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  On 6/30/2019 at 9:08 PM, UTexasFight said:

15-12 June that included losing 9 of 12 during one stretch

I’ll take it

Haven’t had a losing record in a month since Aug 2017... and we got JV at the last second of that month, so did we really lose?

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That's pretty damn good considering that we have been playing without a SS, and Springer and Altuve missed most of the month. 

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  On 6/30/2019 at 10:07 PM, tx 3 putt said:
Lot of surely posters calling into the post game radio show :
ton of Tyler white hate
someone asking if we should trade Correa for Schertzer 
Another asking who we could trade white for 
Tyler still having a hard time keeping his slugging percentage above his OBP... Even with the run of doubles he had a week ago
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  On 7/1/2019 at 5:54 AM, tx 3 putt said:

That’s probably why he’s stress eating and gaining weight ?

seriously, he needs to trip on the stairs in Colorado and get on that season long IL before he’s dfa’d 

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He is going to unleash his power at Coors.  You'll see.  On the other hand, that is a very Doritos-laden state. 

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He gives about 1 per game.
...And is playing in a league that’s like playing at Coors Field every night.
Yeah, he may give up 3 or 4, but keep the walks down like he has all year and limit them to solo shots.

Really really hope Yordan is good to go to start one or both games. Need his RBI bat in the lineup. If he and Yuli can’t go, this is gonna be ugly:

Springer RF
Altuve 2B
Bregman 3B
Brantley LF
White 1B
Chirinos C
Marisnick CF
Straw SS
Urquidy P

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Urquidy has the third highest K%-BB% in the PCL this season (min 30 IP).  Big K% but he's also had a very good BB% throughout his minor league career.  Legit MORP potential and he wasn't even an Astros top 30 prospect last season.  

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Kaplan on the pitching plan in the immediate future and also the noose tightening on White/Kemp.
The 40 man figures to look a lot different on July 31 than it does on July 1.

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Righthander Jose Urquidy is ascending the system and adding his name to this growing list of Astros' upper-level pitching depth that also includes Forrest Whitley, J.B. Bukauskas and Corbin Martin.

Urquidy, who changed his preferred name from Jose Luis Hernandez this season, was the Opening Day starter for Double-A Corpus Christi and earned a quick promotion to Triple-A Round Rock after 33 innings.

A 24-year-old Mexican righty signed in 2015, Urquidy was once known as solely a great pitchability guy before having Tommy John surgery in 2016. When he returned in 2018, he had a four-pitch mix and a fastball hovering between 89-92 mph and touching 93.

Four outings into the 2019 season, Urquidy was touching 97 mph. Recipients of Tommy John surgery often experience some sort of velocity increase upon their return, but not to the level Urquidy had demonstrated.

He struck out 40 and walked five in 33 Double-A innings before being promoted. Speaking in mid-May after Martin made his big league debut, general manager Jeff Luhnow lumped Urquidy along with the aforementioned names as candidates for the next promotion.

"It’s always hard to put a finger on what the mechanical changes are or if it’s just (him getting) physically stronger or something like that, but the coaches have been working on getting him to rotate better,” farm director Pete Putila said.

"I’m not completely surprised at what he’s done thus far, but the velo has been a very nice surprise. Now, he’s as legitimate of a major league starting pitching prospect as you can get.”

Lauded for his pitchability within the organization, Urquidy has a plus changeup and has recently progressed with a slider to complete a four-pitch mix.

"At this point, he’s checking all of the boxes,” Putila said. "He was sort of quietly doing that before, but everyone wants to see guys throwing 95, 6, 7 or 8.

"But him at 94 is still a very good pitcher, maybe just not a guy who's going to be lighting up prospect lists just because velo is easier to hedge on when people look at pitchers. Now, pitching (93-96), it’s a different ballgame.”

 

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