Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread

[David Dennison 18,945]

Four hits.

Well done, team.

Win the series tomorrow.

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

Froze him

Win this series tomorrow 

[Honeysucklerose 990]

Screwed up my Saturday. Morons

[WBT 20,655]

well shit, lost a chance to pickup a game on both

[Guadaloopy 11,012]

That was not fun to watch.  Get ‘em tomorrow, boys.  At least they didn’t lose ground in this shit heap of a division.  

[Welch 635]

I keep hearing people say that the Astros' bats are fine but they're worried about the pitching.  I don't get it.

Since the last game of the series at NYY, we've played 16 games and only had two bad pitching performances: Javier's first game back from injury in Detroit and Framber's meltdown against the Angels.

In those 16 games we've had six bad offensive performances in terms of runs: 2, 2 (in 10 innings), 3, 2, 1, and 1 (today).

And I know sample size and everything, but even when the pitching was atrocious earlier in the season, it's not like we were scoring in bunches.  The Braves/Nats/Cubs stretch, we scored 1, 2, 4 (10 innings), 5, 4 (10 innings), 0, 2, 3, 1.

I guess I'm spoiled.  If this is one of the best hitting teams in baseball, I'd hate to root for one of the worst.

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

Help is on the way ….

José Abreu said he’s flying to Seattle tomorrow. He’ll presumably rejoin the team prior to Monday’s series opener against the Mariners.

[UTexasFight 9,523]

I miss Ross Stripling 

[WBT 20,655]

10 minutes ago, Welch said:

I keep hearing people say that the Astros' bats are fine but they're worried about the pitching.  I don't get it.

Since the last game of the series at NYY, we've played 16 games and only had two bad pitching performances: Javier's first game back from injury in Detroit and Framber's meltdown against the Angels.

In those 16 games we've had six bad offensive performances in terms of runs: 2, 2 (in 10 innings), 3, 2, 1, and 1 (today).

And I know sample size and everything, but even when the pitching was atrocious earlier in the season, it's not like we were scoring in bunches.  The Braves/Nats/Cubs stretch, we scored 1, 2, 4 (10 innings), 5, 4 (10 innings), 0, 2, 3, 1.

I guess I'm spoiled.  If this is one of the best hitting teams in baseball, I'd hate to root for one of the worst.

We're the 3rd best hitting team.  We've had some shitty sequencing.

[David Dennison 18,945]

1 minute ago, WBT said:

We're the 3rd best hitting team.  We've had some shitty sequencing.

Eh, it happens. 

Just win series.

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

9 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I miss Ross Stripling 

Twilight zone was awesome 

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

 

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

He’s ready !!!!

 

[ChickenSandwich 9,849]

Bregman excited someone in the lineup will suck more. 

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

19 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Bregman excited someone in the lineup will suck more. 

he needs to slide down the order 

[Wulaw Horn 19,147]

2 hours ago, Honeysucklerose said:

So sad what Alvarez has become. Awful

Almost positive he’s hurt and trying to fight through it. 

[HtownHorn 14,763]

3 hours ago, WBT said:

We're the 3rd best hitting team.  We've had some shitty sequencing.

We are shitty in RISP and moving runners along, we are also a very bad baserunning team. Add those things together and we get men on base but don't score them.

[Welch 635]

3 hours ago, WBT said:

We're the 3rd best hitting team.  We've had some shitty sequencing.

Fair.

But I still I don’t get the whole “I’m not concerned about this thing (not scoring any runs) that happens multiple times every week… I’m more concerned about this other thing (pitching) that has actually been pretty consistent for the past few weeks and hopefully should get even better as everyone gets healthy.”

[HtownHorn 14,763]

27 minutes ago, Welch said:

Fair.

But I still I don’t get the whole “I’m not concerned about this thing (not scoring any runs) that happens multiple times every week… I’m more concerned about this other thing (pitching) that has actually been pretty consistent for the past few weeks and hopefully should get even better as everyone gets healthy.”

The offense is a real concern. Altuve, Bregman, and Alvarez are all in prolonged slumps. Diaz is suffering from sophomore slump, and McCormick has been injured and pretty unremarkable when he has played. That's not even counting relying on one of the worst 1B tandems in the league.

Edited May 26 by HtownHorn

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

36 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

The offense is a real concern. Altuve, Bregman, and Alvarez are all in prolonged slumps. Diaz is suffering from sophomore slump, and McCormick has been injured and pretty unremarkable when he has played. That's not even counting relying on one of the worst 1B tandems in the league.

Offense you say ????

 

[Macklemore 2,873]

 

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

 

[LCHorn 2,630]

Granted no one has invested $60m in me with $40m still left to go, but if I sucked at my job I really doubt my PIP would would be nearly so full of support and encouragement as Abreu’s seems to have been…

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

Crane owes him a lot of money, I’m pulling for him to just hit .250 consistently and play better defense. Being a solid combo at first with singeleton

crying and bitching is just wasting time, until crane has had enough 

[WBT 20,655]

I'm pulling for the dfa asap

[UTexasFight 9,523]

I’m resigned to the fact we’re going to have to watch him struggle with staying above the Maldonado line until the All Star Break …and just hope the 10% of the time he succeeds it’s with RISP when the rest of the team can’t and the 90% of the time he doesn’t, it’s with no one on and 0 or 2 outs. 

Edited May 26 by UTexasFight

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

8 minutes ago, WBT said:

I'm pulling for the dfa asap

wish in one hand, shit into the other 

guess which one feels up first 

[Scraps 13,570]

Crane owes him a lot of money, I’m pulling for him to just hit .250 consistently and play better defense. Being a solid combo at first with singeleton
crying and bitching is just wasting time, until crane has had enough 

Lmao .250. Yeah right

[Scraps 13,570]

Play loperfido asshole

[tx 3 putt 77,345]

I, along with his sister has the sad. Was expecting to see him his last day with the club

[dr99 560]

[runthebone 8,030]

12 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

runthebone is also humble enough to refer to runthebone in the third person.

[Mitch Hedberg 2,090]

Textbook clean up hitter.

[David Dennison 18,945]

You really like to see your clean up man have the lowest OPS in the lineup.

[WBT 20,655]

Run fat boy

[David Dennison 18,945]

Dreadful.

[HtownHorn 14,763]

This team plays an extrememly boring brand of baseball. Just pray for the 3 run homer.

[Limp Brisket 546]

Nasty

[WBT 20,655]

Stick'em looking good early.  Explain to me why he's on a 80 pitch count?

[runthebone 8,030]

Sitting behind home plate, and Blanco's slider looks like it had a great spin rate today.  Pounding the zone.  Fuck the As.

[UTexasFight 9,523]

7 minutes ago, WBT said:

Stick'em looking good early.  Explain to me why he's on a 80 pitch count?

Cause that’s all he needs for the CG?

[runthebone 8,030]

Glad he's hitting cleanup

[runthebone 8,030]

So many LOB

[WBT 20,655]

Lulz at Springer and Correa still in the top 5 in rbi against Oakland among actuve players

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Bregman whiffs

[Rip76 4,947]

🗑️ 

[Halohal 502]

Missed opportunity 

[WBT 20,655]

Come on gold glove.  That's 2 in 2 days.

[Scraps 13,570]

Bunting is hard

[dr99 560]

23 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Sitting behind home plate, and Blanco's slider looks like it had a great spin rate today.  Pounding the zone.  Fuck the As.

It's weird he can still pitch well without the stickiest glove in the history of baseball according to that ump.