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#5351
Just now, Gut Wagon said:

Our guys were manly on the mound. Exactly what we needed tonight.


we needed a #1 tonight and we got it

 

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#5353

Good for Jake, always liked him

Source: The White Sox are calling up outfielder Jake Marisnick from Triple-A Charlotte.

 

#5354

Great news

Mauricio Dubón said his injury is nothing serious and he won't got in the IL. He said it just grabbed him a bit and he didn't want to not be able to play 100 percent at 2B with Valdez on the mound.

 

#5355

Soon boys, soon ……

Jose Altuve #Astros taking live BP on Tuesday afternoon at Constellation Field in Sugar Land. We were there for another story. While setting up, looked out at the field from press box & saw Jose with a bat. This is another step in his recovery from a broken thumb. @khou11

 

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#5356
3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Soon boys, soon ……

Jose Altuve #Astros taking live BP on Tuesday afternoon at Constellation Field in Sugar Land. We were there for another story. While setting up, looked out at the field from press box & saw Jose with a bat. This is another step in his recovery from a broken thumb. @khou11

 

That's incredible!

 

 

 

I mean, he took two pitches.

#5357
11 hours ago, UTPhil2006 said:
Ohtani's first five starts: 28 IP, 2 runs, 8 hits, 0 HROhtani's last two starts: 11 IP, 9 runs, 8 hits, 4 HRs

And then add today 

But they said He is the greatest player we will ever see.

#5358
10 hours ago, uoftorange said:

I had to go look, because I remembered Abreu actually being exactly what we would want him to be in Spring Training.  And yep, he was really good.  I just don't get it.  It's not like he's missing 99 MPH fastballs, he's getting a steady diet of 93-95 and just can't hit it.  Not even good fastballs a lot of the time

 

Yuli was killing it in Spring Training last year also. 

#5360
On 5/9/2023 at 8:51 AM, Chuckie Finster said:

A bit of an unrelated point, but it's absolutely wild how terrible almost every ex-Astro is doing this season.

Aledmys Diaz: -1.0 WAR

Trey Mancini: -0.7

Tony Kemp: -0.5

George Springer: -0.5 

Yuli Gurriel: 0.0

Christian Vazquez: 0.1 

Carlos Correa: 0.2 

This got me curious so I looked at all (most?) of the names that were tied to us in the offseason:

Willson Contreras - 5 years/$87.5m - .266/.343/.395 WAR, 0.5 WAR

Brandon Nimmo - 8 years/$162m - .300/.400/.446, 1.4 WAR

Michael Conforto - 2 years/$36m - .168/.300/.297, -0.5 WAR

Andrew Benintendi - 5 years/$75m - .262/.314/.315, 0.0 WAR

Josh Bell - 2 years/$33m - 2 years/$40m - .222/.331/.365, 0.0 WAR

Anthony Rizzo - 2 years/$40m - .296, .385, .467, 1.2 WAR

Christian Vazquez - 3 years/$30m - .225/.303/.263, 0.0 WAR

Tucker Barnhart - 2 years/$6.5m - .182/.245/.205, -0.3 WAR

Yuli Gurriel - 1 year/$1.25m - .256/.295/.402, -0.1 WAR

Daulton Varsho - .240/.320/.411,  1.0 WAR (meanwhile the pieces Toronto gave up to get him, Lourdes Gurriel Jr and Gabriel Moreno, each have 0.9 WAR) 

Justin Verlander - 2 yrs/$87.7m - 5 IP, 0-1, 3.60 ERA, 0.1 WAR (immediately put on injured list, lost his only start of season)

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Conclusion, that's a whole lot of suck.  The only dudes who unquestionably would have made us better to this point are Rizzo and Nimmo, and I'm not sure there's any way we would have been able to pry either of them from NY given the offers they received.  (And, while Nimmo would have been an upgrade in 2023, that contract has a chance to get real ugly by the end.)  And sure, we would also prefer Bell's numbers to what Abreu has been putting up, but we would still be bitching at the signing had we gone that route.  Also, all those weird rumors about how we didn't want to use Contreras at Catcher seem to be pretty prescient given the recent developments in St. Louis.

While our three big contracts (Montero, Abreu, Brantley) are looking like shit so far, that seems to be a theme for all the players on the market this past year.  Just a complete dud of an offseason.  (And this is not meant to be a defense of the front office, just a statement about the players who were available.)

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#5362
Dana Brown The Decision To Slow Down Brantley, Is There Reason For Concern? https://t.co/k3A6obplz1


Slowing him down, not going to rush him back. Announcement this afternoon 

#5364
4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

They seem to be OK with being a .500 team for the first quarter of the season. I wonder how long that lasts.


he said - stay .500 or better until we’re 100%, then make a run 

#5366
Michael Brantley is not with the team today in Anaheim. He was here for the first two games. Dusty Baker meets with the media here in 45 minutes and hopefully we’ll have an update.

 

#5367
2 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

This got me curious so I looked at all (most?) of the names that were tied to us in the offseason:

Willson Contreras - 5 years/$87.5m - .266/.343/.395 WAR, 0.5 WAR

Brandon Nimmo - 8 years/$162m - .300/.400/.446, 1.4 WAR

Michael Conforto - 2 years/$36m - .168/.300/.297, -0.5 WAR

Andrew Benintendi - 5 years/$75m - .262/.314/.315, 0.0 WAR

Josh Bell - 2 years/$33m - 2 years/$40m - .222/.331/.365, 0.0 WAR

Anthony Rizzo - 2 years/$40m - .296, .385, .467, 1.2 WAR

Christian Vazquez - 3 years/$30m - .225/.303/.263, 0.0 WAR

Tucker Barnhart - 2 years/$6.5m - .182/.245/.205, -0.3 WAR

Yuli Gurriel - 1 year/$1.25m - .256/.295/.402, -0.1 WAR

Daulton Varsho - .240/.320/.411,  1.0 WAR (meanwhile the pieces Toronto gave up to get him, Lourdes Gurriel Jr and Gabriel Moreno, each have 0.9 WAR) 

Justin Verlander - 2 yrs/$87.7m - 5 IP, 0-1, 3.60 ERA, 0.1 WAR (immediately put on injured list, lost his only start of season)

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Conclusion, that's a whole lot of suck.  The only dudes who unquestionably would have made us better to this point are Rizzo and Nimmo, and I'm not sure there's any way we would have been able to pry either of them from NY given the offers they received.  (And, while Nimmo would have been an upgrade in 2023, that contract has a chance to get real ugly by the end.)  And sure, we would also prefer Bell's numbers to what Abreu has been putting up, but we would still be bitching at the signing had we gone that route.  Also, all those weird rumors about how we didn't want to use Contreras at Catcher seem to be pretty prescient given the recent developments in St. Louis.

While our three big contracts (Montero, Abreu, Brantley) are looking like shit so far, that seems to be a theme for all the players on the market this past year.  Just a complete dud of an offseason.  (And this is not meant to be a defense of the front office, just a statement about the players who were available.)

Really good work. 
We spent 44M and left 20 or 25m unspent- so that would have been 70M to spend more or less. I wanted to do the following:

abreu- 20m

contreras- 17m

Nimmo- 20M Or trade for Kris Bryant at 20M 

 

Let Montero, Brantley, Aledmis Diaz, Yuli, Maldy, Maton and Dubon go  

I’m a better GM than Bagwell.  It still would have been an off-season of suck.

Holy shit almost all the answers were wrong  damn.  

 

#5368
15 minutes ago, rvm96 said:
Michael Brantley is not with the team today in Anaheim. He was here for the first two games. Dusty Baker meets with the media here in 45 minutes and hopefully we’ll have an update.

 

Chandler looking better than McTaggert  on the face off yesterday. 

#5370

Slowing him down, not going to rush him back. Announcement this afternoon 
I wish they'd tell us the truth. He missed a couple of weeks of spring training for a "family matter" or some such. I hope he's not hooked on meth or something.
#5371

There's no getting around it being bad news that Brantley stopped swinging a bat.  He was playing for a week or 2 before that so something happened.

#5372
I wish they'd tell us the truth. He missed a couple of weeks of spring training for a "family matter" or some such. I hope he's not hooked on meth or something.
Yes a meth drug test is even better rumor than just steroid drug test so I like that as well
#5374
The Astros sent Michael Brantley back for further testing. He is “more sore than usual because he played a lot” on his minor league rehab assignment, Dusty Baker said.

 

#5375
1 minute ago, UTPhil2006 said:
The Astros sent Michael Brantley back for further testing. He is “more sore than usual because he played a lot” on his minor league rehab assignment, Dusty Baker said.

 

Great .

so even when he’s “back”, back will mean playing once very week

#5376
Chas McCormick is out of the lineup with a sore back, Dusty Baker said. Baker said he “overdid it” on his minor league rehab assignment and also wondered whether Michael Brantley did something similar.

The fuck are we doing to them in the minors 

#5379
1 hour ago, Scraps said:

Yes a meth drug test is even better rumor than just steroid drug test so I like that as well

Does a positive meth test void his contract and give us some flexibility to sign another shitty player?

#5380
44 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:
The Astros sent Michael Brantley back for further testing. He is “more sore than usual because he played a lot” on his minor league rehab assignment, Dusty Baker said.

 

Lol.  They can't come up with something better than that??

#5383
Small note: it represents a generic Astros prospect, which is why his face is hardly seen.

Brian has hung out with Chandler too much.

 

#5384

Somebody must have taken the lineup card away from Dusty because there is two lefties in a row

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#5386

Maldanado already has a passed ball for the game.  Why can't he catch all of the sudden?

Good thing Javier is absolutely filthy so far today. 3 up, 3 Ks

 

#5388

Surly thread would have had dubon, brantley and chas running the stands this am, while using the PA system to yell at them to quit being pussies 

 

#5389
9 minutes ago, dr99 said:

Somebody must have taken the lineup card away from Dusty because there is two lefties in a row


Very limited bench today 

#5390

 

That's just fundamentally poor roster construction.

Yeah, Chandler is definitely trying to become the next Drellich.

#5391

I'm pretty much done with Maldy as a catcher.  I was done with him being in the lineup last year.  But he just can't catch, and he gets these innings where the sequencing is fucked

#5393
2 minutes ago, uoftorange said:

I'm pretty much done with Maldy as a catcher.  I was done with him being in the lineup last year.  But he just can't catch, and he gets these innings where the sequencing is fucked


hes hitting .250 in may 

#5394
7 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

 

That's just fundamentally poor roster construction.

 

Are You Stupid Antoine Dodson GIF

#5396
24 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Surly thread would have had dubon, brantley and chas running the stands this am, while using the PA system to yell at them to quit being pussies 

 

Yet snowflakes don't allow it

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