Wulaw Horn

Look man, we’ve got 9 more outs to get with the soft underbelly of the bullpen all that’s available. I don’t love our chances here still.

Jake! maybe a 5th Of. That one doesn’t count though. Reasons.

O’s 3 hits that inning were 88, 89 and 92. Not quite as bad as I thought but combined with shitty launch angle on 2 of them you’d not expect that to be a rally.

Another fucking should have been a double play ball. This game is so fucked.

Yeah. Sucks.

Fucking more soft contact bullshit.

So far. His babip is ridiculously unsustainable. I like him ok but he’s got to get his K% below 30 if he’s going to stick.

Loperfiso strikes out so much not because of his swing and miss but because he watches a metric shit ton of pitches right down the middle.

He got squeezed and 3 of his 6 hits were dinks. Way better than his line and now I assume his career is over the way things have been trending.

Espada is a big dummy.

Jake! I’ve been told he’s maybe good enough to be a 5th OF. We shouldn’t count his hostels only his cold ones. And the glove work doesn’t count. But the arm does. Totally makes sense. Kids pitched really well to have thrown 70 pitches in 3 innings and given up two runs. OT’s of trash contact gone against him.

Personally believe he’s been hurt all year. Hamstrings hang around forever and dog you. It might be that he’s too fat though. Too much banana pudding.

He’s walking on a treadmill. Maybe running. Maybe a light jog. But definitely a treadmill. Hope for on field activities this weekend.

And Whitley. But he’s on a rehab assignment. Which is funny to me because he’s in AAA so who gives a fuck if he comes back and gets rocked in AAA or A ball.

I've got a 3 team division winner parley- Astros, Royals, Orioles- $10 to win $669. I've got an Astros win the World Series and Longhorns win the National Championship in football bet for $20.00 to win $5,040.00. I fully expect to be cashing both tickets.

Sure. Or have some really funky pitch tunneling where they just absolutely can't differentiate between fastball and breaking pitch b/c it comes down the same chute. It was interesting to hear him talk about it. He's read and studied a lot of analytics and didn't watch bull durham where Costner explained strike outs are fascist. No pitch to contact for him. "Bad things happen with contact" or something like that.

He actually says his goal is to strike out every hitter- so that could be some measure of why he appears to have command problems at times. He's trying to spin the ball a ton and he's trying to keep it out of the strike zone and get swing and misses. Very LMJ like in that approach- he did similar.

his stuff is fine- he's striking out 10 per 9 and gets swing and misses. His command is a problem most days. He's always been a slow starter at each new level he's played at and he's been better recently than he was before. I think he can be a MOR guy if he maximizes.

I hate this team.

167 feet travelled with a 59 degree launch angle. Sure it was thrilling.

That would definitely be the idea. If the Astros sell it makes too much sense not to see that happen. Matches up perfectly.

Presley has a 2.4 fip and a 5 era b/c his xba is 220 and in actuality it's 420 against him for the year. Huge post season numbers- veteran presence blah blah blah. Framber should have been the WS MVP in 2022, he sucked in 23 playoffs but was probably hurt- he's got plenty enough left in the tank to get another 1.5 years out of him- I wouldn't personally extend him which is why I would trade him. Montero is meh. He's a guy that you are fine to have in your bullpen pitch the 5th or 6th inning in a regular season game or 7th - 9th if you are up or down 3, but yeah- he's a dude. That's why we'd have to give you a bunch of money. Maybe you don't want them all together like that- maybe you don't need all that- but Framber is worth a top 50 and top 100 this year at the deadline if you have him for 2 post seasons, Presley is probably worth a top 100 and would be the best bullpen arm on the market (unless the A's trade their guy) and Montero- if the Astros paid half his salary would be one of the best mid/low leverage guys on the market as well. Yall got plenty of dudes and they are all blocked- I don't know how many arms you want though- or how much control you want them for. I miss and love Elias and Sig. So jealous of yall. It's going to be a fun decade for yall.

striking out, throwing the ball into the OF, not blocking a pitch in the dirt? What did I miss?

THIS IS SO STUPID. He has a 305 babip for the year- there's nothing unsustainable about that at all-he's faster than average and the league average babip is something like right around 300. His wOBA and OPS+ are like 110 for the season. So fucking what if he had a good babip for one month and bad babip for another- yet we only talk about the good babip but not the bad one and we only throw out the good stretches but not the bad ones for reasons? Guys that put up 3+ WAR seasons (which is what his prorated numbers are every year he wasn't hurt) aren't 5th OFers. This is why it's as bad to make a 10 year old a GM as Jeff Bagwell and Reggie Jackson.

The organization keeps doing dumb things. To be fair to Brown I don't think it's really on him at all- I think his hands are tied- and the only thing he's really 100% in charge of is draft and development and that seems to be doing just fine.