2022 Houston Astros Thread

[Gourmand 7774]

 

I'm an old man now who grew up on Htown pro sports. I fell in love with the Luv Ya Blue Oilers as a very young kid. Earl was my first hero and I will always love him for making me a Houston sports fan and that fandom coincided with those Astros and Rockets playoff teams in 1980/81. I remember watching Cheo, Terry Puhl, Cedeno, Art Howe, Denny Walling, Craig Reynolds, Joe Sambito, Danny Heep, Dave Smith, Nolan (duh), Joe Niekro, etc and then watching the Calvin Murphy/Moses Malone/Robert Reid Rockets teams later followed by the Twin Towers and then those Clutch City Rockets teams that delivered the Greatest Moment in Houston Sports Ever when they beat the Knicks in gm 7.

This man pictured above has surpassed Hakeem as the most iconic face on Houston Sports Mt Rushmore. 

We are truly blessed as fans with what the Astros have given us the last seven years and this Astros dynasty (and it is a dynasty goddamnit) does not exist without Jose Altuve. 

Do I literally love him? You're goddamn right I do. 

Edited September 20, 2022 by Gourmand

[tx 3 putt 76906]

The best $15,000 the Astros ever spent. 
 

 

[Planet Houston 4930]

On 4/4/2022 at 3:32 PM, Planet Houston said:

Bury me in the H. But until then, let’s win some more titles.

LFG. 

Special, special era fellas. I feel the same way about Altuve, @Gourmand.

One more thing left to do this year. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

Page 420 representing’ another division title. It never gets old. 

[huge 3793]

It never gets old.  

Lets

Keep

Fucking

Going

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

 

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

Can you put a player on the IL for a hangover? Asking for Neris.

 

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

The celebration was so mild I don’t even think I’m going to go bet on Tampa tonight. Probably will but yeah, this team shouldn’t be super hung over. 

[Gourmand 7774]

Predictions for divisional playoff roster?

I'm assuming Maton is the guy who gets left off the roster and Brown makes it as a reliever. On the offensive side, at the beginning of the season who'da thunk Jake Meyers would be stuck in AAA and lose a playoff roster spot to the unheralded minor leaguer David Hensley?

 

[Mez2 4023]

if i ever was in a postgame celebration like this, I would definitely be Hector Neris.  

[kevwun 15774]

Neris is lucky he didn't drown.

[TonyTexas 10510]

37 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

Predictions for divisional playoff roster?

I'm assuming Maton is the guy who gets left off the roster and Brown makes it as a reliever. On the offensive side, at the beginning of the season who'da thunk Jake Meyers would be stuck in AAA and lose a playoff roster spot to the unheralded minor leaguer David Hensley?

 

I’d like to see Martinez make it in lieu of Garcia or Urquidy, particularly if Brown makes it as a long reliever. Seems like a more useful bullpen piece. Probably won’t happen but should. 

Edited September 20, 2022 by TonyTexas

[Gourmand 7774]

3 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

I’d like to see Martinez make it in lieu of Garcia or Urquidy, particularly if Brown makes it as a long reliever. Seems like a more useful bullpen piece. Probably won’t happen but should. 

Yeah he deserves it for his performance this year but I value the playoff experience Urquidy and Garcia bring to the table.

 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

29 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

if i ever was in a postgame celebration like this, I would definitely be Hector Neris.  

😂😂😂😂

Edited September 20, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[tx 3 putt 76906]

He needs a big bowl of menudo 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

So we locked in our first round bye also ?

[tx 3 putt 76906]

MLB mctaggart …. Martinez is on the playoff roster, he got that wrong. Urquidy, Garcia, Maton, brown - pick one. Also a 3rd catcher for Hensley ?

 

What could the postseason roster look like?

C: Martín Maldonado, Christian Vázquez1B: Yuli Gurriel
2B: Jose Altuve
SS: Jeremy Peña
3B: Alex Bregman
UT: Aledmys Díaz, Mauricio Dubón, David Hensley
DH: Trey Mancini
OF: Yordan Alvarez, Kyle Tucker, Chas McCormick
Pitchers: Justin Verlander, Framber Valdez, Lance McCullers Jr., José Urquidy, Luis Garcia, Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Phil Maton, Rafael Montero, Héctor Neris, Ryan Pressly, Ryne Stanek, Will Smith

 

 

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

13 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

MLB mctaggart …. Martinez is on the playoff roster, he got that wrong. Urquidy, Garcia, Maton, brown - pick one. Also a 3rd catcher for Hensley ?

 

What could the postseason roster look like?

C: Martín Maldonado, Christian Vázquez1B: Yuli Gurriel
2B: Jose Altuve
SS: Jeremy Peña
3B: Alex Bregman
UT: Aledmys Díaz, Mauricio Dubón, David Hensley
DH: Trey Mancini
OF: Yordan Alvarez, Kyle Tucker, Chas McCormick
Pitchers: Justin Verlander, Framber Valdez, Lance McCullers Jr., José Urquidy, Luis Garcia, Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Phil Maton, Rafael Montero, Héctor Neris, Ryan Pressly, Ryne Stanek, Will Smith

 

 

Third catcher instead of the 13th pitcher in the divisional series.  We always do it that way. For fucks sake- there are 2 off days in this round where it takes 7 days to play 5 games.  McTaggert pees sitting down so it's no surprise he doesn't have Hunter Brown on his divisional roster squad.  

[TonyTexas 10510]

^^^ ( McTaggart post)

i don’t think he has that right. I don’t know why you’d need 13 pitchers, particularly in the best-of-5 ALDS with the staff fully rested and 2 off days

Edited September 20, 2022 by TonyTexas

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

It feels like we could pretty easily get by (if we wanted to and swept) with something like 6 pitchers in the Divisional series round if we only play 3 games. I know they won't want to do it that way but you saw how easy stacking the starters could be last night.  We took Brown out for I don't fucking know why as he was pretty much the definition of cruising and had thrown what- like 38 pitches or something- and we took Garcia out b/c we could.

Not hard to imagine a scenario where you went:

JV- 7 innings, Montero, Presley

Off Day

Framber- 7 innings, Montero Presley

Off Day

Lance- 5 innings, Brown 4 innings, shake hands and go home.  If you want to substitute Javier in there that's fine too.  

The downside of this, of course, is that the Houston staff is insanely deep and talented and it by far works to our benefit to get into a contest of your 11th best pitcher vs our 10th best pitcher or something like that.  We win that contest against everyone going away. If it's a battle between the top 5 or 6 arms on a staff I'm certainly not feeling like the other team will have an advantage on us or anything, but our advantage is much less pronounced.  

[UTexasFight 9431]

Not that it changes the roster calculus, but the ALDS schedule is fucky this year.

there are two off days, but they are after games 1 and 2, instead of 2 and 4.

So could have 3 straight games in a row if it goes 5.

 

if the mariners stay the 6 seed, I think I’ll be rooting for them to handle Cleveland in the WC round and Yanks/M’s go 5 and having to make a cross country flight after game 4 to play game 5 the next day.

 

 

Edited September 20, 2022 by UTexasFight

[Gourmand 7774]

 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

 

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[Chuckie Finster 22694]

3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Poor Yainer can't even get in on Hangover Day...

[Texas St. Armadillos 1381]

I guess these guys are gonna run through the tape until the #1 seed is clinched.  I'm good with that.

[Scraps 13561]

Should've made Neris start today

[Starfleet Command 441]

10 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Poor Yainer can't even get in on Hangover Day...

i forgot he was still with the team lol

[tx 3 putt 76906]

5 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Should've made Neris start today

[runthebone 7975]

1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Poor Yainer can't even get in on Hangover Day...

I assumed he was going to play today.  Poor bastard

[Js1 85312]

1 hour ago, Texas St. Armadillos said:

I guess these guys are gonna run through the tape until the #1 seed is clinched.  I'm good with that.

As they should.

[TonyTexas 10510]

21 minutes ago, runthebone said:

I assumed he was going to play today.  Poor bastard

I imagine he’s quite happy being on the big club with a significant pay bump and MLB perks. 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

26 minutes ago, runthebone said:

I assumed he was going to play today.  Poor bastard

dusty said he's getting some at bats very soon 

[billfromlaketravis 11460]

Does anybody have a working stream? The usual suspects are down. 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

100 rbi's for Tucker !

[runthebone 7975]

We're doing this for JV, right?

[henrygandorf 29189]

5 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

We took Brown out for I don't fucking know why

 

3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

asked and answered. 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

brown will be available this weekend v pitching an extra inning yesterday (and giving the rays a longer look at his stuff)

Edited September 20, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[Telegraph_it 3357]

Sheeeeeeeit. That's a HR. 

[Js1 85312]

Boom

[tx 3 putt 76906]

Timely HR !

[elfenix 34231]

Peña!

[Scraps 13561]

First pitch i tuned into deposited into the ray tank....ok maybe not in the tank

My work here is done

[tx 3 putt 76906]

 

[runthebone 7975]

Ready for a lot of Maton the next 2 weeks.

[tx 3 putt 76906]

 

[UTexasFight 9431]

Yanier should starts 

[Gut Wagon 8065]

Nice for Diaz 

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

Yanier should have DHd the whole game. We know what Yuli can do. And can’t do.

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

5 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Yanier should starts 

I really really really wish he would have gotten a months worth of AB’s, while we were essentially playing for nothing, to know if this would have been true for the playoffs or for next year. 
I suspect he’s one of the top 9 bats in the organization, but who could tell.