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59 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I think health is so important. It’s been ignored as this Astros team has been ~90 win team the last couple years just how snakebit we have been from a health perspective. Fuck gamblers fallacy- we gonna be healthy now because we haven’t been the last two years. Science! 

Have we been snakebit any worse than an average team?

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41 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

I’m going to try to apply this logic with my insurance company - “sure my wife rear-ended someone each of the last two years, so you should drop my 2025 rates because because there’s no way it’ll happen again.”

Exactly. 

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7 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Have we been snakebit any worse than an average team?

Javier, Garcia, LMJ, Urquidy, France, JV all missed basically the majority of at least one year of not 2 in the last 2 years. I would say having 6 of the top 10 guys on your organization chart as of 2023 have season/career ending injuries go down is much worse than average injury luck but maybe not. 
it’s worse than we’ve ever had happen in a 2 year period that I’ve been following the Astros for, I think. 

1 minute ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Javier, Garcia, LMJ, Urquidy, France, JV all missed basically the majority of at least one year of not 2 in the last 2 years. I would say having 6 of the top 10 guys on your organization chart as of 2023 have season/career ending injuries go down is much worse than average injury luck but maybe not. 
it’s worse than we’ve ever had happen in a 2 year period that I’ve been following the Astros for, I think. 

That’s fair.

i believe the dodgers could say the same on arms . 
but maybe the two of us are in our own class

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20 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

That’s fair.

i believe the dodgers could say the same on arms . 
but maybe the two of us are in our own class

They for sure are.  I’d argue harder hit than us even. Nobody pays attention because both teams chug along and make the playoffs. We aren’t uniquely hard hit but way worse than average is suspect. 

21 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Javier, Garcia, LMJ, Urquidy, France, JV all missed basically the majority of at least one year of not 2 in the last 2 years. I would say having 6 of the top 10 guys on your organization chart as of 2023 have season/career ending injuries go down is much worse than average injury luck but maybe not. 
it’s worse than we’ve ever had happen in a 2 year period that I’ve been following the Astros for, I think. 

What if I told you that that injuries to (1) a guy who has thrown more than 128 innings exactly once in his 10-year career and (2) a guy north of 40 years old should have been considered neither surprising nor particularly “unlucky”?

4 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

What if I told you that that injuries to (1) a guy who has thrown more than 128 innings exactly once in his 10-year career and (2) a guy north of 40 years old should have been considered neither surprising nor particularly “unlucky”?

You seem like a real good time. It doesn’t change the fact that they still were injured and would be top of the rotation if they were healthy. Verlander also pitched 175 and 162 innings the previous two years

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7 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

What if I told you that that injuries to (1) a guy who has thrown more than 128 innings exactly once in his 10-year career and (2) a guy north of 40 years old should have been considered neither surprising nor particularly “unlucky”?

I don’t consider the LmJ injury unlucky to your point. JV could go either way as absent TJ which he was fully and CY young caliber recovered from he’d always been a workhorse. Call it 4.5 out of 6 that wouldn’t be considered to be expected. 

It's spring, and I expect 250 innings from McCullers, but only because he is starting the season too late to reach 300.

 

You may say he has thrown only 718 in 10 yrs/7 seasons.

Shut up.  Spring!

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I get we're just a week into spring training games, but hitting has been anemic so far. 

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I get we're just a week into spring training games, but hitting has been anemic so far. 

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I can't believe you can bet on spring training games.

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he needs to be out in RF on opening day

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Cam.  Triple

With bases loaded. 

I have seen enough.  Put him on opening day roster 

21 minutes ago, Scraps said:

With bases loaded. 

I have seen enough.  Put him on opening day roster 

 

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

cam smith is him

he needs to be out in RF on opening day

He’s played exclusively 3rd base in his college and brief minor league career except for 3 games in LF in the Cape Cod league. 

4 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

He’s played exclusively 3rd base in his college and brief minor league career except for 3 games in LF in the Cape Cod league. 

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On 3/1/2025 at 9:52 AM, UTexasFight said:

Have we been snakebit any worse than an average team?

With the focus on shorter max effort outings, it should be assumed that all pitchers are TJs waiting to happen.  We may have had an abnormal number but I'm not so sure it's that egregious.  It feels like our guys are having more "setbacks" and not recovering as quickly as the norm but I haven't tried to find any data.  That may point to our medical staff being subpar.

Yordan's glass knees at such a young age make me sad and will likely keep him from being an all-time great.  We should expect him to miss some time every year.

Tucker's non-fractured shin last year was a freak thing combined with typical Astros lying about severity/timeline.

I wouldn't say we've been snake bit necessarily.  Older guys also tend to get hurt more.

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On 3/1/2025 at 1:45 PM, UTexasFight said:

I’m liking Logan VanWey

 

i also really like his story… being found playing independent ball in Kalispell, Montana 

He’s a long Wey from home

Blubaugh is going to leave us high and dry, just a big ol tease. He is not going to put out, looking for more of a sure thing. 

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21 hours ago, WBT said:

With the focus on shorter max effort outings, it should be assumed that all pitchers are TJs waiting to happen.  We may have had an abnormal number but I'm not so sure it's that egregious.  It feels like our guys are having more "setbacks" and not recovering as quickly as the norm but I haven't tried to find any data.  That may point to our medical staff being subpar.

Yordan's glass knees at such a young age make me sad and will likely keep him from being an all-time great.  We should expect him to miss some time every year.

Tucker's non-fractured shin last year was a freak thing combined with typical Astros lying about severity/timeline.

I wouldn't say we've been snake bit necessarily.  Older guys also tend to get hurt more.

Plus everyone is essentially working on an extra season beyond whatever their service time is based on the number of playoff games over the past decade.

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