2022 Houston Astros Thread

[Halohal 498]

Baseball is fun

[Guest]

A's relievers are best in majors since June 28th( per their broadcast).

 

ted says fuck yo stats.

Edited July 10, 2022 by slorch

[UTexasFight 9369]

Needs a SB to get back on pace for 30/30

[billfromlaketravis 11352]

What’s the timeline on the A’s leaving? I just can’t with this shit box stadium and 1k attendance. 

[Pimphand 5587]

20 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Send the tape to Toronto of todays game. Tell them we want Biggio for Odo. Biggio will probably be better than Dubon and a decent Diaz replacement. Or else he will suck but whatever, it’s Odo, who cares?  

 

[Scraps 13531]

These are the games that Maton should pitch in so he can do shit like that and it not matter

[Gut Wagon 8052]

Lee is a machine. 

[tx 3 putt 76159]

7 minutes ago, Scraps said:

These are the games that Maton should pitch in so he can do shit like that and it not matter
 

eating meaning less innings and have film to review 

[tx 3 putt 76159]

Radio talking Odo - at least 10 teams that could use him 

[Guest]

Won the Series.   Go Astros

Attendance 10,195.  LOLz

[UTexasFight 9369]

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Radio talking Odo - at least 10 teams that could use him 

He needs one more start like this against these same A’s next Sunday in Houston to leave GMs with that to chew on heading in to the ASB

[elfenix 34168]

Got my word suggestions on my keyboard working again

[WBT 20397]

Keep winning series

[tx 3 putt 76159]

2 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

He needs one more start like this against these same A’s next Sunday in Houston to leave GMs with that to chew on heading in to the ASB

someone will get jump the gun and pull the trigger 

[Wulaw Horn 18963]

I knew Biggio walked a lot but holy shit that dude walks a lot. My goodness. His BA sucks but his OBP is pretty pretty good. Not great slugging. He’s 27, so what you see is likely what you get. I wonder if Toronto would move him for Odo. They need a league average guy in their rotation. Seems fair both ways. 

[tx 3 putt 76159]

We don’t need a 27 yo player 

[Wulaw Horn 18963]

1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

We don’t need a 27 yo player 

I mean, he’d slot in just fine for replacement of Diaz. I can’t imagine you get an every day guy for Odo. Anything that helps in the future is fine. It’s not like he’s a super high value asset. 

[tx 3 putt 76159]

I’d prefer we trade for young prospects. 27 yo bench guys are easy to find 

[Gut Wagon 8052]

If Yuli is going to continue to hit better, and especially if Brantley can still play LF, is Bell still a highly desirable trade target? He'd likely have a tough time playing OF for us, and I don't see moving Yuli off 1B. 

[UTexasFight 9369]

1 minute ago, Gut Wagon said:

If Yuli is going to continue to hit better, and especially if Brantley can still play LF, is Bell still a highly desirable trade target? He'd likely have a tough time playing OF for us, and I don't see moving Yuli off 1B. 

Yes

i still love Yuli but even with his recent surge he seems to only be able to offer doubles in the gap, slapping the ball to right with an inside-out swing and grounding in to 6-4-3 DPs

[tx 3 putt 76159]

Only moves I see - moving odo and Chas. Getting a lefty reliever 

 

i don’t see anything happening until they know Yordan’s status for the rest of the season 

Edited July 10, 2022 by tx 3 putt

[LebongJames 1781]

41 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Only moves I see - moving odo and Chas. Getting a lefty reliever 

 

i don’t see anything happening until they know Yordan’s status for the rest of the season 

I really hope they are just trying to rest him for two weeks.

[TonyTexas 10478]

Whitley trade value trending 📉

 

[Scraps 13531]

Smh

[runthebone 7929]

Jesus.  Well, Odor's is going up.

[WBT 20397]

34 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Whitley trade value trending 📉

 

Shut him down to rest up for the playoffs

[tx 3 putt 76159]

Forrest Whitley ranging from 93-76 on FB and breaking pitches through 1 and 2/3 innings of work. He was pulled off the mound suddenly. Not sure what they saw but that can’t be good. Can’t speculate hope it’s the heat. Feels like temp is 104 feels like 115 (Video from the game shows him grimacing due to right arm issues. Looked more like bicep area.)

[tx 3 putt 76159]

[Wulaw Horn 18963]

Awesome. Bicep- is that Tommy John territory?  He going through the double?  

[runthebone 7929]

Maybe Forrest can go pro in something other than baseball.

[WBT 20397]

9 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Instead of a bum which is what I am

[Wulaw Horn 18963]

2 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Maybe Forrest can go pro in something other than baseball.

Fuckitty fuck fuck fuck. 

[kevwun 15595]

57 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Awesome. Bicep- is that Tommy John territory?  He going through the double?  

It seems to always be forearm tightness, but a torn bicep is also a bad injury.

Edited July 11, 2022 by kevwun

[Wulaw Horn 18963]

They are saying shoulder inflammation.  That’s not great either. 

[UTexasFight 9369]

1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

They are saying shoulder inflammation.  That’s not great either. 

Was just going to say, the only thing worse would be shoulder/rotator cuff 

[UTexasFight 9369]

God bless the AL west

Orioles are 2 games from catching the Blue Jays and climbing out of the cellar in the east. The same record in the AL West would have them 2 games out of 2nd

[tx 3 putt 76159]

It’ll be fun to watch 

[Gut Wagon 8052]

The poor Yankees have fallen off that red-hot pace and are hardly playing like a team aiming to set the all-time wins record. Long time until October for everyone, but as long as Yordan returns on schedule and at least approaches his earlier production, I'd say the Astros have about a 50-50 shot at HFA. Whether having it is to our benefit or not is of course another question. With our top two starters being so dominant and our road record being so solid, I'd take full health over HFA 10 times out of 10. 

[texashorne 1177]

15 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

The poor Yankees have fallen off that red-hot pace and are hardly playing like a team aiming to set the all-time wins record. Long time until October for everyone, but as long as Yordan returns on schedule and at least approaches his earlier production, I'd say the Astros have about a 50-50 shot at HFA. Whether having it is to our benefit or not is of course another question. With our top two starters being so dominant and our road record being so solid, I'd take full health over HFA 10 times out of 10. 

It's all about who is hot at the right time.. but yes we absolutely need to be healthy, especially on the mound.. No JV or LMJ last postseason was a killer. 

[Guest]

Off days suck.  Hell, Dusty already builds them into the schedule…

I get grumpy when our heroes don’t play.

[Guadaloopy 10903]

I just hope the boys steer clear of Disneyland.   We’ve had enough of “health and safety” protocols.   Although, “Rise of the Resistance” is pretty awesome.  

[Wulaw Horn 18963]

56 minutes ago, slorch said:

Off days suck.  Hell, Dusty already builds them into the schedule…

I get grumpy when our heroes don’t play.

Yeah, I was bummed out about it all weekend, knowing we have an off day today and then late starts following that up.  It's just terrible that there are off days in baseball.  They are all the more cruel for how rare they are. 

[UTPhil2006 3790]

2 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

The poor Yankees have fallen off that red-hot pace and are hardly playing like a team aiming to set the all-time wins record. Long time until October for everyone, but as long as Yordan returns on schedule and at least approaches his earlier production, I'd say the Astros have about a 50-50 shot at HFA. Whether having it is to our benefit or not is of course another question. With our top two starters being so dominant and our road record being so solid, I'd take full health over HFA 10 times out of 10. 

Sweep the DH next week will go a long way

[UTexasFight 9369]

1 hour ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Sweep the DH next week will go a long way

Indeed

pick up a game this week and sweep that DH and you’re 1.5 back

At a minimum gotta split the DH to win the tiebreaker over the yanks

 

[Wulaw Horn 18963]

15 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Indeed

pick up a game this week and sweep that DH and you’re 1.5 back

At a minimum gotta split the DH to win the tiebreaker over the yanks

 

Man, playing the winner of the Twins v 6th place team in round 1 is probably preferable to me than playing Boston or Tampa in round 1. Get the #1 seed if you can, for sure, but that's not a bad consolation to play Minny or Sea as it sits right now.  

[Jshep34 2303]

All star jerseys are out.

[tx 3 putt 76159]

Zero fucks about HFA, we’re a better WS road team 

[Gourmand 7774]

Rumors that Yordan is gonna miss a lot of time and needs wrist surgery for his hammate bone.

https://sicscore.com/mlb/updates/astros-injury-report-houston-places-all-star-slugger-yordan-alvarez-on-10-day-il-with-hand-injury

[billfromlaketravis 11352]

1 minute ago, Gourmand said:

Rumors that Yordan is gonna miss a lot of time and needs wrist surgery for his hammate bone.

https://sicscore.com/mlb/updates/astros-injury-report-houston-places-all-star-slugger-yordan-alvarez-on-10-day-il-with-hand-injury

[ChickenSandwich 9797]

Time to go get a bat