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

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Dusty is a strange cat.

He'll burn pitchers arms in the regular season.

And fckk around with the offense.

If your club survives that it could win in the postseason.
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Eso si, Que es said:

AggiEE said:

If only we played Tucker instead of Reddick we'd have probably won another WS
welcome to the 2019 thread. AggiEE said for 4 months that Reddick was the better option until one day, he didn't anymore.

Every pitch Reddick saw, every AB, Every night. Yall think we moan about Dusty's line up too much, go check September of that thread (but don't forget to look back and see how he backed Reddick first).


I never said Reddick was the better option, I was a known
Reddick hater

"But Tucker us too young and unproven" they said…

You must have me confused with somebody else

I prefer to roll with unproven talent that has high upside than aging veterans that are already quite bad …
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BadAggie said:

Dusty is a strange cat.

He'll burn pitchers arms in the regular season.

And fckk around with the offense.

If your club survives that it could win in the postseason.
He definitely seems to intentionally put his team in tough spots often during the regular season so ideally they're ready for anything in the postseason. That may be giving him too much credit though.
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Stros waited until August 8th to unleash Singeltron on MLB.

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He failed to win it all with good Giants (3x), Cubs, Reds (3x), and Nats (2x) teams, losing before the WS in all but one of those instances, and also lost the 2021 WS before it all came together last year with Yordan's big moments, elite starting pitching, and an all-time bullpen performance.

So suffice to say I've always found the argument specious that he's playing some 5D chess game with his silliness all year in which he actually knows better than anyone how to turn it on in the playoffs. I.e. I do think it is giving him too much credit.

It's an approach that can work if and only when the team he's leading is already a runaway World Series favorite. Hence why it worked exactly once.

That said I hope tonight is the start of it all coming together again. Inb4 we see a completely flip-flopped lineup tomorrow…
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Dude's a pretty good GM when you're still winning because of him 2 GMs later.

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Baseball America's mid-season rankings for the farm. Thought the bottom 5 was interesting.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/teams/2010-houston-astros/prospects/

26 Kessinger
27 Whitley
28 Perez
29 Lee (RIP)
30 Valencia

Arrighetti at 7
Hensley at 8
Dirden at 9
Leon at 19

Bodies for the Verlander trade, Gilbert at 1 and Clifford at 3.

Still kinda lol that France never showed up on any of these kinds of lists and likely performing better than any pitcher on them in the actual MLB. The death of the Astros farm system seems to be a recurring fantasy among baseball 'journalists'. Pena and Diaz are the latest examples of what was not supposed to exist.



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I miss him. He rules.
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BadAggie said:

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Farmer1906 said:

TED pace update

28 HR
34 SB
117 RBI
and he's hitting .297.

In '97, Bagwell was 43 HR, 31 SB, 135 RBI and hit .286. Tucker posting similar numbers to your greatest power hitter and RBI machine every is pretty solid for ol' Ted.


I'm missing something. What is "TED"

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/in-search-of-a-swing-like-ted-williams




"With ducks on the pond, tuck tuck goose for the big one" - Blummer.

Gotta love it.
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In Soviet Baltimore...
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Give Singleton a start tonight
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Finally have a good team and the Angelos family is dead set on chasing fans away.

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Wabs said:

Give Singleton a start tonight



He started the game winning rally last night. He'll be lucky if he plays before Saturday
Im looking for Ray Finkle.... and a clean pair of shorts. Im just a very big Finkle fan. This is my Graceland, sir.


MAGA

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BCEDAg said:

stoneca said:

After being stuck at 0.5 GB for like a week we are now back to 4 GB. Great
you need to get rid of your crystal ball. After the comeback win we are still 3 games back . You still have to get 27 outs before the game is decided. Bet you're a blast at parties.
He's like all fortune tellers, a complete charlatan (guaranteeing a loss and a win):

Quote:

stoneca said:

We're winning this game

Also, you can't claim you were trying a reverse jinx when you later predict a win.
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They like Gordon and I think he projects a solid #4 in a big league rotation. Limited ceiling but a high floor. Similar to JP France. Velo doesn't blow you away, but his fastball moves and he has good command. Nasty slider as well.

The Astros have developed a lot of solid big league players and the farm system has a lot of guys who could certainly turn out to be solid as well. I think this is a big reason why they drafted the way they did this year. They picked a lot of guys who have high ceilings but lower floors. They're looking for guys who could be all stars.
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EastCoastAgNc said:




Really well done. Let's go ahead and sweep them and the brownian curse will become a thing
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I used to think DeRo was kinda a DB and couldn't really stand him.

He's grown on me in the past couple years and I enjoy his stuff. His breakdowns like this are pretty spot on.
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BadAggie said:

Bat Yordan 3rd and call up Singleton.

Just fan stuff.
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Speaking of Dusty, if the game had gone to extra innings they would have been without a DH. Because he keeps starting a catcher he has to pinch hit for in late innings.
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McInnis said:

Speaking of Dusty, if the game had gone to extra innings they would have been without a DH. Because he keeps starting a catcher he has to pinch hit for in late innings.
this, x3!
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McInnis said:

Speaking of Dusty, if the game had gone to extra innings they would have been without a DH. Because he keeps starting a catcher he has to pinch hit for in late innings.


NVM. You guys keep on keeping on.
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my gosh today would be a perfect day to announce a 10 year contract for Tucker this morning. Buy out his last two years of arbitration and its basically an 8 year deal. PAY THE ****ING MAN!
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What a site to see, the closer comes out to this only to be grand salamied.
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Texaggie7nine said:




What a site to see, the closer comes out to this only to be grand salamied.
I am going to have to disagree with the tweet. The start is kind of cool, but I kept waiting for the music to hit and it never came.
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Farmer1906 said:

Texaggie7nine said:




What a site to see, the closer comes out to this only to be grand salamied.
I am going to have to disagree with the tweet. The start is kind of cool, but I kept waiting for the music to hit and it never came.


Agreed. I felt the same. Edwin Diaz's and Pressly's are much better.
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Meh.....I'll take Pressly's entrance



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It was really cool the first 10 secs when they played the whistling (The Wire reference for those of you who don't know) since it fits with Baltimore. But then it's juts lights flashing. Boring after that
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Extremely impressive accomplishment
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Pressly is at 27 saves. His personal best is 33 from last season. He should beat that as long as he stays healthy. The team record of 44 I think is out of reach unless we have a very stressful last 7 weeks.
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McInnis said:

Speaking of Dusty, if the game had gone to extra innings they would have been without a DH. Because he keeps starting a catcher he has to pinch hit for in late innings.
How often in the later innings of games much less extras has a pitcher gone more than one inning in recent Astros history whether under A.J. or Dusty?

Even after a big W and a lineup many here were OK with before the game we still can't have a day without *****ing about Dusty's lineups. Sure everyone here would prefer Diaz get the bulk of the starts at catcher but we also know certain pitchers on our staff prefer Maldy. So if Dusty were to read your post he would have left Diaz out of the lineup to give Frambler his guy in the bucket.
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