2023 Houston Astros Thread

[tx 3 putt 77920]

Need to stop chasing 

[tx 3 putt 77920]

Dubon 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[WBT 20735]

George is getting upset

[YChang 3472]

Just now, WBT said:

George is getting upset

That doesn’t sound as fun these days…

[David Dennison 19117]

Dang it, George!

[Rimbo 26420]

1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

Dang it, George!

Ain't even mad.

Still love that guy.

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

I miss George but I’m starting to resent him hitting home runs against us. His lack of loyalty is perturbing. 

[tx 3 putt 77920]

4-4 v gausman 

 

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

Julks if nothing else is becoming a trade piece. 

[Guadaloopy 11039]

Has anyone suggested to Maldy that he should stop calling the home run pitch?

[rvm96 1643]

16 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

Julks if nothing else is becoming a trade piece. 

Still shocked nobody took a chance on him in the rule 5 draft.

[tx 3 putt 77920]

we need to stop scoring 10+ runs 

[Guadaloopy 11039]

Would have been nice to extend that inning another batter or two to get Gausman out of there.  He’ll definitely get the 7th now.  

[Mo Horn 8899]

As predicted by many yesterday, bats are nonexistent tonight. 

[Welch 635]

20 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Has anyone suggested to Maldy that he should stop calling the home run pitch?

Maldy has called a perfect game.  Brown just keeps making mistakes.

[Guadaloopy 11039]

Name that Astro too easy tonight.  Lazy clues. 
Derek Bell. 

[tx 3 putt 77920]

9 minutes ago, Welch said:

Maldy has called a perfect game.  Brown just keeps making mistakes.

 

3 hitter 

[David Dennison 19117]

10 minutes ago, Welch said:

Maldy has called a perfect game.  Brown just keeps making mistakes.

He could use a little help from the offense.

[HtownHorn 14915]

So, Brown has an era north of 5.00 with Maldonado catching to go along with all 6 of his HRs allowed. Dusty is a fucking moron.

[Wulaw Horn 19233]

10 minutes ago, Welch said:

Maldy has called a perfect game.  Brown just keeps making mistakes.

Maldy doesn’t call Browns best pitch, the curveball, because he doesn’t like trying to catch a curveball. 
this ump is a clown. No reason to punch Tucker out on that without a call down to 3rd for the check swing. 

[Wulaw Horn 19233]

1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

So, Brown has an era north of 5.00 with Maldonado catching to go along with all 6 of his HRs allowed. Dusty is a fucking moron.

Yeah it’s beyond stupid. I’m trying to process through the stages of grief with this. 

[WBT 20735]

12 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Name that Astro too easy tonight.  Lazy clues. 
Derek Bell. 

Find someone that loves you the way Blum loves the Operation Shutdown story

[UTexasFight 9603]

15 Ks

notgreatbob 

[UTexasFight 9603]

That pitch Also not great 

They’ve matched our number of hits.

[Mo Horn 8899]

And were done here

[David Dennison 19117]

Well, it's not like we didn't see this coming.

[UTHornFan014 718]

I don't like this 10 run curse

[David Dennison 19117]

I hope cabowabo saw that.

[Guadaloopy 11039]

WTF, Tuck?   D has taken a HUGE step back.  

[Smax 3800]

Ok let's end this game

[Wulaw Horn 19233]

Great back pick decision there by Maldy. That’s the kind of veteran presence that makes a 570 ops preferable to a 780 ops 4 out of 5 nights. 
And Tuckers stellar defense continues. 
This team is amazing in many ways. 
their manager isn’t exactly a tactician out there stealing games. They play 3 shitty offensive players a night (at least) when they could play 1 or 0 if they really wanted to, the defense isn’t all that great, the bullpen has last 6 games already and we are on pace to win 95 games and I think most here expect us to win 100. 

[Rimbo 26420]

1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

Ain't even mad.

Still love that guy.

ok now I'm mad

[David Dennison 19117]

Barf.

[Slacks 6916]

59 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

we need to stop scoring 10+ runs 

Came to post this. I fully expected today to be one run outing. 

[Slacks 6916]

12 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Great back pick decision there by Maldy. That’s the kind of veteran presence that makes a 570 ops preferable to a 780 ops 4 out of 5 nights. 
And Tuckers stellar defense continues. 
This team is amazing in many ways. 
their manager isn’t exactly a tactician out there stealing games. They play 3 shitty offensive players a night (at least) when they could play 1 or 0 if they really wanted to, the defense isn’t all that great, the bullpen has last 6 games already and we are on pace to win 95 games and I think most here expect us to win 100. 

So, 100 it is. 

[David Dennison 19117]

The K column in the box score has a lot of numbers.

[Chuckie Finster 22759]

So goddamn tired of the Rangers somehow playing last place teams every fucking game.

[Wulaw Horn 19233]

15 minutes ago, Slacks said:

So, 100 it is. 

That’s always been my belief about this year. I bet the over at 97.5. 

[Planet Houston 4943]

I have an idea, Dusty 

 

[Wulaw Horn 19233]

6 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

I have an idea, Dusty 

 

That’s amazing. 

[tx 3 putt 77920]

48 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

I have an idea, Dusty 

 

 

i'd use matero 1st, maton 2nd

[perfectchaos007 6713]

We need to stop scoring 10+ runs. Automatic loss the next day.

[Hank Chinaski 6324]

11 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

So goddamn tired of the Rangers somehow playing last place teams every fucking game.

Beyond that, the Rangers as a team are running a smooth .334 BABIP right now. That’s not necessarily 100% about luck, but it’s mostly an indicator of luck, and .300 tends to be right around the league average every year (including this year). They’re unlikely to sustain that over an entire season, but they’ve already banked 2 months of it.

(Of course, a team’s BABIP is largely irrelevant when it posts a K/BB ratio of 16/1 in a given game. Good effort, fellas.)

[Wulaw Horn 19233]

11 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Beyond that, the Rangers as a team are running a smooth .334 BABIP right now. That’s not necessarily 100% about luck, but it’s mostly an indicator of luck, and .300 tends to be right around the league average every year (including this year). They’re unlikely to sustain that over an entire season, but they’ve already banked 2 months of it.

(Of course, a team’s BABIP is largely irrelevant when it posts a K/BB ratio of 16/1 in a given game. Good effort, fellas.)

HPU was garbage. With a good robot ump it would have been 13/3 in K/BB! 

[Rockethorn1978 6153]

Whoever our hitting coach is he needs to be docked some pay. Our offense sucks dick.

[HtownHorn 14915]

The offense will always be inconsistent when you play 2 black holes, and 1 or 2 other players struggle. This is why the team goes from 12 runs to 1 a lot. When everyone hits the team scores runs, when most of the lineup reverts to their historical averages while playing Abreu and Maldonado this team can look awful. Also, the hitting coaches on this team are trash.

Another issue is this team doesn't take walks at all. Last year they were 3rd in the AL in walks, this year they are 12th.

Edited June 7, 2023 by HtownHorn

[WBT 20735]

They must save the good coaching for Altuve and Alvarez

[Wulaw Horn 19233]

It you heard Dana Brown on SS today he was basically calling Dusty an idiot and saying that it’s all his fault these stupid lineup decisions are being made and he has no power to do anything about it. With all due respect. And for a guy that I think he respects. In the nicest way possible. But yeah- it was basically all everyone on here who complains about these decisions being completely validated. 

[The Dog 44180]

2 hours ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Beyond that, the Rangers as a team are running a smooth .334 BABIP right now. That’s not necessarily 100% about luck, but it’s mostly an indicator of luck, and .300 tends to be right around the league average every year (including this year). They’re unlikely to sustain that over an entire season, but they’ve already banked 2 months of it.

(Of course, a team’s BABIP is largely irrelevant when it posts a K/BB ratio of 16/1 in a given game. Good effort, fellas.)

that, losing deGrom, and their easy schedule means they are likely to regress pretty hard as the season goes on. 

and if they don't? well then tip your cap to them because they had a magical regular season. 

 

[Guadaloopy 11039]

33 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

 

Another issue is this team doesn't take walks at all. Last year they were 3rd in the AL in walks, this year they are 12th.