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BornOrange

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  1. Reddick's career year was 2017. He had an OPS of .847 while his OPS this year is .786 Marisnek has an OPS of .782 this year. Altuve is at .784 Miles Straw is at .836
  2. Kinda ironic after last night's game that I'm arguing for less playing time for Reddick and Guriel next year, maybe even this year once we get everyone healthy.
  3. Which is why my first options would be to train Alvarez, Tucker, or Brantley at first base. I don't know if two of those three can play in the outfield at the same time. If Brantley and/or Tucker can play CF or RF effectively, that would be great. Even then, they may be looking to reduce Reddick's role next year. His contract is going to keep him on the team, but his power numbers are low for a corner outfielder. After DH and 1B, the next spot in the lineup that needs an offensive upgrade is RF.
  4. No, this is the summer of George
  5. Why not? He's played there 3 times this year, even if only for a total of 3.2 innings
  6. Gurriel and Diaz as utility players. I want Alvarez and Tucker (if he can hit MLB pitching) to play as much as possible. Maybe Tucker can play right, but it seems both of them may be best in left field. Brantley needs to stay in the lineup, so we have 3 guys for LF and DH. One of the three can go to first, or maybe go to right and have Reddick play first.
  7. In the offseason, I would like to see if someone gets moved to first. Tucker, Alvarez, Brantley, or Reddick should be playing first next year.
  8. I noticed Dennis Quaid's name in the trailer.
  9. His momma named him Yordan, I'm gonna call him Yordan.
  10. Dierker was pretty good in the booth as well.
  11. I want to see Foster show better coverage skills before feeling comfortable with him at nickel. He is the perfect destructive back with his abilities against the run and blitzing, but in this conference to be successful at nickel he has to be better than he was last year covering receivers.
  12. Yuli's versatility also adds to his value. Not too many first basemen can also play 3B or even 2B in a pinch. That said, I look forward to a time when the Astros get above average production from 1B and DH.
  13. Starting pitchers normally throw on their second or third off day in between starts. I wonder if it is possible for Alvarez to get some batting practice from Verlander and Cole?
  14. I was thinking the same thing earlier this week when Berkman was doing one of the games. Biggio would do play by play because he would take the whole thing seriously and his Type A personality would kick in. Berkman would be the goofy color commentator with lots of stories. Bagwell would sit back and rag on both of them the whole time.
  15. If he's really the guy you want, give the Patriots a second or third round draft pick for him.
  16. Never underestimate the power of "Gotta beat the traffic!"
  17. Question about yesterday's game. Since the runner never touched Mayfield, is that why the second out wasn't called?
  18. Willie "Mays" Hayes wasn't just a fictional movie character, but a stereotype. Too many players with a ton of speed prefer to hit the ball in the air rather than utilize their speed to its fullest advantage. Not all of those players had the "runs like Mays, but hits like shit" problem, but some of them did. The passage of time and my faulty memory prevent me from naming names. I hope Straw doesn't fall into that category, but a quote from this week concerns me. Someone asked postgame why he doesn't bunt more. His response was something like "People have always been telling me I should work on bunting more. I don't know why but I just haven't worked on it much." I hope I'm wrong, but that immediately got me to wondering about how coachable he is. Anyone who sees his speed automatically assumes he should take advantage of it by bunting to get on base. I would imagine that every manager from little league, high school, college, and each level of the minors saw that potential....and yet Straw says he hasn't worked much on bunting. Yes, I know bunting isn't as prevalent as it used to be and isn't worked on as much. And yes, I know I am probably reading way too much into one postgame quote.
  19. Another Dickerson tweet: Dickerson's status as a Texan has to be reviewed.
  20. Pedro dies.
  21. 7. Seattle has 3 times as many wins as we do. There's no coming back from that.
  22. This right here. I don't understand all the optimism. Bregman is 0 for the season. We should have traded him before before we got anchored to that huge contract. Springer is only hitting .200. That'll kill you in the lead-off spot. Correa has been out for the entire season. We don't have our Cy Young winner (Keuchel). Who cares about JV? I prefer winners over runner ups (sic.....I hate runners up even more) Our bullpen is going to be overused if we keep throwing Pressly and Osuna every single game. Diaz is a disaster. He is batting .000 while Marwin G. single-handedly has the Twins in first place. We're fucking doomed.
  23. Take It Back!
  24. This will be the third time. The first two times both happened in 1979. In the AL, Ron Guidry (Yankees) versus Mike Caldwell (Brewers). In the NL, Gaylord Perry (Padres) versus Burt Hooten (Dodgers). https://www.mlb.com/news/cy-young-winner-runner-up-facing-in-opener
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