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  1. Hank Chinaski
    I wrote this 3 months ago and you told me I am a miserable person. Which you may not be wrong about. But still.
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    I’d exclude Brown from this right now. I just can’t fathom a GM, whose job it is to build and maintain a roster, simply being cool with the manager playing crappy players over good players most of the time. Which makes me think that Crane has made it clear that it’s all Dusty’s call. There is speculation that this is what got Click fired in the first place. It sure looks like it’s coming from Crane, who, like I said yesterday, seems to now prioritize Dusty’s ego over winning. The problem with Crane being the crux of the issue is obvious and is the worst case scenario: the silver lining of this shitshow of a season should be that bad decisions (which lead to commensurately bad outcomes) bring consequences of necessary change. But when the owner is the one making the bad decisions…
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    Agree, in the sense that it doesn’t make me angry anymore. But I still find it astounding that in 2023, when the information we have access to about every aspect of every player’s performance and abilities is so abundant and informative and foundational to how every single club operates, this is allowed to happen. Just fascinating.
  5. Hank Chinaski
    Yainer Diaz is 30% better than league average as a hitter and grades out well defensively. Martin Maldonado is 33% worse than league average as a hitter and grades out poorly defensively. We choose to start MM almost every day instead of YD. The Astros organization prioritizes Dusty Baker’s ego over winning.
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    I think he’s got a good shot, but I’m not sure it’s probable at this point. 158 per for 6 years is one thing; doing that at ages 34-39 is another. “What he did in 2022” - sure, but 2022 was an MVP-caliber season. It may not be so easy to simply replicate that annually through his mid- to late-30s. If he stays healthy, sure, I’d expect him to get there. But that’s the problem with age - staying healthy gets tougher and tougher. His evolution as a hitter over his career is kind of fascinating; his approach now is really different than it was early in his career. His walks are up, his power is way up. It makes him a more valuable offensive player but doesn’t necessarily make him more likely to compile hits.
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    And he was this good last year too. He’s kept this up for a season and a half now, at ages 32-33.
  9. Hank Chinaski
    I don’t think there is really any reason to believe he’s a worse hitter as a DH than as a catcher. But yeah, the commitment to refusing to maximize the lineup is astounding.
  10. Hank Chinaski
    What this presupposes is…logic and rational thought play a role in our day-to-day lineup construction…
  11. Hank Chinaski
    Unfortunately, as evidenced by the voluminous content in this thread, it was only a matter of time.
  12. Hank Chinaski
    I stopped getting worked up a while back. It isn’t remotely surprising anymore that our lineups will be silly. I’m more at the acceptance stage now - accepting that the Astros aren’t really trying to win this year. I’m not sure why they aren’t, but that’s the only logical conclusion one can reach.
  13. Hank Chinaski
    Catchers who hit like he does are dime a dozen.
  14. Hank Chinaski
    Crane deciding to side with Dusty fucking Baker over 2 Click and Brown is something. Putting his own ego over the good of the team. Cool. That’s leadership.
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    This is a team with a manager who stubbornly refuses to maximize his team’s chances of winning. Think about that. It’s kind of the antithesis of the job, no? Dusty has probably cost the team 5 wins this year just based on his playing time allocation. That’s a guess, but don’t worry, @Wulaw Horn and I are going to do the math on it in a couple weeks and give you a more precise number. It may be more than 5. It’s almost like those 5 games matter.
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    This has looked like a 90-ish win team all year. It still does. It’s probably closer to a 95-ish win team if the manager plays his best players. But he doesn’t, and that costs the team wins. Those wins were always likely to be the difference between winning the division and missing the playoffs entirely. And here we are. The pitching regression was always coming; water finds its level.
  18. Hank Chinaski
    Well we don’t play our best players, so…
  19. Hank Chinaski
    Texas A&M and Texas haven’t played each other in over a decade a generation. lol
  20. Hank Chinaski
    When we have to play in the first round or miss the playoffs entirely, remember how frequently the manager refused to play his best players.
  21. Hank Chinaski
    Andre Ware’s incessant, raging hard-on for Texas seems unhealthy.
  22. Hank Chinaski
    This. Buck stops with Crane. Dusty’s bullshit is getting out of hand. He publicly states that he’d rather have the Mariners’ CF than his own guy (who happens to be outperforming the Mariners’ CF). He’s talking about his “big boys” or whatever. He sounds deranged. It’s all bullshit drama that he’s creating by stubbornly refusing to play his best players and then getting defensive when he’s rightly called out for it. And Crane could end it by telling him to cut the shit, play the right players, and shut the fuck up about Chas.
  23. Hank Chinaski
    I live in ABQ. They’re atrocious. Last year they played 11 FBS teams. They went 1-10 and scored 10.5 points per game. Only one of those teams was P5 (LSU). They lost 38-0. They were also shut out by Colorado St and scored 3 against Air Force. Oh, and their OC was…Derek Warehime. (Nice hire, Tom.)
  24. Hank Chinaski
    I’d maybe flip Bregman and Tucker but that’s splitting hairs. This is the way.
  25. Hank Chinaski
    Why is Chas being too fat an issue if he is 50% better than league average and still good defensively? This is dumb.

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