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  1. Hank Chinaski
    Why? It’s meaningless drivel.
  2. Hank Chinaski
    Smart teams would be willing to give up good assets for Chas and Diaz (and obviously Tucker). I know I’m a broken record, but Chas has been 30% better than league average offensively as a good defensive CF, with years of team control. He’s at 1.7 fWAR in 53 games, meaning he’s playing at the level of a 5-win player (all star). Diaz is a catcher who hits the ball really hard. It isn’t difficult to see him as one of the 4-5 best offensive catchers in MLB. He’s also the best defensive catcher on the club. He’s a rookie. Both of those guys should get you really big haul. The Astros shouldn’t move them. Rather, they should move the manager who doesn’t understand their value. (I know you’re not saying we should move anyone necessarily; just saying that we have some valuable trade chips if we wanted to, like these guys, Tucker, Pena, etc. Obviously the best idea is to keep those guys for now.)
  3. Hank Chinaski
    And the next 6 games after today are at COL and OAK. They aren’t selling. I don’t think they should be big buyers either, given that we have no idea when/if the 3 best players on the team are going to be healthy - and if they aren’t, nobody they can acquire is going to make any meaningful difference anyway.
  4. Hank Chinaski
    Siri entered today with a .266 OBP and he strikes out 1/3 of the time. This is exactly who he’s always been - a great defender with power but the Ks and plate discipline issues prevent him from being a really good player.
  5. Hank Chinaski
    Chas is better.
  6. Hank Chinaski
    “Get out of here, grow up, Jesus. Let the adults talk.”
  7. Hank Chinaski
    Why in the holy hell is Bligh Madris on this fucking team and DHing? Can anyone explain or defend this? This guy has a career wRC+ of 39. Fucking 39. He was a below average hitter in AAA this season. This is fucking asinine. Can someone please fucking fire Dusty or take his goddamn bad players away from him? What the fuck is Brown doing? How can you fucking allow this? Dusty is - once again - actively reducing the team’s chances of winning for no reason whatsoever.
  8. Hank Chinaski
    Would not do anything like that for 1 potential postseason with Ohtani. That’s several years of a good starting SS and CF for a single postseason run.
  9. Hank Chinaski
    All these years later, I’m still befuddled by that. I mean, if women romancing each other is wrong, what exactly is right?
  10. Hank Chinaski
    I mean, I don’t understand almost anything about them, and I consider that a really good thing.
  11. Hank Chinaski
    I’ve often thought, while reading these posts obsessing over team recruiting rankings (for which there is no consensus and plenty of subjectivity), “do they realize that recruiting isn’t the actual sport? Like, they understand that actual football games are played, right?” But you’re probably right, they must mistake recruiting wins for affirmation of their bizarre culture, which they crave over all else.
  12. Hank Chinaski
    Dear lord they need new material. Don’t the get bored writing the same tired platitudes over and over, year after year (overrated team and recruits, whiny Texas fans, blah blah blah)? And before anyone says “well it’s because Texas football has been in a rut,” I’ll mention that they were writing the same things in the 00s. It doesn’t matter.
  13. Hank Chinaski
    Counterpoint - by keeping Chas…we ensure that we have an above-average everyday player for the rest of 2023 (our offense needs all hands on deck now). Then we have a great all-around OF with Chas, Gilbert, Tucker when Gilbert is ready next year; Yordan DHs like he should; offense is stronger. Obviously we should move Chas in the right deal; I’m struggling to find starting pitching that is likely to be available (from teams out of contention) that get you similar value to Chas. Obviously the other team could add prospects or whatever, but in the context of 2023 that makes less sense to do for the Astros.
  14. Hank Chinaski
    Also - the guy is trying to make a point about schedule strength using “#1 team” as a proxy, and includes 2 seasons (2019, 2022) in which both a&m and Texas played a common opponent who was #1 in one of the games but not the other. So, his point seems rely on the idea that the exact same team is a better opponent if they are ranked #1 at the time of the game than if they aren’t (e.g., LSU in 2019 was undefeated national champs but not yet ranked first when they played Texas). This is less a “fun fact” than it is a meaningless observation.
  15. Hank Chinaski
    Good, his OBP will tick up and our odds of scoring increases. That means the net effect of his play is positive (I think). And the team is still better when he plays. Nothing else should matter because he’s not a bad guy, just a weirdo, and the team is not adversely affected by his inclusion in the lineup in any way (quite the opposite).
  16. Hank Chinaski
    Imagine thinking that you were screwed out of a playoff spot in a regular season in which you lost a game 52-24 and only beat one team with a winning record.
  17. Hank Chinaski
    They should have interest; he’s an extremely valuable player when you factor in his production, team control and cost. We’re just too dumb to play him every day.
  18. Hank Chinaski
    No. Not when your 2 best hitters are out and there is half a week to play before having several days off. It’s an asinine decision. No other team in baseball would do that unless they had a 10-game division lead. There is no logical rationale for this. There is no defense for this. It is intentionally reducing your team’s chances of winning for no good reason. Period.
  19. Hank Chinaski
    Goddamnit. Fuck Dusty. Chas sitting and Madris in the lineup. He’s such a goddamn clown. 129 wRC+ this season. It doesn’t matter if we acquire a bat if Dusty gets to run the club like a goddamn pony league team.
  20. Hank Chinaski
    It’s like there’s some sort of cosmic force that won’t allow Altuve and Yordan to be healthy at the same time this year. And it fucking sucks.
  21. Hank Chinaski
    Sure, a guy who can play LF/DH would make some sense. But you’d have to get someone who is clearly better than Julks or Meyers for little prospect capital.
  22. Hank Chinaski
    I don’t actually think this is a need, assuming Yordan returns after the ASB. If Dusty plays the best players, you have: 2B Altuve 3B Bregman RF Tucker LF/DH Yordan 1B Abreu CF Chas C/DH Diaz SS Pena C/LF Maldy/Meyers/Julks If Dusty commits to making Chas the everyday CF and Abreu continues what he’s been doing over the last month (121 wRC+ in June), and Diaz is in the lineup as the catcher or DH most days…then this is actually a good lineup. 1-7 should all be above average hitters (with 1-4 being well above-average), and Pena is right at league average. If they want to go get a LF/DH type like Brantley would have been, ok…but it’s not really necessary if he’d just play Chas and Diaz. More pressing may be another starter, given whatever is going on with Javier.
  23. Hank Chinaski
    Over the last calendar year (since 7/1/22), Chas has a better wRC+ (129) than the following CFs: Bryan Reynolds Cedric Mullins Adolis Garcia George Springer Michael Harris These are guys who play every day, make all-star teams, win ROY awards, play on team USA in the WBC, etc. And Chas often sits in favor of Corey Julks, Jake Meyers and Bligh Madris. Is anyone on here willing to defend this?
  24. Hank Chinaski
    My god…he’ll never watch the games because it is “cancer” to him to watch a bunch of kids he doesn’t know that attend his alma mater play football against a bunch of kids he doesn’t know that attend another school? Maybe take it easy, guy? This is psychotic shit. We’ve really (inadvertently) skull-fucked a bunch of these guys.
  25. Hank Chinaski
    Continuing to sit Chas and play Maldy over Diaz almost every day (when Yordan was in)…those are Dusty’s decisions. He actively chooses to play lesser players over Chas very often. He actively chose to play a lesser player at catcher very often and only began regularly using Diaz once there was a need at DH.

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