***** 2023 Houston Astros Season Thread *****

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Marvin
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Starfleet Regulation 619?

25th Amendment?

Justifiable homicide?

Ok, that last one may be taking it a bit too far... how about throwing a man overboard?
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Big Bucks said:

DVC2010 said:

Big Bucks said:

I am actually in the state and paid for five tickets for Saturday. I swear if Dusty starts Maldonado and Julks each and every one of you will hear the boos on the broadcast.


I'm assuming this is close enough. I'll turn the volume up for you.

Yep, close enough! My son and I will be booing and make my 75 year old mother mad because she thinks Dusty is great.


That's because she thinks septuagenarians should be paid million dollar salaries….
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Put Bregman and Montero on the trading block. Bring in another big bat, a prospect arm. Dubon or Kessinger on 3rd. Altuve will straighten out. Abreu is trending in the right direction. This season we'll be lucky to get a WC.
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Hornbeck said:

Put Bregman and Montero on the trading block. Bring in another big bat, a prospect arm. Dubon or Kessinger on 3rd. Altuve will straighten out. Abreu is trending in the right direction. This season we'll be lucky to get a WC.

Who is willing to pay $40 million per year for these guys? Nobody outside of Houston would be my guess... certainly with respect to Montero.
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on base % of todays leadoff hitters across MLB:

411
403
401
381
380
365
362
359
352
350
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350
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347
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344
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336
327
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311
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278


Other options for Astros to lead off who are steal threats
Altuve 345
Bregman 333
Tucker 357
Pena 305
Meyers 314
Dubon 315
McCormick 348

Last time Altuve led off was June 2. Being in the 2 hole he 7/33 with OPS of .532 versus an OPS of .888 leading off this year. He has a BAbip of .380 leading off versus .207 in the 2 hole.

I don't have to be Farmer to understand this stuff. And when we score 2+ runs today this will be considered a successful experiment by Dusty as some sort of spark.

Done ranting, be back when there is a lineup that indicates we want to win.
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Maybe dusty was our real punishment and we just overcame it last year.

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These pretzels are making me thirsty
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Good thing is Bregman will be cheaper when his contract comes up. If he was putting up 2019 numbers he'd be getting 35M per year

He will be in the 15-20 MM a year range after 2024
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Unrelated note- why did David Freese decline induction into the Cardinals HOF?
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My mother already started by cheering loudly for Dusty during introductions as spite to me. She also voted for our senile president so at least she is consistent.
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Pena struggling in the field in this series

E-6
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way outta the park

2-0 Reds
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**** me. 2 run hole. That should about do it.
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hung a slider middle-middle
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This team sure seems to have fully adopted its garbo manager's indifference.
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Another E on Peña. Playing with fire already
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oh my, another E-6

what is going on?
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This seems insurmountable.
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Peña is mentally toast at this point. He needs to see Framber's sports psychologist.
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and these errors are not judgment calls

straight up misplays
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Re: Dusty - are his lineups (1) negligence, (2) gross negligence, or (3) intentional?

There...I said it. It's what all of you are thinking.
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That should be strike 3.
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bases loaded

this might be the ballgame right here

need an out
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Marvin said:

Unrelated note- why did David Freese decline induction into the Cardinals HOF?



I've read 2 articles about it and it still doesn't give a clear answer
Im looking for Ray Finkle.... and a clean pair of shorts. Im just a very big Finkle fan. This is my Graceland, sir.


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whew, Pena made the play that time
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Peña pulls it together. I was afraid he would take so long he would be late on the throw.
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W said:

whew, Pena made the play that time
Foot slipped a little when he planted that made me hold my breath.

Let's see if the bats get to work. Maybe Julks makes us eat crow.
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Marvin said:

Unrelated note- why did David Freese decline induction into the Cardinals HOF?


I take it as he feels his career as a whole is unworthy - there's some crazy names in there. Pujols, Morgan, Brock, Musial, etc
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second pitch pop out for Julks
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Freese played 5 of his 11 seasons with the Cardinals

his career and career numbers are (obviously) way, way below the many Cardinal greats
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Altuve singles to RF
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That's my leadoff man!
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Ok Tuck. Get a piece of something.
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Eso si, Que es said:

Furthermore, I have bit my tongue till now. I watched the "Reggie" special on Amazon Prime a while back and he just preaches about blacks not getting a fair shake in MLB leadership roles. And here we are with a black special assistant to the owner, black GM, black manager leading off a black man who would never lead off on any MLB team because why?

I don't give a f/ck if Dusty is red blue green yellow black or white, he is a f/cking idiot and putting out a sh/t lineup card.

Do better Dusty. I dream of a day when ABs are about the content of their statistics and not the color of their skin.


This is the only reason Julks plays. It's absolutely Dusty trying to give an A-A every opportunity to play at the MLB level despite having a diverse roster of guys who are way more talented than Julks is.
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Altuve steals second
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