2022 Houston Astros Thread

[Gut Wagon 8079]

Not walking that guy was kind of stupid. 

[UTexasFight 9454]

 

1 minute ago, Gut Wagon said:

Not walking that guy was kind of stupid. 

walking the leadoff guy was kind of stupid 

 

Edited August 17, 2022 by UTexasFight

[MirrOlure 14786]

You can’t convince me this Hendrick dude is hopped up on ‘ludes

[UTexasFight 9454]

Yordan deciding to use the 9th here to wake up in august would be a welcome development

[cabowabo 4485]

White Sox had three guys in their starting lineup batting 300 or better. We don’t have a single 300 hitter on the roster. 

[Honeysucklerose 990]

What a frustrating freaking series.

[Gut Wagon 8079]

1 minute ago, UTexasFight said:

 

walking the leadoff guy was kind of stupid 

Yordan deciding to use the 9th here to wake up in august would be a welcome development

Yes, as I noted when it happened. But once a guy was on third and you had a hot 2-out lefty hitter facing your shaky reliever, why wouldn't you walk him to get to the righty (whom you struck out)? I really don't get it. 

[cabowabo 4485]

Yordan is a lost puppy. 

[David Dennison 18860]

2 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Yordan deciding to use the 9th here to wake up in august would be a welcome development

Lolz.

[tx 3 putt 76970]

2 minutes ago, cabowabo said:

White Sox had three guys in their starting lineup batting 300 or better. We don’t have a single 300 hitter on the roster. 

 

and your point ?

also, they're city unis are much goofier than ours

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

Looking like it’s going to be a long week.

[WBT 20579]

well furk

[perfectchaos007 6643]

Lets try to avoid the sweep tomorrow I guess

[tx 3 putt 76970]

hopefully we pick up a W tomorrow 

Edited August 17, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[UTexasFight 9454]

I miss the AL west

 

wake me up when it’s September.

Looking like the start of the annual august swoon.

Edited August 17, 2022 by UTexasFight

[Honeysucklerose 990]

It’s a 4 game series you morons.

[HtownHorn 14684]

Hard to take this team seriously when you are consistently rolling out 3 black holes on offense. If the White Sox weren't such a horrible defensive team, we probably would have scored a total of 1 run so far in this series.

[David Dennison 18860]

We won't get swept tomorrow. I guarantee it.

[MirrOlure 14786]

I mean Goddammit. I love this team but what in the fuck was that shitty ass fuckface of a 3 at bat 8 pitch 9th??? From 1-2-3? Total fucking shitshow and now that it’s mid August….a bit of a seed of something to worry about.

[cabowabo 4485]

Just now, tx 3 putt said:

 

and your point ?

 

Just a factoid. Dusty doesn’t even choose to play his best players.  

[Make em eat Taco Bell 1549]

Alvarez really loves to swing at very bad pitches.  Coaches need to get on him, it's a huge opportunity cost to have this weapon be so ineffective. 

Overall, team needs to take more pitches, losing their patience. 

[Guadaloopy 10973]

2 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Lets try to avoid the sweep tomorrow I guess

I guarantee that we won’t be swept tomorrow.  

[HtownHorn 14684]

1 minute ago, cabowabo said:

Just a factoid. Dusty doesn’t even choose to play his best players.  

This is the biggest problem for this team going into the playoffs, when you manager is a fucking moron, eventually it catches up to you.

[perfectchaos007 6643]

Just now, Guadaloopy said:

I guarantee that we won’t be swept tomorrow.  

Ah right I couldn't remember if this was the 4 game series or the Braves

[Guadaloopy 10973]

Meh.  These last two games have been nut punches.  It happens.  Get ‘em tomorrow boys.  

[Make em eat Taco Bell 1549]

1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

This is the biggest problem for this team going into the playoffs, when you manager is a fucking moron, eventually it catches up to you.

he's done, who will lead in 2023?

[HtownHorn 14684]

Just now, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

he's done, who will lead in 2023?

1st person that can accurately put together an optimized lineup, and will let that lineup eat for 90% of the games.

[David Dennison 18860]

8 minutes ago, cabowabo said:

Just a factoid. Dusty doesn’t even choose to play his best players.  

That might be a byproduct of these factoids: the Astros are 75-43 and leading the division by double digits.

[Wulaw Horn 19070]

I hate everything 

[Gourmand 7774]

8 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

This is the biggest problem for this team going into the playoffs, when you manager is a fucking moron, eventually it catches up to you.

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

So this is what playing in a decent division with competent teams feels like. We’ve been living fat in a shit division. Gotta score more than 2 or 3 runs. What really hurts is Yankees are sucking and we’re missing great opportunities to put distance between us. Mancini and Vazquez will start tomorrow and we’ll score 7 runs. Que sera sera.

 

[Rip76 4928]

It seems like every year I talk about a series where, “The other team just wanted it more.”

Then I’m on the couch watching the Stros beat the Yankees to go back to another World Series.

[tx 3 putt 76970]

bullpen fail, back to back nights. sucks

[Gourmand 7774]

JV was the pitcher who allowed the game-tying double that scored two runs and Neris failed in the 8th but let's all blame it on Dusty like he's the big fuckin loser causing all this losing. 

[Gourmand 7774]

Jeremy Pena's OPS over the last 30 games: .569

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

Diaz likely going to the IL:

[tx 3 putt 76970]

1 minute ago, Seasick Sailor said:

Diaz likely going to the IL:
 

 

damn, i hope this is something that doesnt linger 

 

fuck 

 

 

call up niko !

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

 
 
 
call up niko !

I guess JJ comes back up and Mancini gets more starts in left.

[tx 3 putt 76970]

7 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

Jeremy Pena's OPS over the last 30 games: .569

 

he has to play through this 

[UTexasFight 9454]

24 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

he has to play through this 

He has to learn to recognize a slider out of the zone 

[Scraps 13561]

Hopefully Yordan gets through this slump soon.  Glad it is happening now and hopefully doesn't happen in October.

Last 14 days he has played in 12 games.  1 homer and 8 singles I believe.  

.209 avg with a pre all star break machete like .579 OPS (which btw machete has an impressive .246 avg and .746 OPS over the last 28 days)

 

 

Yuli has picked it up over the past 6 games .706 OPS, but if you go back to include the last 14 days he played 10 games and has an .494 OPS

As mentioned already, Pena's OPS over last 24 games is .553 

 

So now Bregman is great and Yordan sucks.  Would be nice for at least  Altuve, Yordan, Bregman, and Tucker to all be locked in at the same time.  

[UTexasFight 9454]

20 minutes ago, Scraps said:

So now Bregman is great and Yordan sucks.  Would be nice for at least  Altuve, Yordan, Bregman, and Tucker to all be locked in at the same time.  

Seems to happen every year where one or two of the big guns are up and one or two are down at the same time…and by October they are all (or at least the majority) usually locked in.

 

[txduck87 985]

Seems to happen every year where one or two of the big guns are up and one or two are down at the same time…and by October they are all (or at least the majority) usually locked in.
 

[Js1 85346]

The plus side - the Yankees keep losing  and are 2-8 in their last 10, so no harm, no foul

The other plus side - Seattle is still double digit games back because they're only 1 game better than us in their last 10

[tx 3 putt 76970]

Yankees are free falling.

bregman and Yuli are headed into the right direction. Diaz needs a quick recovery, we don’t need a 30 day groin injury. 

[UTexasFight 9454]

35 minutes ago, Js1 said:

The plus side - the Yankees keep losing  and are 2-8 in their last 10, so no harm, no foul

The other plus side - Seattle is still double digit games back because they're only 1 game better than us in their last 10

I feel like the Yankees L10 has been stuck on 2-8 since the all star break.

it’s glorious 

[tx 3 putt 76970]

Very cool, what a huge honor …

 

 

[Js1 85346]

48 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I feel like the Yankees L10 has been stuck on 2-8 since the all star break.

it’s glorious 

5 straight series losses they said last night? The DH loss to us broke them lol

[HtownHorn 14684]

2 hours ago, Scraps said:

Yuli has picked it up over the past 6 games .706 OPS, but if you go back to include the last 14 days he played 10 games and has an .494 OPS

Lulz. picked it up. No HRs since July 1st. 2 EBHs and 2 BBs in August. Yuli is done and it's ridiculous that he's getting this many ABs in the 2 hole.

[tx 3 putt 76970]

Click on the radio this am ….

 

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