2023 Houston Astros Thread

[Mez2 4,025]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

Roof closed game 1 and 2

 

Welcome to the Terrrordome

[UTexasFight 9,517]

1 minute ago, The Dog said:

 

Lol.

that reads like “MLB The Show cheat code activated. Verlander player rating increased to 99”

[Pimphand 5,814]

So far Kershaw, Verlander, & Valdez are the only posted starters....

[kevwun 15,811]

I hope that's true, but he had a random start several weeks ago where he threw harder also and then it dropped back down to 93/94 in his next one.

[Pimphand 5,814]

1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

All told the schedule is fine...

Gm 1: Come on after OU game DGAF about the NL markets
Gm 2: Prime time Sunday night baseball
Gm 3: Given the number of LatAm players on the team and their penchant for hating the cold I'm ok
Gm 4: See above
Gm 5: IDMAS hopefully we don't need this slot and leave it for Balt/Tex

[Seasick Sailor 3,747]

 

[UTexasFight 9,517]

3 minutes ago, Seasick Sailor said:

 

Dusty rule: we’ll give him Saturday off to make sure. And see how he feels for Sunday. 

[Seasick Sailor 3,747]

 

[TexasHooch 5,122]

Bailey Ober will be starting for the Twins game 1. Someone start a series thread.

 

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

Just now, TexasHooch said:

Bailey Ober will be starting for the Twins game 1. Someone start a series thread.

 

this is the series thread 

[UTexasFight 9,517]

8 years ago.

what a ride it’s been 

 

 

 

[UTPhil2006 3,807]

21 minutes ago, Seasick Sailor said:

 

Dusty said yesterday that they didn’t know what they could get from him. Fucking Dusty is a shit manager and also a shit liar. 

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

Game 1 - Verlander (13-8, 3.22) vs Ober (8-6, 3.43)

Game 2 - Valdez (12-11, 3.45) vs Lopez (11-8, 3.66)

Game 3 - Javier (10-5, 4.56) vs Gray (8-8, 2.79)

[Pimphand 5,814]

Just now, tx 3 putt said:

Game 1 - Verlander (13-8, 3.22) vs Ober (8-6, 3.43)

Game 2 - Valdez (12-11, 3.45) vs Lopez (11-8, 3.66)

Game 3 - Javier (10-5, 4.56) vs Gray (8-8, 2.79)

We are going to need to turn the 2023 MMP mojo around 

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

It’s going to be a tight series

we’ll go as fas as our pitching takes us

Edited October 6, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[UTexasFight 9,517]

Damn gray finished 8-8?

I know w/L is a garbage stat but that is surprising to me 

but admittedly i didn’t pay much attention to him after the first month or 2 when he was dominating us 

[formermav43 4,606]

1 hour ago, Ojo Rojo said:

I am mystified by the Machete over Diaz and literally anyone over Chas lineups.  However, it is hard to argue with the results.  Between giant douche and turd sandwich, I pick Dusty.

Diaz was worth about 3 WAR more than Maldonado by both fangraphs and baseball reference despite having fewer plate appearances, in a division won by a tiebreaker on the last day of the season. Simply flipping the number of games started at catcher (117! vs 42) is likely enough to have made a difference in the standings by a couple of games.

Its beating a dead horse, I know-but it’s not at all hard to argue with those results. 

[Pimphand 5,814]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

Damn gray finished 8-8?

I know w/L is a garbage stat but that is surprising to me 

but admittedly i didn’t pay much attention to him after the first month or 2 when he was dominating us 

Do you not 1987 Nolan Ryan?

Led the league in ERA & Strikeouts only player in history to do so and not win the Cy Young because his W/L was 8-16

[dr99 560]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

8 years ago.

what a ride it's been

 

Yainer?

[UTexasFight 9,517]

1 hour ago, formermav43 said:

Diaz was worth about 3 WAR more than Maldonado by both fangraphs and baseball reference despite having fewer plate appearances, in a division won by a tiebreaker on the last day of the season. Simply flipping the number of games started at catcher (117! vs 42) is likely enough to have made a difference in the standings by a couple of games.

Its beating a dead horse, I know-but it’s not at all hard to argue with those results. 

And you know it’s going to make a difference in the playoffs…just a matter of when, I fear… and whether it’s in the game we’re actually eliminated or early in a series.

 

I haven’t decide how I’m going to react when that happens, but if goes 0-4 with a GIDP and 2 Ks plus 0 CS and 1 or 2 passed balls, the probability of a remote going through the TV is going to look like one of those probability line charts that spikes to 99.9% at the very end

[dr99 560]

Can't wait to see Maldonado catch in Minnesota again.

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/martin-maldonado-has-trouble-with-shadows-in-loss-to-twins

[UTexasFight 9,517]

8 minutes ago, dr99 said:

Can't wait to see Maldonado catch in Minnesota again.

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/martin-maldonado-has-trouble-with-shadows-in-loss-to-twins

By the time the third inning rolled around, shadows began creeping from home plate toward the pitcher’s mound, making it a difficult afternoon to see the baseball -- for both the hitters and catchers.

 

April 7: gametime: 3:17, sunset 7:48

Oct 10: gametime: 3:07, sunset 6:45

idk how exactly how earth axis and shit works in Minneapolis in April relative to Oct but all else being equal, seems shadows will be creeping across home plate right around first pitch Tuesday.

hold on to your butts 

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

That day game in Minni is going to be nasty 

[Pimphand 5,814]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

That day game in Minni is going to be nasty 

We have 2 but at least the next one starts 2 hours earlier.

[Scraps 13,570]

Yep was about to come here and post this cause i was rewatching through the games i went to up there in April and remembered it is the same start time for that away game coming up.

Damn Pena just hit a homer....would be nice to see one of those soon

[Scraps 13,570]

Game 1 - Verlander (13-8, 3.22) vs Ober (8-6, 3.43)

Game 2 - Valdez (12-11, 3.45) vs Lopez (11-8, 3.66)

Game 3 - Javier (10-5, 4.56) vs Gray (8-8, 2.79)

Ober over Joe Ryan seems like an odd choice

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

1 minute ago, Scraps said:

4 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Game 1 - Verlander (13-8, 3.22) vs Ober (8-6, 3.43)

Game 2 - Valdez (12-11, 3.45) vs Lopez (11-8, 3.66)

Game 3 - Javier (10-5, 4.56) vs Gray (8-8, 2.79)

Ober over Joe Ryan seems like an odd choice

Ill guess that Ryan will back him up out of the BP 

[Scraps 13,570]

I mean Ryan had a rough last start, and probably a worse overall season than Ober so not surprising in that way.....but in the way that they were gonna let Ryan start a do or die Game 3 if they had lost game 2 and now bump him for a game 1 lol

[Uncle Boobs 1,248]

Where we thinking best spot tomorrow morning to watch TX-OU before heading into Minute Maid?

[Fudge Nuggets 19,209]

On 10/5/2023 at 1:44 PM, Planet Houston said:

No, MLB doesn’t get involved until the WS

They made us open the roof in the ALCS last year.  Remember the Bregman HR / Judge fly out bitching and moaning from jonboy and the other losers?

[Fudge Nuggets 19,209]

6 hours ago, Mez2 said:

Welcome to the Terrrordome

Come on down...

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

26 minutes ago, Uncle Boobs said:

Where we thinking best spot tomorrow morning to watch TX-OU before heading into Minute Maid?

cobos or little Woodrow’s 

 

 

 

50 minutes ago, Scraps said:

5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Game 1 - Verlander (13-8, 3.22) vs Ober (8-6, 3.43)

Game 2 - Valdez (12-11, 3.45) vs Lopez (11-8, 3.66)

Game 3 - Javier (10-5, 4.56) vs Gray (8-8, 2.79)

Ober over Joe Ryan seems like an odd choice

we need to knock out ober in the first 

Edited October 7, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[Uncle Boobs 1,248]

Was thinking the same. 10-4.

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

1 minute ago, Uncle Boobs said:

Was thinking the same. 10-4.

 
pitch 25 is great, solid food. Don’t open a tab, can be a bitch to close out (long lines)

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

Soon boys, soon 

 

[henrygandorf 29,194]

anybody got a brick wall i can borrow?

[Halohal 498]

Go Astros 

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18 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

I am mystified by the Machete over Diaz and literally anyone over Chas lineups.  However, it is hard to argue with the results.  Between giant douche and turd sandwich, I pick Dusty.

Barry Switzer is a Super Bowl winning coach.  It wasn't because of his coaching.  That's not to say Dusty sucks to that degree, because he is one of the alltime winningest coaches in baseball.  It's the deliberate obstinate bullshit that people are sick of.  The Astros would win a shit-ton of games with my dogs as the managers and bench coaches.  The dogs would probably fill out better lineup cards too.

For a team who took analytics and data to the forefront of baseball, it's tough as fans to have seen those results and then watch an old guy( hey, I am one too!) just fucking wing it in the face of what the numbers support.

Edited October 7, 2023 by slorch

[UTPhil2006 3,807]

18 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Game 1 - Verlander (13-8, 3.22) vs Ober (8-6, 3.43)

Game 2 - Valdez (12-11, 3.45) vs Lopez (11-8, 3.66)

Game 3 - Javier (10-5, 4.56) vs Gray (8-8, 2.79)

Another trash decision by Crusty Faker 

[Mez2 4,025]

1 hour ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Another trash decision by Crusty Faker 

Crusty Faker, classic.

 

Good one, Phil

[Gourmand 7,774]

 

[TonyTexas 10,519]

1 hour ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Another trash decision by Crusty Faker 

Now you’re just being dumb. 

[Gourmand 7,774]

No Graveman is a surprise

[Gourmand 7,774]

 

[runthebone 8,024]

Just looked up Korey Lee

 

Didn’t know OPS+ could go to -22

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

[runthebone 8,024]

Oh my god....Chazzzz in center

[Js1 85,450]

6 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Oh my god....Chazzzz in center

No Diaz but I’ll take it 

[tx 3 putt 77,241]

That’s a good line up, let’s go win game 1

[We’reTexas 1,473]