Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread

[Scraps 13,490]

Yainer wtf man. Worst AB of the season

[HtownHorn 14,340]

If Toronto wants to throw this game away I am here for it.

[UTexasFight 9,304]

We are facing a not good baseball team right now.

 

let’s make this comeback happen 

[Hornsbay22 452]

I can't believe how many balls some of how hitters swing at:  Diaz, Chas, Dubon, Meyers.......Altuve but he is allowed to.

[Scraps 13,490]

Ump thinks Greg Maddux is pitching

[Scraps 13,490]

Nut cuttin time

[tx 3 putt 75,521]

Get him home 

[Scraps 13,490]

Damn i thought that was gonna be gone

[HOOKEM4 4,948]

Umpire ready to go home. Wtf.

[Limp Brisket 542]

Okay…

[Scraps 13,490]

Dubons dead or what?

[UTexasFight 9,304]

Wanting lefties 

[David Dennison 17,800]

This might suck.

[Macklemore 2,856]

Come on Cabbage we just need you to get a hit.

[Scraps 13,490]

You have fucking got to pinch hit Dubon(a guy who actually puts the ball in play) for Loperfido unless I missed that Dubons dead

[UTexasFight 9,304]

Shitty time for loperfido and his K rate to come up to bat.

really needed anything other than that 

[Mitch Hedberg 2,090]

Fuck

[Wulaw Horn 18,919]

So fucking close for Peña and then we just have 2 non competitive AB’s. All Joey needed to do was roll over on it. Nope. 

[HtownHorn 14,340]

Espada once again just fucking sucks at in game managing.

[UTexasFight 9,304]

Jesus rotten cabbage 

[David Dennison 17,800]

Yep. That sucked.

[Wulaw Horn 18,919]

1 minute ago, Scraps said:

You have fucking got to pinch hit Dubon(a guy who actually puts the ball in play) for Loperfido unless I missed that Dubons dead

 

Just now, UTexasFight said:

Shitty time for loperfido and his K rate to come up to bat.

really needed anything other than that 

Dubon. Because yeah. And I’d have let Salazar hit for himself if Dubon got the guy over to third with one out. 

[Hornsbay22 452]

Big fuck off to loperfideo and cabbage

[HOOKEM4 4,948]

Dammit. Just a dinker boys. Everyone trying to hit a homerun. Next game.

[Honeysucklerose 955]

That was terrible situational hitting. The ole Espada special

[YChang 3,394]

Let’s win another series

[patrickdrinksbeer 787]

the cabbage AB was so fucking incompetent

[runthebone 7,894]

Arighetti did better than his Detroit start.  I think they would take him for Vlad straight up now.

 

[Wulaw Horn 18,919]

5 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Arighetti did better than his Detroit start.  I think they would take him for Vlad straight up now.

 

He’s not reliable yet. He just needs to keep the non competitive shit to no more than once every 4 or 5 times out. 

[tx 3 putt 75,521]

 

[WBT 20,278]

He's not going to make it with that k rate.

Springer was a year younger when he came up and ran a 33% k rate his first year.  The next two years he was around 24% and then has been 17-20% the 8 years since except for one "bad" year at 23%.

So it's possible to improve the k rate but I think George was an exception to the rule.

[tx 3 putt 75,521]

Get it back tomorrow 

[Wulaw Horn 18,919]

40 minutes ago, WBT said:

He's not going to make it with that k rate.

Springer was a year younger when he came up and ran a 33% k rate his first year.  The next two years he was around 24% and then has been 17-20% the 8 years since except for one "bad" year at 23%.

So it's possible to improve the k rate but I think George was an exception to the rule.

Absolutely. It’s an enticing skill set but usually fools gold. He cannot succeed as a big leaguer with a k rate that starts with a 3 and he’s probably not powerful enough to actually be a plus player with a rate over 25% or so. 

[Scraps 13,490]

I could handle the K rate this season so far if he would drop a bomb once in the other 8 ABs lol. His lack of power so far has been pretty disappointing. Needs to stary getting a hold of some shit

At least Gallo dropped bombs

[UTexasFight 9,304]

mariners 2-hit tonight by the Orioles

I knew the Mariners offense was one of the worst in baseball, but holy crap.

LF is the only position they are clearly better (and I suppose 1B considering the contributions—or lack thereof—of Albatross Abreu)

No wonder we’re only 3 back 

 

[patrickdrinksbeer 787]

i did not realize j-rod was having such a miserable season.

[Scraps 13,490]

 

[Gut Wagon 8,038]

Today maybe let's try not letting a clearly ineffective starter dig us a grave we can't climb out of. 

[Scraps 13,490]

oh we showed yesterday we can climb out of it, our leader just decided to go full retard once we got there.  

[HtownHorn 14,340]

Yeah, yesterday was another classic example of how this game is too much for Espada.

[UTexasFight 9,304]

Has Hunter been named POM yet?

[kevwun 15,336]

When the only other Astros pitchers to have a month like you are named Nolan Ryan and JR Richards, you done did something good.

[UTexasFight 9,304]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

Has Hunter been named POM yet?

Womp womp

 

Garrett Crochet, CWS, AL Pitcher of the Month

MLB’s strikeout leader followed a stellar May (0.93 ERA in five starts) with an outstanding June, pitching to a 1.91 ERA across six starts and striking out 56 hitters in just 37 2/3 innings. The White Sox left-hander had never started a game in the Minors or Majors before being named Chicago’s Opening Day starter, but Crochet has adjusted nicely to the role. On the season, Crochet has struck out 141 hitters across 101 1/3 innings and owns a 3.02 ERA

[tx 3 putt 75,521]

Bounce back win today would be nice 

maybe Tucker can finally start running ?

[Wild Bill 323]

3 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Womp womp

 

 

Garrett Crochet, CWS, AL Pitcher of the Month

MLB’s strikeout leader followed a stellar May (0.93 ERA in five starts) with an outstanding June, pitching to a 1.91 ERA across six starts and striking out 56 hitters in just 37 2/3 innings. The White Sox left-hander had never started a game in the Minors or Majors before being named Chicago’s Opening Day starter, but Crochet has adjusted nicely to the role. On the season, Crochet has struck out 141 hitters across 101 1/3 innings and owns a 3.02 ERA

WTF. Did they not get the data for Hunter to evaluate?

[We’reTexas 1,467]

3 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Womp womp

 

 

Garrett Crochet, CWS, AL Pitcher of the Month

MLB’s strikeout leader followed a stellar May (0.93 ERA in five starts) with an outstanding June, pitching to a 1.91 ERA across six starts and striking out 56 hitters in just 37 2/3 innings. The White Sox left-hander had never started a game in the Minors or Majors before being named Chicago’s Opening Day starter, but Crochet has adjusted nicely to the role. On the season, Crochet has struck out 141 hitters across 101 1/3 innings and owns a 3.02 ERA

[kevwun 15,336]

He's got better numbers in like every category.

Edited July 3 by kevwun

[kevwun 15,336]

Crochet has had a very good first half at least.  But it's still player of the month.

[Mitch Hedberg 2,090]

They can argue about it when they are teammates next month

[UTexasFight 9,304]

Brown: 5 starts, 31 IP, 4-0, 1.16 ERA, 36 Ks, 8 BBs, 0.936 WHIP

Crochet: 6 starts, 37.2 IP, 1-1, 1.91 ERA, 56 Ks, 6 BBs, 0.929 WHIP

 

Tie goes to the…loser?