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14 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Never left. Just got Dusty’s in 23 and lost a coin flip series in 24 for first time during the dynasty run. 
we gonna be good and you are going to see the pathway develop for competition through 29 or however long Yordan is signed for. 

Coin flip series? You really think the Astros were a playoff contending team in 2024?

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9 minutes ago, mycox said:

Coin flip series? You really think the Astros were a playoff contending team in 2024?

The answer to the latter can be no but not change the fact that a single 3 game series is a terrible way for consistently getting right who a better team is 

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Posted
47 minutes ago, mycox said:

Coin flip series? You really think the Astros were a playoff contending team in 2024?

Yes, most teams that make the playoffs are playoff contending.

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Posted
52 minutes ago, mycox said:

Coin flip series? You really think the Astros were a playoff contending team in 2024?

Yeah man.  Anyone who gets in can win it.  Rangers in 23. Braves in 21. Nationals in 19.  Dbacks in the world series. It might not be completely random in which 2 playoff teams win a best of 3, 5 or 7, but it's really damn close. If you get in it you can absolutely win it. 

Posted
1 hour ago, WBT said:

Yes, most teams that make the playoffs are playoff contending.

I'll give you that, but the Astros were just a slightly above average team playing in a shitty division.

Posted
1 hour ago, mycox said:

I'll give you that, but the Astros were just a slightly above average team playing in a shitty division.

I mean- from May 8 on last year which is 75% of the season the Astros had the best record in the AL and the second best record in all of baseball. 
rhe Astros were a horrific team for 6 weeks as they had Abreu and a couple starters actively sabotage the start- those guys cleaned up their acts and pitched well and they got rid of Abreu and played like what they were, one of the top 5 teams in baseball for the rest of the year. That bad start had them playing a stupid best of 3 series where they lost to the modern day Sandy Kofax by a run and then lost a game by a run where they had 4 or 5 smoked balls that landed 3 inches foul or were 110 mph piss rods hit right at someone. 
to say that team was barely above average does a disservice to them imo. To assign some sort of platonic viewpoint on a best 2 out of 3 series is really dumb. We got swept by last place teams every single year during our dynastic run. It’s baseball. Best 2 out of 3 says nothing about the quality of a team. 

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13 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I mean- from May 8 on last year which is 75% of the season the Astros had the best record in the AL and the second best record in all of baseball. 
rhe Astros were a horrific team for 6 weeks as they had Abreu  

 

espada and staff did a great job 

imo, they ran out of gas vs the tigers 

Posted
27 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Marc Lamont Hill Wtf GIF by Identity

Maybe you are new here, but every now and again I engage in a wee bit of hyperbole.  

I guess I could have just said the unanimous Cy Young winner and by far best pitcher in baseball last year. 

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Posted (edited)
28 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

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Dude 30 out of 30 votes is really good. Even. Better than the Blake Snell Cy young the year before. 
fuck- I see I typed baseball when I meant to say league. I don’t pay attention to a league the astros don’t play in. I always mess up some mundane detail. 

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22 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Dude 30 out of 30 votes is really good. Even. Better than the Blake Snell Cy young the year before. 
fuck- I see I typed baseball when I meant to say league. I don’t pay attention to a league the astros don’t play in. I always mess up some mundane detail. 

Look, the important thing here is that the face that dude makes in that gif is objectively hilarious. 

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Posted
Altuve's LF debut today.  I think he'll be a better hitter this year in the OF and end the year with 2400+ hits.
I will go over 2400...as long as no injury

So i will take that +
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Posted

Altuve played 6 innings and i dont think he was involved in one play in the field lol

I mean that would be ideal in real game, but yeah probably needs to get some shit hit to him

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Posted
2 hours ago, Scraps said:

Altuve played 6 innings and i dont think he was involved in one play in the field lol

I mean that would be ideal in real game, but yeah probably needs to get some shit hit to him
 

Which is, you know, why him being in Lf won’t be that big a problem. 

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Best realistic case scenario for Astros by WAR

C-6. Does plays like a 5 win all star and Caratini is good again for 1 WAR
1B- 3 WAR. He keeps doing what hes been doing
2B- 3 War- strict platoon gets to league average offense with gold glove caliber defense as every day 
SS- 4 war- Peña gets back his defensive groove when he was a GG w average offense
3B- 4- Paredes hits 35 or 40 HR’s as a dead pull hitter at MMP and continues to walk 
LF- 4 war. Altuve catches balls well and is 30 or 40% better than league average at plate
CF- 4 war. Chas is average against RHP and plays average defense/Jake is GG caliber on defense and mashes LHP
RF- 2 mashes lefties and Gammel or someone else is above average against RHP 
DH- 6- stays healthy all year and does Yordan things. 

Total- 36 War. On the way to winning 105 games as everything plays out well and the Astros are the best team in the league against LHP and top 5 or 7 against RHP as platoons work well for them, Altuve is fine in LF, Yainer becomes a star and Paredesoverlay chart becomes HR city at the ice box.

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27 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Best realistic case scenario for Astros by WAR

C-6. Does plays like a 5 win all star and Caratini is good again for 1 WAR
1B- 3 WAR. He keeps doing what hes been doing
2B- 3 War- strict platoon gets to league average offense with gold glove caliber defense as every day 
SS- 4 war- Peña gets back his defensive groove when he was a GG w average offense
3B- 4- Paredes hits 35 or 40 HR’s as a dead pull hitter at MMP and continues to walk 
LF- 4 war. Altuve catches balls well and is 30 or 40% better than league average at plate
CF- 4 war. Chas is average against RHP and plays average defense/Jake is GG caliber on defense and mashes LHP
RF- 2 mashes lefties and Gammel or someone else is above average against RHP 
DH- 6- stays healthy all year and does Yordan things. 

Total- 36 War. On the way to winning 105 games as everything plays out well and the Astros are the best team in the league against LHP and top 5 or 7 against RHP as platoons work well for them, Altuve is fine in LF, Yainer becomes a star and Paredesoverlay chart becomes HR city at the ice box.

Spit Take GIF

Posted
14 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Spit Take GIF

Just waiting for someone to lay out how we are going to finish 80-82 as a counterpoint. 
To be clear this isn’t a prediction of what will happen this is sort of best realistic case scenario. I’d expect 4 or 5 of these to more or less play out and 4 or 5 to be worse. 

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