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35 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Drayton is a family friend.  He once told me that they had absolutely no idea how old Eusebio was.  Pre 9-11 no one cared all that much.  

damn that cracks me up. wonder what he's up to these days 

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I'd say the over/under on career MVPs for Yordan Alvarez is about 5.5.

 

Based on his first 4 games, I am conservatively estimating 1600 career home runs. 

mlb.com writeup on the top minor league performance for the Astros on June 15th: 

Astros: Freudis Nova, SS (No. 6) – 4-for-4, 2B, R (Class A Quad Cities)
Signed out of the Dominican Republic for $1.2 million in 2016, Nova is playing full-season ball for the first time in 2019. He raked in the GCL last season, batting .308 with decent pop, and he's doing more of the same with the River Bandits this year. Friday's four-hit effort brought his average up over .300 for the first time all year as the 19-year-old logged his 16th game of the season for Quad Cities.

Fangraphs has Yordan at 0.5 WAR in 4 games played.  Seems a little light.

Fangraphs has Yordan at 0.5 WAR in 4 games played.  Seems a little light.
Hella replacements, B...

My raging yardon don't care about small sample size: this is going to go down as one of Luhnow's career-defining moves, trading Josh Fields for a generational slugger. Bagwell for Larry Andersen 2.0.

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10 hours ago, formermav43 said:

2.8 bWAR. 1.5 fWAR.

He’s definitely on a hot streak, having a great year, and he was a great signing. I’m thrilled with his play.

I’d just slow the roll on the “best catcher ever” stuff. Right now, his projection for the rest of the year has him right in line with 2013-16 Castro, 2017 McCann, and Stassi last year in terms of fWAR. His bat is better than theirs-and I think that skews the perception of his overall game, given the Astros’ history with hitting catchers and the relative offensive strength of the position overall- but they were all better defensively. As stated, his defensive play has actually been better than expected, though-he’s not a real liability there, just not an asset like those guys.

He’s still a fairly awful framer, but his hitting has made up for it somewhat. He was a good bargain bin signing. 

At what point do other teams stop showing up ?

Im guessing mid July ?

10 hours ago, runthebone said:

Based on his first 4 games, I am conservatively estimating 1600 career home runs. 

Please quit being ridiculous, he won’t hit over 1200 

4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Please quit being ridiculous, he won’t hit over 1200 

True but it won't be his fault. Sometimes opposing teams will choose the four pitch walk instead of the home run. 

You forget he'll have Tucker hitting behind him, and Tucker is ending up with 1300 or so.

2 hours ago, Gourmand said:

My raging yardon don't care about small sample size: this is going to go down as one of Luhnow's career-defining moves, trading Josh Fields for a generational slugger. Bagwell for Larry Andersen 2.0.

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The biggest difference though is Anderson didn't also give up back to back HRs to the Astros in the World Series.

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Win by 13 so play the shit squad and win by 8?

Hinch wanted to challenge Alvarez with White hitting behind him ?????

Any word on Jake after he left early last night?

2 minutes ago, WBT said:

Any word on Jake after he left early last night?

Nothing official other than the dreaded “discomfort” in the left knee.

So I’d expect a leg amputation before the weekend is over.

RiP Jake - MLB lettuce HoF’r !

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Jordan Brewer, Astros third round pick, hit a sac fly in the first inning and has a single in the third of his CWS debut. 

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Damn. Very nice.

 

I’ll be there for tues/wed.

 

(The stadium, not your Airbnb.. )

 

Hoping Altuve will be on my same flight out of Austin Tuesday morning... although something tells me he doesn’t fly Frontier

 

Some old man just asked if i was a scout or if I was just here early lolz

How do the Astros not score that inning

Look at Garfield go

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Tyler White double, and Jack Mayfield with an RBI double to score White. What is going on????????

3 minutes ago, rvm96 said:

Tyler White double, and Jack Mayfield with an RBI double to score White. What is going on????????

bizarro world.  shut up and enjoy it.

It's that man again 

Just now, TonyTexas said:

3/4 homers have been absolute bombs.

And the 4th was a great piece of hitting.  

Day ham! Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And I love it! Glad he’s on our team!

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