2023 Houston Astros Thread

[tx 3 putt 77300]

How can we be leading with runs per game since the all star break, yet (per Astro surly baseball experts) fielding the worst lineups in the history of baseball

 

Edited August 19, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[Guest]

Could be leading by more?

[Scraps 13570]

Lolwut

[Limp Brisket 546]

1999 base running errors, too.

[tx 3 putt 77300]

Altuve thinking about hit #2000 ?

[Rip76 4947]

He had to be thinking there were already two outs.

[tx 3 putt 77300]

2 minutes ago, slorch said:

Could be leading by more?

so the line ups have been working ?

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

so the line ups have been working ?

 

The standings say no.

 

2023 MLB Standings After The All Star Break (Jul 14 - Aug 18) Season In Progress

	Team	Record	Streak	RPG	RPG Allowed	Run Differential
1	Los Angeles Dodgers	23-9	L1	5.84	3.88	+63
2	Seattle Mariners	22-11	W4	4.76	3.91	+28
3	Texas Rangers	20-11	L2	5.42	3.94	+46
4	Baltimore Orioles	21-12	W1	4.58	4.12	+15
5	Houston Astros	20-12	L1	5.69	4.47	+39
	Chicago Cubs	20-12	L1	6.16	5.03	+36
7	Washington Nationals	20-13	W3	5.21	5.18	+1
8	Atlanta Braves	19-13	W4	6.47	4.44	+65
	Minnesota Twins	19-13	W1	5.16	4.62	+17
10	Philadelphia Phillies	18-15	L1	5.03	4.21	+27

Edited August 19, 2023 by slorch

[UTPhil2006 3809]

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

so the line ups have been working ?

 

No?

[tx 3 putt 77300]

3 minutes ago, slorch said:

The standings say no.

 

2023 MLB Standings After The All Star Break (Jul 14 - Aug 18) Season In Progress

	Team	Record	Streak	RPG	RPG Allowed	Run Differential
1	Los Angeles Dodgers	23-9	L1	5.84	3.88	+63
2	Seattle Mariners	22-11	W4	4.76	3.91	+28
3	Texas Rangers	20-11	L2	5.42	3.94	+46
4	Baltimore Orioles	21-12	W1	4.58	4.12	+15
5	Houston Astros	20-12	L1	5.69	4.47	+39
	Chicago Cubs	20-12	L1	6.16	5.03	+36
7	Washington Nationals	20-13	W3	5.21	5.18	+1
8	Atlanta Braves	19-13	W4	6.47	4.44	+65
	Minnesota Twins	19-13	W1	5.16	4.62	+17
10	Philadelphia Phillies	18-15	L1	5.03	4.21	+27

 

well it takes more than hitting to win

avg Over 5 a game tells me, hitting isn’t holding us down 

[Honeysucklerose 990]

Son of a

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

well it takes more than hitting to win

avg Over 5 a game tells me, hitting isn’t holding us down 

I'm mostly just fucking around.

That being said, why not do the best the team can do?  That's the root of the frustration.  Fuck stats in this context.

[UTPhil2006 3809]

Wtf are you doing Dusty that bounced 

[TonyTexas 10521]

Just now, UTPhil2006 said:

Wtf are you doing Dusty that bounced 

Dusty doesn’t make that call. All managers rely on their video crew upstairs 

[Gut Wagon 8086]

Alternating double-digit scoring games with getting held to 3 or fewer is how you average quite a few runs and yet still lose quite a few games. Few staffs these days pitch well enough to win many of the latter. 

[UTPhil2006 3809]

1 minute ago, TonyTexas said:

Dusty doesn’t make that call. All managers rely on their video crew upstairs 

Well they’re equally dumb then. 

[David Dennison 18944]

4 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Wtf are you doing Dusty that bounced 

No, it didn't.

[Rip76 4947]

Ha, and the rangers got their ass beat already.

[UTPhil2006 3809]

8 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

No, it didn't.

100% did 

[Rip76 4947]

Omg

[David Dennison 18944]

Well, that's just great.

[Honeysucklerose 990]

Jake Meyers blows

[Wulaw Horn 19146]

Well fuck me. Getting our pussies pounded again. This sucks. 

[Rip76 4947]

Fucking A.

Im hearing Bennie Hill.

[David Dennison 18944]

2 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

100% did 

It bounced, but it was in his glove. It didn't bounce off the ground.

Edited August 19, 2023 by David Dennison

[cabowabo 4507]

We suck

[Overlord 366]

Dude, what the fuck is going on right now?

[David Dennison 18944]

1 minute ago, Overlord said:

Dude, what the fuck is going on right now?

We have a manager and front office who have decided that it's not yet time to start playing our best players.

[Overlord 366]

Looks like JP is going to be a game 2 pitcher. 

[David Dennison 18944]

Just now, Overlord said:

Looks like JP is going to be a game 2 pitcher. 

Assuming we make the playoffs.

[dr99 560]

When pitchers are supposed to bear down and get out of an inning, Framber panics as soon as there is trouble and lets things snowball 

[David Dennison 18944]

Start with making Diaz the every day catcher. 

[Wishbone 4771]

4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

We have a manager and front office who have decided that it's not yet time to start playing our best players.

Going with this ^

[UTPhil2006 3809]

7 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

It bounced, but it was in his glove. It didn't bounce off the ground.

[David Dennison 18944]

That's in his glove.

[TonyTexas 10521]

What other available players should be playing? Julks, Hensley, Singleton?

[David Dennison 18944]

Just now, TonyTexas said:

What other available players should be playing? Julks, Hensley, Singleton?

I'd put Singleton at first and take Maldonado out of the lineup.

[David Dennison 18944]

Oh, look, it's our backup catcher hitting his 17th HR of the season.

I wonder how many he would have if he played every day.

[UTPhil2006 3809]

Yanier off tomorrow confirmed

[elfenix 34331]

yanier!

(app audio rejoined with that ball already in the air, annoying)

[Wulaw Horn 19146]

I’m going to the game tomorrow with my kids. If yainer isn’t catching Brown I’m literally going down into the dugout and slapping Dusty around. 
it’s absurd and disgusting. 

[David Dennison 18944]

What a joke.

[Gut Wagon 8086]

35 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

We have a manager and front office who have decided that it's not yet time to start playing our best players.

I think that's the most optimistically it can be put. Any other scenario is even more grim. 

[Overlord 366]

What in the hell happened to last year’s “Mr. Quality Starts”?

Did he spend the whole offseason partying in Cabo?

[Wulaw Horn 19146]

What a beatdown it is to watch Framber the last two months minus one shining moment. 

[Rip76 4947]

He needs to go back to that baseball shrink.

[Smax 3800]

I take it Framber and Rodriguez are friends

[Scraps 13570]

God dammit Diaz

[Limp Brisket 546]

Lol he really is a head case.

[David Dennison 18944]

LOL