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  On 9/17/2020 at 2:39 AM, Scraps said:

This just in: cy young award being renamed the kyle gibson award


Jfc hit the ball

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Well, this shutout dropped his era to a microscopic 5.18.  Sometimes you just have to tip your cap.

 

At least Tucker hit it hard.

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Hard to get too worked up over barely taking a series from that JV team the Rangers rolled out there. Tired of hearing about how well the Rangers pitched. Those guys were Jabronies last week and they'll be jabronies next week 

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  On 9/18/2020 at 2:16 PM, jkates said:

I love Framber.

 

I miss our bats.

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Yeah man, it's something. They all (other than Yordan, Tucker and Brantley) caught a case of the suck at the same time, and then Yordan got hurt.  Nobody on the team over 900 ops.  Almost nobody over 800.  Nobody on any leaderboards other than Tucker probably.  

I haven't watched us much and I've watched everyone else for a total of about 5 minutes- is offense down all over the place, or is this an us thing?

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  On 9/18/2020 at 7:31 PM, Wulaw Horn said:

Yeah man, it's something. They all (other than Yordan, Tucker and Brantley) caught a case of the suck at the same time, and then Yordan got hurt.  Nobody on the team over 900 ops.  Almost nobody over 800.  Nobody on any leaderboards other than Tucker probably.  

I haven't watched us much and I've watched everyone else for a total of about 5 minutes- is offense down all over the place, or is this an us thing?

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BABIP has been down a lot league-wide...I think it has crept up in recent weeks, but it was way down around .275 and has historically been right around .300. 

Plenty of individual players are doing well, but other great players (Yelich, Bellinger, Bryant, in addition to Altuve) have been bad too. 

I think the thing to keep in mind is that, in an ordinary season, we'd be right around Memorial Day right now. So this is still a small sample size. 

Springer has been mostly himself after a bad start. Bregman notoriously starts slowly, and he hasn't been awful - one hot week and his numbers will be right where you'd expect. 

There was a good piece on Altuve's struggles in Fangraphs yesterday...doesn't really draw anything conclusive, but a good analysis. He's seeing fewer fastballs than ever. The most interesting part, to me, is that he has an unusually large standard deviation of launch angle, and the author notes there is a relationship between that and BABIP (meaning, his low BABIP is likely not all attributable to bad luck): 

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https://blogs.fangraphs.com/is-jose-altuve-still-on-target-for-3000-hits/

 

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Posted (edited)
  On 9/19/2020 at 5:03 PM, Jshep34 said:

Tip of the hat to JV. Amazing how stupid Astros medical staff can be in delaying players surgery when its needed.

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He was going to be out next year regardless. Let the rebuild begin. CYA JV, George, Yuli, Josh and Uncle Mike. It was a hell of a lot of fun while it lasted

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No doubt he was but it seems many players have had "nagging " injuries for months only to need surgery that further delays playing again. 2021 Astros are going to look completely different. Always have support and appreciation for the 2015 to 2019 guys.

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  On 9/19/2020 at 5:14 PM, Jshep34 said:

No doubt he was but it seems many players have had "nagging " injuries for months only to need surgery that further delays playing again. 2021 Astros are going to look completely different. Always have support and appreciation for the 2015 to 2019 guys.

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They definitely fucked up the Alvarez situation 

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  On 9/19/2020 at 5:09 PM, TonyTexas said:
He was going to be out next year regardless. Let the rebuild begin. CYA JV, George, Yuli, Josh and Uncle Mike. It was a hell of a lot of fun while it lasted

And JV makes $33 million next season.

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