2022 Houston Astros Thread

[tx 3 putt 76932]

 

[henrygandorf 29190]

day off on thurs. yordan can come back monday and only miss 4 games. 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

Kemp’n Ain’t Easy …

 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

17 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

day off on thurs. yordan can come back monday and only miss 4 games. 

plenty of time for Hensley to lock down his playoff roster spot 

[Gourmand 7774]

31 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

plenty of time for Hensley to lock down his playoff roster spot 

he deserves it but it does seem like the front office is doing everything it can to sell Jake Meyers to the playoff roster. 

[Gourmand 7774]

 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

20 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

he deserves it but it does seem like the front office is doing everything it can to sell Jake Meyers to the playoff roster. 

 

en fuego 

Jake Meyers last five games for @SLSpaceCowboys:

.611 BA (11-for-18), 2B, 3 HR, 6 RBI, 2 SB, 6 BB/0 K

[tx 3 putt 76932]

mancini's mom has a twitter account ...

 

 

[Pimphand 5740]

Lets fart in the MFY general direction tonight boys 

[Js1 85320]

We've broken the double digit run curse two times in a row now (Tampa Bay and Baltimore).

Do it tonight.  I want us to clinch #1 seed in the AL by winning, not the other way around.  

[HtownHorn 14678]

10 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

Have we ever had five guys with 20 or more HRs in a season? 

Plenty of times during the killer B's era

2000, 2001, 2004, 2015.

2019 had 7 20+ HR guys and they finished 3rd in the AL.

[TonyTexas 10510]

57 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

2019 had 7 20+ HR guys and they finished 3rd in the AL.

Wut?  Won 107 games and had the best record in MLB

[Storm the Field 5294]

Forgot that my wife bought a package during that Astros Charity Game a few weeks. Just showed up yesterday, pretty good haul.

Came with vouchers for 4 tickets to any regular season game, 4 vouchers for any single day of the Houston Open, and vouchers for tour of MMP. 2 bobbleheads, 4 replica championship rings, a ball signed by Jose Cruz, and an Astros Foundation RTIC sling cooler.

4 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Wut?  Won 107 games and had the best record in MLB

Believe he's referring to 3rd in HR total.

[TonyTexas 10510]

3 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

Believe he's referring to 3rd in HR total.

Got it. I was surprised Htown would make that mistake. Now his post makes sense. 

[Jshep34 2308]

Forgot that my wife bought a package during that Astros Charity Game a few weeks. Just showed up yesterday, pretty good haul.
Came with vouchers for 4 tickets to any regular season game, 4 vouchers for any single day of the Houston Open, and vouchers for tour of MMP. 2 bobbleheads, 4 replica championship rings, a ball signed by Jose Cruz, and an Astros Foundation RTIC sling cooler.
Believe he's referring to 3rd in HR total.

Awesome. Tell her thanks for helping out. Money went to help kids in need.

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[HtownHorn 14678]

22 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Got it. I was surprised Htown would make that mistake. Now his post makes sense. 

I could have worded it better, but yeah I was referring to finish in HRs. I think 2019 was when Verlander went on his rant about the balls. The Astros had 288 HRs as a team that season and finished 3rd in the league.

[kevwun 15781]

That was the year that Verlander gave up a solo home run in like every start.

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

43 minutes ago, kevwun said:

That was the year that Verlander gave up a solo home run in like every start.

Seemingly those were his only runs. It was like/ how many HR is JV going to give up today?  That’s how many runs the other team is scoring  9/10. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

1 hour ago, kevwun said:

That was the year that Verlander gave up a solo home run in like every start.

Well, not in the game where he threw a no-hitter.

[Gut Wagon 8065]

I really, really, really want Altuve to finish the regular season at .300...with 30 homers. The way he's hit lately, both are well within reach. 

[Hank Chinaski 6314]

1 minute ago, Gut Wagon said:

I really, really, really want Altuve to finish the regular season at .300...with 30 homers. The way he's hit lately, both are well within reach. 

He’s suddenly 4th in MLB in wRC+ at 162 (5th if you count Trout, who hasn’t played enough games to “qualify”). He was at 160 in his MVP year. 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

JV Day, let’s get it !!

 

[henrygandorf 29190]

4 hours ago, kevwun said:

That was the year that Verlander gave up a solo home run in like every start.

and now that man's name....is gerrit cole.

/paulharvey

(except they're not solo shots)

jv has improved on that quite a bit (12 in 163ip).  cole leads the league with 31 allowed.

[henrygandorf 29190]

11 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

mancini's mom has a twitter account ...

 

 

mancini is the guy who comes up against us in the playoffs and single-handedly steals a game.

[Gourmand 7774]

Corey Julks had two HRs for Sugar Land at Round Rock today. 31 HRs for the year with a .270/.351/.503 slash line for the season. Will be interesting to see if he can crack the 26-man roster next year. 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

Julks needs to come hard into spring training 

 

Edited September 28, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[Gourmand 7774]

 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

The GOAT ….

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

6 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

Corey Julks had two HRs for Sugar Land at Round Rock today. 31 HRs for the year with a .270/.351/.503 slash line for the season. Will be interesting to see if he can crack the 26-man roster next year. 

Julks for the playoff roster. Yeah, I know he isn’t eligible so cool your jets, Tony. 

[Gourmand 7774]

Just now, Fudge Nuggets said:

Julks for the playoff roster. Yeah, I know he isn’t eligible so cool your jets, Tony. 

Actually he is eligible but won't be on it. 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

I vote yes ….

 

[IDIOTsavant 8483]

50 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

 

That Gary Sanchez time is really impressive when you consider he probably dropped it first.

[Js1 85320]

Go get that franchise record

 

[Scraps 13561]

8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

I vote yes ….

 

I vote no 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

4 minutes ago, Scraps said:

I vote no 

what’s your plan for RF 

[Scraps 13561]

3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

what’s your plan for RF 

Kyle Tucker?  

Tucker isn't playing CF 

Or are we trading him for Ohtani? Did I miss that? 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

Damn I meant LF 

[Scraps 13561]

4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Damn I meant LF 

Not Brantley unless he wants to sign for cheap as hell then ok whatever.  

He's old, has no power, is slow, now coming off injury. I mean I like the guy, but he isn't a necessity for this team

We can just do what we have been doing the past 2 months out there.  Switch between Yordan/Chas playing out there if you don't want to waste money on signing Profar or someone.  Or if you do want to spend money you can go get the same no power guy in Benintendi who is 6 or 7 years younger 

 

 

[YChang 3443]

Daaaaamn, way to give our elders no respect! 😛

But in reality you're right. What a shame such a great guy/teammate didn't win a WS in his Houston tenure. 

[TonyTexas 10510]

3 minutes ago, YChang said:

What a shame such a great guy/teammate didn't win a WS in his Houston tenure. 

He’s winning a WS ring this year

[TexArcher 37774]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

I vote yes ….

 

Hell yes.

[IDIOTsavant 8483]

10 minutes ago, YChang said:

Daaaaamn, way to give our elders no respect! 😛

But in reality you're right. What a shame such a great guy/teammate didn't win a WS in his Houston tenure. 

 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

Not sold on benedenti as a locker room fit and he’ll be $$$

need to find his numbers in a Latin player 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Not sold on benedenti as a locker room fit and he’ll be $$$

need to find his numbers in a Latin player 

and a career year for him. Hard pass on that for me 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

If the money is right, do it !

 

 

[TonyTexas 10510]

8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

If the money is right, do it !

What would you consider to be right money?

[huge 3793]

1/15?

[Scraps 13561]

1/8 lol

[Scraps 13561]

Not sold on benedenti as a locker room fit and he’ll be $$$
need to find his numbers in a Latin player 

I don't want him either, just an example of replacing old Brantley with someone who does the same shit. I wouldn't sign either of them.

[Pimphand 5740]

Verlander needs to throw 8 more innings and not give up an earned run to post an ERA of 1.736842105 which would beat Pedro's 2000 ERA of 1.741935484 which would be the lowest AL ERA of the Wild Card era (since 1995)

Now Vote 4 Pedro was 0.84 ERA below #2 (Kevin Brown) where Verlander would not even be at 50% that amount ahead of #2 this year.