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I love winning man! I love winning, it's like.... better than losing! 

Baseball is the worst. Also, the best.


And goddamn have we got some filthy starting pitching.

Josh James looking like he could be a surprise, late blooming prospect in Corpus.  Dude has been nearly unhittable in his three appearances this season.

Alright alright alright.  LMJ straight filthy last night.  That was good to see.

Let's go Jose.... time for you to park one in the seats.

Would be nice to take a road series in Seattle.

Had 15 guys reach base last night (9 H, 5 BB, 1 HBP) and only 8 K (4 by Marisnick). That's more like it - though only 2 XBH. 

 

Really refreshing performance from LMJ last night. First time he went 7IP since June 8, 2017.

Probably the best start of his career. 2nd best per "Game Score," but the prior start (rookie year) was only higher because he went CG.

Who's going to the UT game tonight in Sugarland?

12 hours ago, Horny Bull said:

Marisnick is lost

it's not that hard to find Fresno, he just needs to type it into is destination on Waze.

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Jake needs to get back to the farm to find his rake. Or something.

52 minutes ago, MAROON said:

it's not that hard to find Fresno, he just needs to type it into is destination on Waze.

Don't think we can send him to Fresno unless he gets "injured" and goes for rehab starts after his DL stint...

some assorted team pitching stats thru 18 games:

era - 2.62

whip - 1.10

baa - .213

205k / 50bb in 161.2ip

59 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

some assorted team pitching stats thru 18 games:

era - 2.62

whip - 1.10

baa - .213

205k / 50bb in 161.2ip

I'll add that our FIP and xFIP are 3.01 and 2.67 respectively. For context a FIP under 3.2 is excellent and an xFIP under 2.90 is excellent. In short, our pitchers are dominating even with a couple of bad games from LMJ and Dallas in the mix.

The shitty part about our platoon is that all our options aren't great right now - marwin, jake, Fisher, even reddick to a degree. At some point we'll cut the bait on jake and/or Fisher and look to more permanent options. Jake and Fisher are basically the same...defensive replacements with speed. Just depend which side you want them from right or left. 

At least with Davis when he was up he started to make solid contact and hit balls hard, wonder if he's an option in left

12 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

The shitty part about our platoon is that all our options aren't great right now - marwin, jake, Fisher, even reddick to a degree. At some point we'll cut the bait on jake and/or Fisher and look to more permanent options. Jake and Fisher are basically the same...defensive replacements with speed. Just depend which side you want them from right or left. 

At least with Davis when he was up he started to make solid contact and hit balls hard, wonder if he's an option in left

anyone who's hitting is an option at dh.

Interesting article about the tendency of umpires to call balls and strikes in extra innings in a way that will end the game sooner. The article uses Jake's AB against the Rangers on Sunday as an example.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everyone-wants-to-go-home-during-extra-innings-maybe-even-the-umps/

"Altogether, teams that are in the position to win (defined as having a runner on base in a tie game) get up to a 27 percentage point increase in the rate of called balls, while teams that look like they're about to lose (defined as any time the away team is trying to hold on to a lead in the bottom half of an inning after the ninth) see increased strike rates of up to 33 percentage points."

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What sort of info is there to visualize the strike zone and where each pitch is in real time? They occasionally show it on the TV and I think there are webpages. Are there any apps?

6 minutes ago, Pods said:

What sort of info is there to visualize the strike zone and where each pitch is in real time? They occasionally show it on the TV and I think there are webpages. Are there any apps?

I am not sure if there are any apps. I don't generally check Statcast during the games, but they may have something. I follow this account on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstrosUmp

It does a good job of showing where pitches are located and provides a breakdown of how often a pitch in that location is called a ball or strike. But it does not show every pitch.

Here's its tweet for the terrible call during Jake's AB:

 

Edited by Seasick Sailor

Thanks Seasick, I'd seen that one and had something like that in mind. I wonder where they get that data. 

Edited by Pods

Ben probably should have gone with another title. If Brad Pitt and that fat guy star in the movie he’s fucked.


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46 minutes ago, Pods said:

What sort of info is there to visualize the strike zone and where each pitch is in real time? They occasionally show it on the TV and I think there are webpages. Are there any apps?

The MLB At Bat app has location, pitch type, velocity, etc.

2 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

The MLB At Bat app has location, pitch type, velocity, etc.

Thanks Fozzz, will check it out

Hard to be mad at Altuve but he's the king of swinging at the first pitch ball

Altuve makes me weep

Come on son snap out of it!

I love you

Cole are you retarded? Its Dee Gordon, just eat it

Way to bust the ass down the line

Single digit pitchers piss me the fuck off

Seriously, nothing infuriates me more than lack of situational hitting. Terrible at bat there

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