That's awesome.

https://www.mlb.com/news/six-hit-game/c-266043102

I like not having to catch up on six pages.

Let's just hope we can scratch out 3 runs tomorrow. Haha.

Fun game, guess they all are when you are basically scoring at will

TayTrox34 said:

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Tony Sipp is making $6 millon this year. He is on pace to make 23 appearances this year. That is $261,000 per appearance.

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Got to be the most comfortable guy on the club.

Good to see the texags baseball thread is still the texags baseball thread. Team is winning at a .595 clip after dropping two hard fought series against two of the best teams in baseball and some of you starting getting itchy.

Breathe, relax, and enjoy the season. This team will start hitting more consistently and combined with this other worldly rotation will still be the team to beat in the post season.

For the record though I do think the Yankees, Halos, and BoSox will all be legitimate threats all year and into the post season. It could feasibly be a damn shame for who ever loses the wild card play in game to have to sit at home and watch the AL Central winner steal their playoff spot.

irish pete ag06 said:

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agdaddy04 said:

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Maybe it's just because it's late, but sure seem like there's a lot fewer posters during a game like this - and I recognize all of them.

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Posting from hospital room. My wife is about to give birth to Charlustin Mortlander.

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Just saw the box score wow.

Also I hate late games.

agdaddy04 said:

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Maybe it's just because it's late, but sure seem like there's a lot fewer posters during a game like this - and I recognize all of them.

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For those of us that live on East Coast, game started after 10 and have to be up for work at 530. With all the offensive fireworks I imagine game didn't end until closer to 2am. I made that sacrifice last year for postseason but not for an early May game against A's.

So runs are fun

irish pete ag06 said:

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agdaddy04 said:

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Maybe it's just because it's late, but sure seem like there's a lot fewer posters during a game like this - and I recognize all of them.

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Posting from hospital room. My wife is about to give birth to Charlustin Mortlander.

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Middle name must be Gilesipp?

Damn I called it a night after George's 5th hit thinking he wouldn't get another AB. Good to see him locked in.

If we learned anything during the WS it's that this offense goes as George goes so if he's raking maybe that rolls downhill and gets these guys going.

WelchAg said:

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If we lose 1-0 or 2-1 tonight I'll break something

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Seeing as Manaea only gives up 1.63 per 9 innings I'd say you need to put your valuables under lock and key.

He's a good pitcher that just doesn't give up many runs to anyone.

Thoughts during last night's game:

"Maybe Texags will chill out a bit now"

I saw this on twitter and want to check y'alls thoughts.

I've never been big on some of the advanced stats and this one caught my eye. IMO what a worthless stat if this shows guys like Rondon, Harris and Sipp on a leaderboard for us.

#Astros FIP leaders list:

Gerrit Cole (1.55)
Hector Rondon (1.71)
Justin Verlander (2.31)
Collin McHugh (2.42)
Will Harris (2.57)
Chris Devenski (2.60)
Tony Sipp (2.69)
Ken Giles (2.88)
Lance McCullers (3.05)

Great to see the breakout last night.

If Gattis wants to stay in the majors, he needs to lock himself inside the batting cage. No food, just enough water, and practice practice practice. Don't bears get more aggressive when they're hungry? El Oso Blanco needs to make an appearance.

I'll let irish get into more but I think FIP is actually a pretty well respected metric.

It measures a pitcher's performance on only what he has total control over (HRs, Ks, walks, and HBPs). It doesn't take into account balls in play. I think some will even say to look at FIP and not ERA as it's more true.

Yep.

They're going to have to do something with Gattis. Get him some innings behind the plate and hope that helps or a DL stint or something.

Not looking good for El Oso that's for sure.

Ag_07 said:

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I'll let irish get into more but I think FIP is actually a pretty well respected metric.

It measures a pitcher's performance on only what he has total control over (HRs, Ks, walks, and HBPs). It doesn't take into account balls in play. I think some will even say to look at FIP and not ERA as it's more true.

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I get the point of the stat, but if a guy gives up a lot of base hits but then does good with walks, strike outs and no homeruns it can be misleading to judge a guy off that stat.

It's almost like you gotta look at FIP and ERA to know the true value.

FIP estimates ERA by assuming average BABIP. Basically, it makes a guess at how many runs a pitcher would allow per nine innings with average luck and defense. ERA describes what happened when he pitched; FIP is a much better indicator of the pitcher's quality in the future.

Edit: It's really good when your pitchers have higher ERAs than FIPs because it suggests improvement in the future. When ERA is much lower than FIP, your guy is probably getting pretty lucky, except that a ground ball pitcher will usually be a little better than his FIP indicates.

Yeah that's a fair point and I don't disagree with it.

I also think ERA is a pretty flawed stat especially for relievers. If a guy loads the bases, is yanked, and the next guy gives up a grand slam the guy who actually gave up the HR doesn't get the inflated ERA.

Not sure if that has anything to with FIP vs ERA, but I hate that about ERA. I think it's a big misrepresentation for relief pitchers.

***But while we're on the subject I looked and overall the Astro BP is actually pretty good.

AL Rankings
3rd in ERA (3.47)
2nd in FIP (3.02)
3rd in WAR (1.3)
3rd in Ks/9 (10.03)
1st in HR/9 (0.77)

Anyone catch this: Springer getting ready for his sixth at-bat.



Well fudge, can't get the pic to work

ClickClack said:

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Feast or famine with this team

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Bump.

Maybe we need to get Carlos Beltran on retainer tonight to coach the guys through their at bats against an above average pitcher.

Frok said:

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This offense is feast or famine this year.

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That's baseball, man. Especially in the first couple of months when hitters are trying to find their groove. Same thing happened last year and look how that turned out.