***** Official 2022 Houston Astros Season Thread *****

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I'll take a stab at it... Astros, Padres, Rangers, Cubs... that's all I got. Cleveland maybe? Somewhere in the AL Central.
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MAROON said:

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Former Astro Phil Nevin.
Former Yankee too
never a Yankee (or at least never played for the Yanks, was a coach). But did play for seven different organizations in the league.

If you can name them all consider yourself an MLB savant.
He was a 3B coach for them in 2019 at least.
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Bregxit said:

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I'll be in the Crawford Boxes tonight. Section 101 row 7


Will be there Friday in 102 row 2.
y'all should meet up...
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texasaggie2015 said:

I'll take a stab at it... Astros, Padres, Rangers, Cubs... that's all I got. Cleveland maybe? Somewhere in the AL Central.
add Tigers, Angels, and Twins. 12 years in the majors
What do you boys want for breakfast BBQ ?.....OK Chili.
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Valdez needs to get more work at 3B. He's played there in the past.
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Taylor may have dodged a bullet but I'm not sure that means the Astros did…..
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JV better have a long leash from the umps. He's earned it. I don't recall him ever head hunting and retaliating.
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EastCoastAgNc said:


hmm..not sure about this one. Logically, it makes sense. Mechanically, too many ways to screw yourself up
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Bregman: "I think you've got to have a lot of different swings if you want to be able to cover every pitch. I don't think you can cover an elite four-seamer up in the zone and an elite sinker down in the zone with the same swing, You have to either make an eye adjustment on where you're trying to swing, or you need to have a swing adjustment on how you're trying to hit that pitch. The [bat] path you take is going to be different for those two pitches."
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More from the article
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"Early this year, I've mechanically not been where I want to be with my swing. I do feel like I've done a pretty good job of swinging at good pitches to hit, and taking balls. I actually found some mechanical things today [May 18] that should help out throughout the rest of the season, help me to do some damage."

Laurila: Can you elaborate?

Bregman: "My hand load has been a little bit inconsistent over the last few years. The wrist position of my top hand… we changed it today, and it felt pretty good."
Since May 18 (16 games) Bregman is
11/58 for .189
4 XBH, 1 being a HR
6 RBI
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See ya Joe. Not many managers who run a club with multiple MVPs and CYAs can run it into the ground like you have. It takes talent and you should be proud.
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Both of the quotes you posted are how I feel about Bregman - he overthinks. Do what got you there and just hit the ball. Play off the fastball with whatever swing that is and hit the ball.
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I'm no hitting coach but having multiple swings sounds like it's setting a hitter for failure.

Yes...No shlt it's a different bat path but it's all the same swing.

None of that sounds very promising and honestly it sounds like Bregs is not very coachable.
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Bregman has never gotten his swagger back since the cheating scandal was announced. It's always felt like he took it really personally and hasn't been able to get back to being "Alex Bregman, cocky a*hole who you would hate if he wasn't on your team." He takes way too many close pitches for balls and then doesn't get his pitch later in the count and whiffs or pops out.

Phil Nevin is such an Astros' asterisk. #1 pick from our godawful 65-97 1991 year of rebuilding where Bags, Finley, Gonzo, Harnisch, and Schilling all joined the team. Forever known for being the #1 overall pick in the year that Derek Jeter went #5. Rest of the first round was "meh" - Jason Kendall and Johnny Damon were the only other +_+ guys to come out of the first round.

Put in a full year at Tucson in 1993 - 93 RBI, .286 Avg. 94 again in Tucson dipped to .263. Started '95 in Tucson again and hit .292 in 62 games, got brought up to the show, and hit .117 in 18 games for the Astros, and they traded him to the Tigers at the trade deadline for friggin MIke Henneman who pitched in 21 games, had 8 saves, and did not help us make the playoffs, then signed with the Rangers in the off-season.

Life is better with a beagle
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Bregman looks too stiff. He's always had a short compact swing but to me the muscle he added stiffened him up and maybe slowed him down at the same time. If you are going to stand on top of the plate like he does you better be fast. And he doesn't seem fast.
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Excited to be at the game tonight, haven't seen Verlander pitch in person in a while

LFG!
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I'll be there tonight. 315
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It's complete BS that Servais isn't suspended too
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EastCoastAgNc said:




BULL****
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Farmer1906 said:

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BULL****
I think the fact he is suspended and Ryan wasn't says something about what the league thinks about what happened Sunday.
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For all the Maldonado defenders of him "calling a great game"…we officially have the worst hitting catchers in baseball history
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Beerosch said:


For all the Maldonado defenders of him "calling a great game"…we officially have the worst hitting catchers in baseball history
There's another guy contributing to that who should be the first to go.
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Farmer1906 said:

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BULL****
I know Click said they've been in communication with the MLB and they want to just get back to playing ball, but for the players - one of the guys essentially getting suspended because Servais is an idiot might just cause some sparks in either of these last two games.
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EastCoastAgNc said:

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For all the Maldonado defenders of him "calling a great game"…we officially have the worst hitting catchers in baseball history
There's another guy contributing to that who should be the first to go.

Still goaltending. I knew this board wouldn't disappoint
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Beerosch said:

EastCoastAgNc said:

Beerosch said:


For all the Maldonado defenders of him "calling a great game"…we officially have the worst hitting catchers in baseball history
There's another guy contributing to that who should be the first to go.

Still goaltending. I knew this board wouldn't disappoint
Goaltending? He's saying Castro should be let go before Maldy.
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Neris and Dusty getting suspended has to be just league protocol right?

Like if you get tossed after a warning you also get suspended.

Because that's complete BS.
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Beat40 said:

Beerosch said:

EastCoastAgNc said:

Beerosch said:


For all the Maldonado defenders of him "calling a great game"…we officially have the worst hitting catchers in baseball history
There's another guy contributing to that who should be the first to go.

Still goaltending. I knew this board wouldn't disappoint
Goaltending? He's saying Castro should be let go before Maldy.

Y'all argue over who the smartest ****** is instead of acknowledging they both suck ass
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Beerosch said:

Beat40 said:

Beerosch said:

EastCoastAgNc said:

Beerosch said:


For all the Maldonado defenders of him "calling a great game"…we officially have the worst hitting catchers in baseball history
There's another guy contributing to that who should be the first to go.

Still goaltending. I knew this board wouldn't disappoint
Goaltending? He's saying Castro should be let go before Maldy.

Y'all argue over who the smartest ****** is instead of acknowledging they both suck ass
That's my entire point though, man. You called out the dude for "goaltending" for him saying Castro should go before Maldy. The dude never said Maldy shouldn't be let go or that both weren't horrible. You are the one who read into his comment that he was defending Maldy.

His point is if you're going to let go any of our catchers, it would be Castro first, then Maldy, which is something I happen to agree with. His comment points out how bad Maldy has been while further pointing out that, unbelievably, Castro is actually worse.

Anyway, here's to hoping we get a HR from the catching position tonight.
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