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#22652
6 minutes ago, WBT said:

Well we've passed the rangers.  Told y'all we would.

i, for one, have enjoyed victory-lap wednesday.  see everyone back here next week.

#22654
1 minute ago, CycleTex87 said:

Rangers thread over there is melting down. You hate to see it, but more than that, you love to see it. 

Last page is a great read. 

Poor fellas.

#22656

What we need is the one thing the Astros have yet to accomplish this season that they've accomplished every season since 2017.....a double-digit win streak. 

#22659
11 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

What we need is the one thing the Astros have yet to accomplish this season that they've accomplished every season since 2017.....a double-digit win streak. 

We had an eight game win streak in May which was the max this season.

#22660
2 minutes ago, Harrison Stafford said:

We had an eight game win streak in May which was the max this season.

and gained like one game on Arlington in that stretch

 

#22662
33 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Fuck’em, we need to steam roll the Yankees 

If we were playing then in NYC, the we would for sure.  Not quite so confident at MMP. 

#22666
1 hour ago, Gut Wagon said:

Didn't the Rangers lose another game in that same way recently? 

They walked in a walkoff run in extras earlier this week I believe.

#22668
2 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

The Rangers in July were the 5-1 aggy that were always gonna finish 7-5.

Least surprising collapse in history.

shhhhhh

do not tempt the bbgs.

there's a lot of baseball left to be played.

#22671
Rangers thread over there is melting down. You hate to see it, but more than that, you love to see it. 
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#22673
7 hours ago, dr99 said:

More proof that Dusty is an idiot

Well, in defense of the Astros pitching coaching squad, they tend to get things figured out for pitchers. I'd have been OK taking a run at 105, too. 

Edited by Slacks
Stupid swyping doesn't like words

#22674

The Yankees have brought up a lot of their minor league prospects. You’ll see some AAA lineups from them on which there are 4 or 5 players with considerably less than a year of MLB experience. And we miss Cole. No excuse to not roll over them. 

Edited by TonyTexas

#22675
What a day to be an astros fan. After a pretty lousy first 5 months of the season with all the injuries and poor performances and terrible lineups we hit the bell lap on this marathon in tied for first place. And we still have 3 games with Seattle and Texas that will help us control our own destiny, and the Astros schedule is easier than anyone else’s this month. 
 
Win the division in September and that gets you the bye and puts everything about the season into a box of “doesn’t matter”
 
Goals for September:
Clinch playoffs 
Clinch division
Figure out if Javier is rosterable for post season
Sort out 3rd and 4th starter
Stay healthy
Just once play this lineup so all of Houston can orgasmically explode: Altuve/Bregman:Yordan/Tucker/Chas/Diaz/Brantley/Abreu/Peña. 
It doesn’t have to be in that order (Bregman and Alvarez should be flip flopped and then it would be perfect) but just play those 9 guys together 
Diaz needs to catch JV and Framber a couple times so they can see that they can pitch to him before the playoffs start. You don’t want to lose in the playoffs sporting any thing but your best lineup- the nerd cave knows that and has TONS of input in the playoff lineup, so you might as well get Diaz a couple games behind the plate now. 
#22676

What's the reasoning for putting Yordan at #2 in the lineup?  Wouldn't you want a faster guy like Bregman ahead of him to get on base so Yordan can knock him home on a hit? 

#22678
2 minutes ago, kevwun said:

The holy grail of analytics is hitting your best hitter 2nd.  It's why the Yankees do it with Judge.

Not just then- angels with trout, then Ohtani. It’s just math. The 3rd place hitter comes up with none on and 2 out a disproportionate amount of time. 

#22680

Their issues have nothing to do with analytics though.  The Yankees have too many roster holes because they have a gazillion dollars tied up in 3 players.  The Angels are just a fucking mess from top to bottom. 

#22681
If anyone knows how to build a World Series run, it's the defending champion @astros 🔨#MLBCentral | @markdero7

 

#22682

What's hilarious is Maldonado is one of the worst framing catchers in baseball if not the worst. There is literally nothing he does at a below average level on the baseball field anymore. It's all abysmal or worse.

#22683
2 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

What's hilarious is Maldonado is one of the worst framing catchers in baseball if not the worst. There is literally nothing he does at a below average level on the baseball field anymore. It's all abysmal or worse.

i knew that part would get y'alls attention, especially @Wulaw Horn

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#22684
1 hour ago, kevwun said:

The holy grail of analytics is hitting your best hitter 2nd.  It's why the Yankees do it with Judge.

And it’s done wonders for them

#22685

It’s not just them- I literally picked the best 3 hitters of the last 10 years and showed they all hit 2nd. 
Cleveland hits Ramirez 2nd 

Baltimore hits Santander 2nd (probably best hitter- highest ops anyway)

Pads hit Soto second

cards hit goldy, rays araozarena, rangers Seager, dodgers Freddy freeman  then there are like 6 or 8 teams I can’t identify a best hitter  so probably more teams than not hit their best guy second  if not more teams then not than it’s at about parity with any other spot  

it’s not some sort of weird one off. 
id also be fine with Altuve/Tucker/Bregman/Alvarez or Tucker/Altuve/Bregman/Alvarez  

hell- any order you want to hit those guys in is fine with me as long as those are the 9 you play 

 

#22686
25 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

What's hilarious is Maldonado is one of the worst framing catchers in baseball if not the worst. There is literally nothing he does at a below average level on the baseball field anymore. It's all abysmal or worse.

Hit against LHP. He’s probably in the top half of catchers at doing that. I’d also say hit HR’s and draw walks. He’s also probably in the top half of catchers at doing that too. Everything else is excrement. 

#22687
1 hour ago, CycleTex87 said:

I don't know.  That may be what the analytics say, but Yankees and Angels, two also-rans.

Analytics is an important tool, but you have to factor in everything 

Edited by tx 3 putt

#22688
Just now, tx 3 putt said:

Analytics isn’t always right 

“Analytics” in this case is about describing probabilities.

“it isn’t always right” doesn’t really mean anything at all. The most elite hitters in baseball make outs 60% of the time. But the odds of scoring more runs are enhanced by giving your best hitters - those with the best odds of not making an out/hitting the ball hard - more opportunities in situations that are more conducive to scoring. It’s really not that complicated.

Increasing your odds of scoring increases your odds of winning. Even increasing the odds by what may seem like tiny amounts makes actual differences over a large enough sample. (Like the scheme in Office Space where they take fractions of pennies off of every transaction.)

So yeah, you can agree with Jeff Bagwell when he makes fun of of exit velo - because anecdotally someone hits the ball hard and it’s an out - but to do so obviously misses the entire point, which is that the harder a guy consistently hits the ball, the better he is likely to produce. It doesn’t mean the hardest hit balls always have the best results. It doesn’t seem like it should be necessary to even have to explain that. 

 

 

#22689
3 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

 

So yeah, you can agree with Jeff Bagwell when he makes fun of of exit velo - because anecdotally someone hits the ball hard and it’s an out - but to do so obviously misses the entire point, which is that the harder a guy consistently hits the ball, the better he is likely to produce. It doesn’t mean the hardest hit balls always have the best results. It doesn’t seem like it should be necessary to even have to explain that. 

 

 


the Yankees just fired their hitting coach that was all about analytics and exit velocities. He loooooved exit velocities, but an exit hit / bloop single, will trump any exit velocity. The angels bat ohtani second because that’s all they have 

in the Astros case, we have a couple of top hitters that can hit #2, but bregman is my choice for that #2 spot 

the batting title goes to the highest batting avg, not the highest exit velocity, for a reason 

#22691
56 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Hit against LHP. He’s probably in the top half of catchers at doing that. I’d also say hit HR’s and draw walks. He’s also probably in the top half of catchers at doing that too. Everything else is excrement. 

He sometimes can lay down a decent bunt. 

#22692

The Mariners guaranteed that they’ll be swept by the Mets this weekend . Very reminiscent of the Texans’ letterman jacket debacle. 

🔥✌🏽 @RevRunWisdom

 

#22693
3 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

The Mariners guaranteed that they’ll be swept by the Mets this weekend . Very reminiscent of the Texans’ letterman jacket debacle. 

🔥✌🏽 @RevRunWisdom

 


those jackets were bad ass 

 

that’s good team building / Locker room mojo for Seattle, imo 

Edited by tx 3 putt

#22694
5 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


those jackets were bad ass 

 

that’s good team building / Locker room mojo for Seattle, imo 

Patriots 42 Texans 14 on MNF

#22696

I'm with Putt on this one.  The jackets were bad ass.  A bunch of whiny old fucks, same people that worry about what another man wears, didn't like them.  Unfortunately Brady and the Patriots were just a better team.  That happens.  Doesn't change that the team was working to create an identity and trying to remember old school hard work when you played the game just because it got you some ass and you loved it wasn't the issue.  

#22699

back to the lineup - while i agree you put your best hitter 2nd (and would love to see yordan 2), a scorching-hot bregman there certainly doesn't bother me.  he handles the bat well and knows the zone.  in 2018-19 i might've called him our best hitter, and we've seen signs of that resurgence ever since he's been back in the 2-hole.

once again, put the right guys in the lineup and the order doesn't really matter.  a month ago, when envisioning the astros lineup, i never even considered bregman would be raking, along with possibly having a fresh brantley and a pena that has kinda found it?  not to mention altuve partying like it's 2017.  put those guys in with yordan, tuck, chassy, and yainer and yeah, we'll be just fine.

@ boston was supposed to be our roughest series remaining outside the division ones, and we dismantled them.  we blew g3 home vs boston and g1 @ detroit.  we should be on a 9-1 stretch following an embarrassing home sweep vs seattle.  but we're not and that's fine.  the takeaway is that schedules don't matter and never have with this team.  when we're playing well, the opponent isn't an issue.

i say we go 19-8 and win 96 games.  that should get us where we need to be.

#22700

I like Alvarez and Tucker lower in the lineup because it seems like it just wears the fuck out of pitchers after they have faced Altuve, Bregman, et al.  That kind of pressure pays off in sports.  How many times this season have witnessed the 7-8-9 holders getting ona roll?  Just one guy’s none sabermetric opinion.

And  LOL at ‘all of the other teams do it.’  WGAF?  After the Braves, I don’t really care how those other squads set their lineups.

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