2023 Houston Astros Thread

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

Unpopular opinion post, so feel free to skip it ….

We have 93 games left to play this year, 57.4% of the season (and 3 series vs the Rangers). There’s still a lot baseball left and we are well in striking range of first. 
 

Dusty and the staff have done a great job with this roster (AAAA players). We are down 4 starters from last year, and posting some very good pitching numbers. Pitching can always improve, that whip needs to come down for sure. The Altuve injury (he’s still not 100%), bregman and Abreu were dead weight the first two months. The brantley and lmj set backs.
 

Diaz is coming along very nicely. I like the Jake / Chas / Julks rotation, based on match ups. Dubon stepping up huge. OF defense can still improve, it’s a weak spot. You hope that hitting gets better, bregman and Tucker need to pick it up. Abreu needs to keep trending up.

for as much ‘bad’ as we’ve had, we’ve had a lot of good to balance it out. Getting urquidy and brantley back will be a huge shot to the arm. At this point, I’m in different on a move. It’ll be a sellers market. 

heal up, stay close to first and make a run. this team needs to be a rolling ball of butcher knives in sept.

[Rockethorn1978 6,087]

I definitely expect this front office to make moves that help us win a WS and not sit on prospects that might not pan out so we can be competitive in 2026. 

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

30 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

I definitely expect this front office to make moves that help us win a WS and not sit on prospects that might not pan out so we can be competitive in 2026. 

I’ll be very curious to see who’s going to be available 

Edited June 16, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[Scraps 13,561]

So putt doesn't want to win the WS i see

[Wulaw Horn 19,073]

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

#1 era 

#6 whip

that’s entire pitching staff. We’re not scoring runs to support some excellent pitching. Bullpen stats aren’t too far off those numbers. 1.27 whip is avg, like it’s been said need to on walks and hits. 

Yep. Collectively the staff has been excellent and much better than we had any right to expect with all the injuries. If the offense/manager would remove his head from his/it’s ass we would be a 100 win team again imo. 
Willingly choosing to give so many PA to 3 of the worst 15 offensive players in the league, when we have clearly better options sitting on the bench so that they can play (too much) isn’t something that a team can overcome unless they have 4 all star type guys having all star type seasons. This year we have 1 all star type having an all star season and he’s only going to play 120 games )he said- hopefully) 

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

J. Abreu: $19.5M, negative-1.0 WAR
Montero: $11.5M, negative-0.4 WAR
Brantley: $12M, 0.0 WAR

😭😭😭😭

[Wulaw Horn 19,073]

Just now, tx 3 putt said:

J. Abreu: $19.5M, negative-1.0 WAR
Montero: $11.5M, negative-0.4 WAR
Brantley: $12M, 0.0 WAR

😭😭😭😭

Yep

loved it

hated it 

hated it. 
 

I was 2/3 in an off season the Astros were a hard core 0/3. The Montero and Brantley moves were horribly dumb for the exact a d predictable reasons we said they were dumb (Montero 1 flukey year- Bradley old and major injury and no due diligence to see if he’d actually be ready). 
to be fair to the Astros there were some people who didn’t like the 3rd year for Abreu or wanted him for 16 instead of 20 but nobody thought he’d be one of the worst players in baseball through the first 70 games. 

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

We could be paying 3 scrubs the min for the same results 

[Wulaw Horn 19,073]

14 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

We could be paying 3 scrubs the min for the same results 

Yep. That’s why I hated the Montero and Brantley signings. Those you could see it playing out that way. Nobody had Abreu as worst player in majors this year. 

[TonyTexas 10,515]

1 hour ago, Scraps said:

So putt doesn't want to win the WS i see

He didn’t say that. But you did. 
 

 

On 6/14/2023 at 4:05 PM, Scraps said:

On 6/14/2023 at 3:59 PM, UTHornFan014 said:

There are few players I hate more than that bitch Cody Bellinger

Yep...i would rather not win than have Bellinger win a WS with Houston. Fuck that.

 

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

No de la Cruz tonight ?

[dr99 560]

43 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

No de la Cruz tonight ?

I bet the Reds version of Surly is bashing David Bell for sitting him

[UTexasFight 9,454]

Taking the family to the game tomorrow.

Going to be a full house.

how early are the bobbleheads usually gone?

[UTexasFight 9,454]

Whoa

battle of the 4.01 ERAs tomorrow.

hopefully Bielak can hold them to 4 even 

[Gut Wagon 8,079]

5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Unpopular opinion post, so feel free to skip it ….

We have 93 games left to play this year, 57.4% of the season (and 3 series vs the Rangers). There’s still a lot baseball left and we are well in striking range of first. 
 

Dusty and the staff have done a great job with this roster (AAAA players). We are down 4 starters from last year, and posting some very good pitching numbers. Pitching can always improve, that whip needs to come down for sure. The Altuve injury (he’s still not 100%), bregman and Abreu were dead weight the first two months. The brantley and lmj set backs.
 

Diaz is coming along very nicely. I like the Jake / Chas / Julks rotation, based on match ups. Dubon stepping up huge. OF defense can still improve, it’s a weak spot. You hope that hitting gets better, bregman and Tucker need to pick it up. Abreu needs to keep trending up.

for as much ‘bad’ as we’ve had, we’ve had a lot of good to balance it out. Getting urquidy and brantley back will be a huge shot to the arm. At this point, I’m in different on a move. It’ll be a sellers market. 

heal up, stay close to first and make a run. this team needs to be a rolling ball of butcher knives in sept.

Hope you're right about a coming surge.

I question why any sane person would have expected much out of LMJ again. Also, as hard as I'm pulling for our known stud hitters to get back to past levels of glory, I'm just not feeling it that much.

Last year I said Altuve was the key, and except for the postseason, he was. We won despite his October, mainly due to insane starting pitching and a couple hot hitters. Pena, Tucker and Bregman all must turn it on pronto, regardless of what we get out of Abreu. And a certain reliever or too had best unwedge their heads. These past two games have been debacles. 

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

13 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Taking the family to the game tomorrow.

Going to be a full house.

how early are the bobbleheads usually gone?

First 10,000 ?

you better be in line before the gates open. LF gate is always empty 

[CycleTex87 2,970]

Is it automatically a given that the team goes all in at the deadline to win the WS this year?  Are World Series titles like the time value of money, meaning now is better than future?  Do you mortgage the future to win back to back?

[WBT 20,580]

I don't think we have the prospects to win the bidding for any real difference makers anyway.

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

Just now, WBT said:

I don't think we have the prospects to win the bidding for any real difference makers anyway.

 

hunter brown and drew gilbert, but I don't see us moving on from either player 

[Scraps 13,561]

I don't know who comes up with these Julia poll questions but they are dumb as fuck

[WBT 20,580]

Maldonado is now 1 for his last 20

[Scraps 13,561]

Safe.... move along

[Scraps 13,561]

Man this shit looks like groundhog day

Score some runs fuckers

[Wulaw Horn 19,073]

Fucking Peña. 

27 minutes ago, WBT said:

Maldonado is now 1 for his last 20

He’s on a heater. Make sure you play him every single day for a month. 

[WBT 20,580]

Damnit JP

 Now maybe score some runs?

[Scraps 13,561]

Yall keep talkin shit about Machete. He stood there like a fucking all star on that walk

Even though that was a K

[WBT 20,580]

3 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Yall keep talkin shit about Machete. He stood there like a fucking all star on that walk

Even though that was a K

Gotta make them pay for that

[Scraps 13,561]

Doobie making his way back down to his .250 avg and 75ops+. I give him until trade deadline.

[Scraps 13,561]

He needs to be scoreboard watching our shitty 0 run offense

[runthebone 7,989]

Diaz with a 411 ft out and Altuve with a 407 ft out

[Gut Wagon 8,079]

Hit it hard and far...for zilch. Ugh. 

[WBT 20,580]

Spencer Steer should have gone to Texas

[runthebone 7,989]

Hmmm, feels like that's the ballgame, but hope not.

[Wulaw Horn 19,073]

3 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Diaz with a 411 ft out and Altuve with a 407 ft out

Isn’t it 408 to CF?  How did that 411 out happen?  

[Honeysucklerose 990]

Ballgame

[David Dennison 18,875]

Our offense makes me sad.

[Scraps 13,561]

Our offense makes me sad.

Don't worry Brantley is about to hit on the field! Lulz

[runthebone 7,989]

5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Isn’t it 408 to CF?  How did that 411 out happen?  

Not sure...

 

looks like France is turning into a pumpkin.

[David Dennison 18,875]

We are a third place baseball team.

[HtownHorn 14,690]

Maybe playing a MI in the OF is a stupid decision, Dusty.

[WBT 20,580]

Another good start for France.  Too bad we're wasting it.

[runthebone 7,989]

You guys ready for Maldonado to hit this inning?

[WBT 20,580]

Chazzy Fizz!

1 minute ago, runthebone said:

You guys ready for Maldonado to hit this inning?

fucking malpractice

[runthebone 7,989]

Mother fucker

[David Dennison 18,875]

4 minutes ago, runthebone said:

You guys ready for Maldonado to hit this inning?

I mean, it just makes sense to hit him in these tight, late inning situations. 

[Scraps 13,561]

Can i get a doobie walk and tuve bomb?

[tx 3 putt 76,980]

7 minutes ago, WBT said:

Another good start for France.  Too bad we're wasting it.

 very very good start 

[Scraps 13,561]

Lulz trash

[David Dennison 18,875]

Pitching is not our problem.