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Hank Chinaski

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  1. They have to get rid of Maldy after the season. Nobody catches every day. Lee probably catches 40-50 games per year for the next 5/6 years if Diaz sticks. He’s a good defensive catcher with decent power. And he costs almost nothing. Graveman and his 4.85 FIP doesn’t match the value.
  2. Lee for Graveman is a fucking terrible deal for the Astros.
  3. Suffice to say I’d rather see Singleton at DH than Madris.
  4. I remember being giddy - when it seemed possible that we’d move to the PAC with the ags - at the idea of a swarm of aggie hayseeds descending on the Bay Area or Seattle en masse. Doing their midnight yelling thing in LA somewhere. Etcetera and so forth.
  5. Fuck you, Adams heiress. Rot in shit.
  6. Good god…where the conference HQ is located, who gets the first home game, who’s the “real UT”, etc…does anyone actually give a flying fuck about any of the things that these guys obsess over? I can’t imagine caring about any of these things.
  7. Altuve Alvarez Bregman Tucker Abreu Chas Diaz Pena Dubon/Julks/Meyers 5-7 could be in any order.
  8. 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.)
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Chas is better.
  12. “Get out of here, grow up, Jesus. Let the adults talk.”
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. All these years later, I’m still befuddled by that. I mean, if women romancing each other is wrong, what exactly is right?
  16. I mean, I don’t understand almost anything about them, and I consider that a really good thing.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
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