***** Official Houston Astros 2017 Season Thread *****

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gambochaman said:

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rgt99 said:

How the hell does a team not make a necessary trade, yet the one trade they do make, makes them worse. Unbelievable!!! Only in Houston, could this happen!!!


RELAX DUDE EVERYTHING IS FINE, WE HAVE ALL THESE AWESOME PROSPECTS AND WE ARE GONNA BE SO AWESOME FOR SO MANY YEARS WINNING 90 GAMES AND ZERO WORLD SERIES!!!!!


Come on. Let's be real. We all now if Keuchel and McCullers aren't pitching well, we don't have a great shot. Their uncertainty doesn't make the decisions easy at the deadline.

Here's the biggest question to me: what if we made a move at the deadline this year and didn't win it all? Would the expectation be to make another move at the deadline next year? What if we didn't win it next year? Same thing?


If we're having another good season with a great chance at the post season, THEN YES GDAMMIT YOU MAKE MOVES TO ADDRESS WEAKNESSES


But you literally cannot do it every year. We contract are up you get stuck. The point people make about the prospects is with this in mind. I am for a balance between the two and picking your spot with regards to making big trades. You can't do it every year, but you gotta try at some point.

Let me ask you, if Keuchel and McCullers do not round out into form before thisbplayiffs, are you ok trading prospects for Britton when that help would be marginal at best?


Yes
You cant predict the future you can only asses with the data you have...the data said we needed some help and we got none


But Keuchel had been hurt since June and McCullers had done a stint or two on the DL. He also came back playing like crap, and is out again. Keuchel is most likely still hurt.

Britton would not have helped much in my opinion. He doesn't help you win when you've just about pitched yourself out of games the past two weeks.
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gambochaman said:

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It was a historic pace at the trade deadline. How is management telling them they aren't good enough? Especially with the freaking lead they built up. If they take the way the trade deadline happened as a sign of management saying they aren't good enough, then they are pessimists. They could east feel management is saying, yeah, your good enough, to go it.







The dodgers had an even better record at the deadline and what did their front office do???

I'll hang up and listen


The dodgers also had chances to make some trades the last few years but refused to trade Bellinger, Seager and a few others. Worked out pretty freaking well keeping those prospects.
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That strike zone they have on at&t is sketchy
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Agree on Britton. Starter was way more necessary than a reliever.
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Man this ump is bad. Thankfully it's helping the good guys.
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It's got to be terrible being in the majors, up at the plate, and not knowing what will be called a ball/strike.
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Last 2 pitches were well out of the zone. C'mon man.
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Just can't get the big time hit that is needed
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titanmaster_race said:

Agree on Britton. Starter was way more necessary than a reliever.


With this I agree. Jury is out on if we will regret not going for Sonny or if we refuse on Verlander.
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Sigh...
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This team right now
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Holy **** the lowest budget stupidest screen race ever here at globe life. What an embarrassment. It was 3 uncolored dots moving along a line.
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titanmaster_race said:

Last 2 pitches were well out of the zone. C'mon man.
You would be pissing yourself if that was you up to bat. Also, after watching Tuve go down looking last night, Centeno for sure didn't want to repeat. Rather see him be aggressive and put bat on ball.
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Bats are going to get 3 full innings against the rangers bullpen. Just need to stop the bleeding in the bottom half of innings.
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This team is not winning a playoff series.
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gambochaman said:

rgt99 said:

How the hell does a team not make a necessary trade, yet the one trade they do make, makes them worse. Unbelievable!!! Only in Houston, could this happen!!!



RELAX DUDE EVERYTHING IS FINE, WE HAVE ALL THESE AWESOME PROSPECTS AND WE ARE GONNA BE SO AWESOME FOR SO MANY YEARS WINNING 90 GAMES AND ZERO WORLD SERIES!!!!!


Hate to break this to you but the best way of insuring at least 1 World Series title is to plan for the team to make the playoffs as many years as you can. Going all in on one year does not guarantee anything.
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At least they're getting thrown out too.
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mAgnoliAg said:

Holy **** the lowest budget stupidest screen race ever here at globe life. What an embarrassment. It was 3 uncolored dots moving along a line.


You realize it's a throwback night, right?
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Beat40 said:

gambochaman said:

Beat40 said:

gambochaman said:

Beat40 said:

gambochaman said:

rgt99 said:

How the hell does a team not make a necessary trade, yet the one trade they do make, makes them worse. Unbelievable!!! Only in Houston, could this happen!!!


RELAX DUDE EVERYTHING IS FINE, WE HAVE ALL THESE AWESOME PROSPECTS AND WE ARE GONNA BE SO AWESOME FOR SO MANY YEARS WINNING 90 GAMES AND ZERO WORLD SERIES!!!!!


Come on. Let's be real. We all now if Keuchel and McCullers aren't pitching well, we don't have a great shot. Their uncertainty doesn't make the decisions easy at the deadline.

Here's the biggest question to me: what if we made a move at the deadline this year and didn't win it all? Would the expectation be to make another move at the deadline next year? What if we didn't win it next year? Same thing?


If we're having another good season with a great chance at the post season, THEN YES GDAMMIT YOU MAKE MOVES TO ADDRESS WEAKNESSES


But you literally cannot do it every year. We contract are up you get stuck. The point people make about the prospects is with this in mind. I am for a balance between the two and picking your spot with regards to making big trades. You can't do it every year, but you gotta try at some point.

Let me ask you, if Keuchel and McCullers do not round out into form before thisbplayiffs, are you ok trading prospects for Britton when that help would be marginal at best?


Yes
You cant predict the future you can only asses with the data you have...the data said we needed some help and we got none


But Keuchel had been hurt since June and McCullers had done a stint or two on the DL. He also came back playing like crap, and is out again. Keuchel is most likely still hurt.

Britton would not have helped much in my opinion. He doesn't help you win when you've just about pitched yourself out of games the past two weeks.


Great point, but don't expect this crowd to take it as one. This thread used to be tipped more towards facts and logical baseball discussion. It's now pure knee jerk and emotion based. Most of the posters I mentioned above have given up posting in here. It's a damn shame.
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So...many...walks.
979ag
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I don't even know how to feel anymore.
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Just saw they scores two more runs
Screw this team
Going to bed
maca1028
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This feels like the last 4 Aggie football seasons.
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maca1028
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Winning makes everything better.
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AccidentProne said:

mAgnoliAg said:

Holy **** the lowest budget stupidest screen race ever here at globe life. What an embarrassment. It was 3 uncolored dots moving along a line.


You realize it's a throwback night, right?
979ag
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maca1028 said:

This feels like the last 4 Aggie football seasons.
Welcome to the November of Astros Baseball
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these are the runs allowed per game by the pitching staff since the last game of the Philadelphia series:

----> 9, 5, 5, 13, 7, 6, 3, 5, 7, 4, 6, 8, 7, 3, 6, and 8
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Reddick currently on a 1 for 17 jag.

is it just a coincidence...that after the players (Keuchel, Reddick) complain to the media about the trade deadline...they pitch and play terrible?
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I'm of the "I hope we'll look back on this **** stretch as a character building experience" mindset right now.

This squad is eyeballs deep in turd stew right now, for sure.
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Our Astros really may be the worst team in the AL right now. This is surreal.
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Aggie8587 said:

Our Astros really may be the worst team in the AL right now. This is surreal.
Being that we are about to get swept by two of the worst teams in baseball. Yeah, we suck right now.
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maca1028 said:

Winning makes everything better.
I agree... but spoiler alert, we will not lose all of the games left... we will win again. This team has too much talent to keep up the 1 damn bad streak of the year that most posters here want to accept as the new norm for this team.
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If they had made a trade for a pitcher at the deadline he'd have pitched 2 or 3 times. As bad as the offense and bullpen are how much better would the record be?
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