2022 Houston Astros Thread

[tx 3 putt 76314]

[tx 3 putt 76314]

#csb - pena is tied with biggio, postseason homeruns 

[Saint Tacky 1610]

27 minutes ago, Sleepygrad said:

Where can I get an Altuve prayer candle? He needs all the mojo we can summon!!

Altuve Prayer Candle

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

Perfect:

 

 

Edited October 20, 2022 by Seasick Sailor

[DoobieWah 1411]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

Per the post game show last night, Astros decision and the Yankees agree’d 

Oh well obviously that’s different. As long as the Astros made that decision it’s all good. 

[tx 3 putt 76314]

 

 

[wildcat09 29225]

 

 

[Pimphand 5594]

39 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

#csb - pena is tied with biggio, postseason homeruns 

He also has 2x the home runs that Mike Trout does.  He also has 6 more hits than Trout despite only 6 more plate appearances.

[Guadaloopy 10918]

4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

 

 

Should have used "Master of Puppets."

[UTexasFight 9376]

4 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

He also has 2x the home runs that Mike Trout does.  He also has 6 more hits than Trout despite only 6 more plate appearances.

Peña, in 4 playoff games played, having 6 more plate appearances than Trout is a baseball travesty 

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

So we thinking same lineup tonight? 

[Dennis Taylor 18701]

10 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

He also has 2x the home runs that Mike Trout does.  He also has 6 more hits than Trout despite only 6 more plate appearances.

Mike Trout has been in the postseason...?

[TexArcher 37508]

5 hours ago, mrhorn said:

Holy shit, Yankee fan on XM radio show was asking why steroids are illegal and Tommy John surgery isn’t.

They’re about to break.

Wait 'til they find out Tommy John played half his career for the Yankees...

 

[Guadaloopy 10918]

5 hours ago, mrhorn said:

Holy shit, Yankee fan on XM radio show was asking why steroids are illegal and Tommy John surgery isn’t.

They’re about to break.

Do they think TJS is like some Henry Rowengartner shit?  Morons.

[TonyTexas 10481]

Dusty is one cool cat

 

[tx 3 putt 76314]

he invented the 'high five', hard to top that 

[Dennis Taylor 18701]

6 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Wait 'til they find out Tommy John played half his career for the Yankees...

 

Or that Tallion has had TJS 2x

[Chuckie Finster 22598]

Realized last night that I don't fear a single arm out of their bullpen.  I know it's definitely been mentioned, but I feel like that aspect of the matchup is somehow underappreciated.  

[TonyTexas 10481]

8 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Wait 'til they find out Tommy John played half his career for the Yankees...

 

 

1 minute ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Or that Tallion has had TJS 2x

Don’t fall into the Helo trap of equating one fan’s stupid opinion to that of a whole fan base. 

[Pablo 494]

3 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Realized last night that I don't fear a single arm out of their bullpen.  I know it's definitely been mentioned, but I feel like that aspect of the matchup is somehow underappreciated.  

I thought about that too.  Their bullpen used to be stocked with filthy high paid relievers.  Our bully had been legit, despite Montero getting a bit shaky last night, Press was fucking nails and Nerris rocked his outing.

[UTexasFight 9376]

23 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

So we thinking same lineup tonight? 

Probably Mancini in for diaz 

[Scraps 13540]

They do realize DH doesn't stand for Designated Hindrance correct?

Show some life DH

[texashorne 1177]

2 minutes ago, Scraps said:

They do realize DH doesn't stand for Designated Hindrance correct?

Show some life DH
 

Lol.. but yeah this is where you miss Uncle Mike

[UTexasFight 9376]

7 minutes ago, Scraps said:

They do realize DH doesn't stand for Designated Hindrance correct?

Show some life DH
 

“Mancini (0-for-6) and Aledmys Díaz (1-for-15) have combined to go 1-for-21 in the first four games of the postseason“

 

….which is still better than Altuve’s 0-22!!!

 

1-43 from your leadoff and DH = 4-0

Baseball!!!!

Edited October 20, 2022 by UTexasFight

[tx 3 putt 76314]

1 minute ago, UTexasFight said:

“Mancini (0-for-6) and Aledmys Díaz (1-for-15) have combined to go 1-for-21 in the first four games of the postseason“

 

….which is still better than Altuve’s 0-22!!!

 

give Hensley a chance 

[APMP 685]

If DH is gonna be such a black hole, you could just put Yordan there and get better defense in the outfield.

[Guadaloopy 10918]

1 minute ago, APMP said:

If DH is gonna be such a black hole, you could just put Yordan there and get better defense in the outfield.
 

Maybe at Yankee Stadium where there is more ground to cover, but he has been sneaky good in LF at MMP.  Not sure we actually have a better LF for the limited space at MMP. 

[The Dog 43792]

 

[UTexasFight 9376]

4 minutes ago, APMP said:

If DH is gonna be such a black hole, you could just put Yordan there and get better defense in the outfield.
 

This astro talk or Yankee talk?

They’re saying the same thing today with Stanton in LF and Matt “golden sombrero” Carpenter at DH last night 

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

 

43 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

So we thinking same lineup tonight? 

We should make a change at DH.

20 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Probably Mancini in for diaz 

This is what will probably happen. 

8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

give Hensley a chance 

This is what should happen. 

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

I would not hate Hensley getting a chance. I really don’t remember a bad at bat from him. I’d rather see him get his feet wet at home than at Yankee stadium but I also expect Mancini to be at DH or LF tonight. 

[UTexasFight 9376]

If it’s Hensley, what say you?

 

that click/FO is 100% pulling the strings and Dusty is just a puppet at this stage?

i’d be fine with that except that I’m sure that sort of arrangement undoubtedly led to some agreement that Dusty will be back next year 

[henrygandorf 29174]

fwiw, mancini is 6-17 with a homer against severino, which probably includes some ab from several years ago when severino was a cy young candidate.

https://swishanalytics.com/optimus/mlb/batter-vs-pitcher-stats

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

2 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

fwiw, mancini is 6-17 with a homer against severino, which probably includes some ab from several years ago when severino was a cy young candidate.

https://swishanalytics.com/optimus/mlb/batter-vs-pitcher-stats

Well I think there’s our lineup answer

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

7 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

fwiw, mancini is 6-17 with a homer against severino, which probably includes some ab from several years ago when severino was a cy young candidate.

https://swishanalytics.com/optimus/mlb/batter-vs-pitcher-stats

Batter	Pitcher	PA	AB	H	1B	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG

Giancarlo Stanton (R)  LF	Framber Valdez  (L)	8	8	4	2	1	0	1	0	2	.500	.500	1.000
Tim Locastro (R)  N/A	Framber Valdez  (L)	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	2.000
Christian Vazquez (R)  N/A	Luis Severino  (R)	12	11	4	4	0	0	0	1	3	.364	.417	.364
Trey Mancini (R)  N/A	Luis Severino  (R)	18	17	6	5	0	0	1	1	2	.353	.389	.529
Yordan Alvarez (L)  DH	Luis Severino  (R)	5	3	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	.333	.600	.333
Yuli Gurriel (R)  1B	Luis Severino  (R)	23	21	7	5	2	0	0	2	2	.333	.391	.429
Aledmys Diaz (R)  RF	Luis Severino  (R)	12	11	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	.273	.333	.273
Jose Altuve (R)  2B	Luis Severino  (R)	27	27	7	6	0	0	1	0	6	.259	.259	.370
Gleyber Torres (R)  2B	Framber Valdez  (L)	8	8	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.625
Aaron Judge (R)  CF	Framber Valdez  (L)	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.200
Josh Donaldson (R)  3B	Framber Valdez  (L)	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200
Kyle Tucker (L)  CF	Luis Severino  (R)	6	5	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	.200	.333	.800
Alex Bregman (R)  3B	Luis Severino  (R)	20	18	3	1	2	0	0	2	4	.167	.250	.278
Isiah Kiner-Falefa (R)  SS	Framber Valdez  (L)	14	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143
Martin Maldonado (R)  C	Luis Severino  (R)	11	11	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	.091	.091	.182
Anthony Rizzo (L)  1B	Framber Valdez  (L)	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000
Jose Trevino (R)  C	Framber Valdez  (L)	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.100	.000
J.J. Matijevic (L)  N/A	Luis Severino  (R)	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000
Mauricio Dubon (R)  N/A	Luis Severino  (R)	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
Oswald Peraza (R)  N/A	Framber Valdez  (L)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
David Hensley (R)  N/A	Luis Severino  (R)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

A couple things from the above:

1. If Vasquez can keep Framber in line, it would be shame to have him on the bench tonight. 

2. We can't let Stanton beat us tonight. If I was Boone, I'd bat Stanton and Judge back-to-back.

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

 

[The Dog 43792]

4 minutes ago, Seasick Sailor said:

 

 

[TonyTexas 10481]

 

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

No Vasquez. No Mancini. No Hensley. 

Edited October 20, 2022 by Seasick Sailor

[Scraps 13540]

I figured Mancini would get most of the playing time this series just for the simple fact he used to see all these guys a lot playing in the same division

[Gut Wagon 8052]

1 minute ago, Scraps said:

I figured Mancini would get most of the playing time this series just for the simple fact he used to see all these guys a lot playing in the same division
 

Counterpoint: Their pitchers saw him a lot, too. 

[UTexasFight 9376]

Counter counter point:

he sucks 

[Telegraph_it 3354]

I guess the Yankees are staying at the Post Oak Hotel. My coworker saw Savarino and Cortez getting into a car going to MMP I presume. He told Savarino to take it easy on our boys… and Savarino said “should be the other way around.”

I’m going to believe this happened. 

[texashorne 1177]

20 minutes ago, Scraps said:

I figured Mancini would get most of the playing time this series just for the simple fact he used to see all these guys a lot playing in the same division
 

Same argument could be made for Vasquez.

[tx 3 putt 76314]

We go 2-0, this line up works 

[formermav43 4599]

23 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Counter counter point:

he sucks 

Counter counter counterpoint: not vs. Severino.

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

1 hour ago, The Dog said:

 

Filthy. 

[Pimphand 5594]

2 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Peña, in 4 playoff games played, having 6 more plate appearances than Trout is a baseball travesty 

He's their hitting equivalent of Nolan Ryan one playoff appearance for the franchise.

[TonyTexas 10481]

Yankees with lots of lineup changes