


Doesn’t dubon lead the team in hits and avg ? 

He’s a below average hitter for his career and this year. Who cares about batting average if you don’t get on base, steal or slug? 

#5229

Ugh,

dubon up there swinging away 

 

 

That place is empty. So much for ohtani packing the stands 

Edited by tx 3 putt

#5230
29 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

I hope you guys realize there's a very good chance that Chandler Rome is being a dickhead again and not taking Dusty at his word that it's just for rest and he's very close to playing.

We all had similar freakouts about Yordan, remember?

The tweet McTaggart wrote is significantly different in tone than the alarmist one Rome tweeted above.

I know which one of these guys I trust and which one I don't.

I'm just sayin is all. 

Nah, the Astros should prepare with the thought that Brantley isn't playing this year.

#5232
27 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


Doesn’t dubon lead the team in hits and avg ? 

He's also 2nd in the league in GIDPs on pace for 40.

#5236
5 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Nah, the Astros should prepare with the thought that Brantley isn't playing this year.

Yet he just played a number of games in AAA?

#5239
Just now, Gourmand said:

Yet he just played a number of games in AAA?

and after that they have to shut him down for an unspecified amount of time.

#5241
Just now, Scraps said:

More criminal than the fact Dana Brown continues to do nothing about it?

What do expect a GM to do that didn't hire the manager? I pretty sure Brown understands that he's currently lower in the pecking order than Dusty Baker right now.

#5242
What do expect a GM to do that didn't hire the manager? I pretty sure Brown understands that he's currently lower in the pecking order than Dusty Baker right now.
His job
#5243
1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

and after that they have to shut him down for an unspecified amount of time.

shut him down???

Dusty just told you he's very close to playing. Why are you letting dipshits like Chandler Rome pull on your leash?

#5244
Just now, Gourmand said:

shut him down???

Dusty just told you he's very close to playing. Why are you letting dipshits like Chandler Rome pull on your leash?

Because I don't believe a word that Dusty Baker says. He's always saying misleading things, as do the Astros. It's really quite annoying. If Brantley was ready to go, he'd be playing, and not shut down from swinging.

#5245
2 minutes ago, Scraps said:
2 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:
What do expect a GM to do that didn't hire the manager? I pretty sure Brown understands that he's currently lower in the pecking order than Dusty Baker right now.

His job

Which is what? Force Baker to bench a guy that the owner personally signed in the off-season?

#5246

@HtownHorn Read Rome's tweets and then read McTaggart's and tell me if you think one of those two guys is injecting a lot of his own opinion to get engagement on twitter.

#5248
4 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

@HtownHorn Read Rome's tweets and then read McTaggart's and tell me if you think one of those two guys is injecting a lot of his own opinion to get engagement on twitter.

Everything he tweeted he attributed to things Dusty Baker said. Are you saying Dusty Baker didn't say that Brantley had stopped swinging the bat, and Rome just made it up. Dusty saying Brantley is close is bullshit things Dusty has said in the past, thinking it gives the Astros a competitive advantage. Even though, the Astros would have to make a move to put Brantley on the active roster. Based on the evidence we have from what Dusty has said a player coming off shoulder surgery that plays some games, and immediately has to stop swinging the bat doesn't sound like a guy that is close to coming back to the lineup.

The fact that Baker is attributed to saying, "It's not a setback leads me to believe it was a setback."

Edited by HtownHorn

#5250
7 minutes ago, Scraps said:
8 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:
What do expect a GM to do that didn't hire the manager? I pretty sure Brown understands that he's currently lower in the pecking order than Dusty Baker right now.

His job

Yeah, I'd like to know what you think Dana Brown should do.

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