There's a lot of suck to go around when you're winning at a .333 clip.
***** 2024 Houston Astros Season Thread ***** [Staff Warning]
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He's looked very mediocre. I expected a step back from his crazy good season last year, but nothing like this. I think he'll work his way out of it.
Boiling Denim said:Marvin said:
Bregman is pretty good when batting with 2 out and RISP (.940 OPS).
When the game is close and late, however, he is Choke City. He sports a career .697 OPS in nearly 500 plate appearances. This year he is mowing them down at an eye-popping .452 OPS level.
If the game is on the line, Bregman is the LAST player you want at the plate (besides Abreu, of course).
Bregman strikes me as an Analysis Paralysis victim. He's trying too hard to win the chess match and misses mistakes and gets caught guessing
I've said this before, but his swing is a very linear swing on a specific plane. It's extremely consistent. He does best on mistake pitches and pitches that feed into his swing plane. When pitchers locate well, they beat him. This is why he pops up so much and kills the ball into the ground. The pitches are above or below his set plane and he can't adjust. When he's on, it's because he takes what the pitcher gives him and his timing is on point to pull on inside pitches and drive oppo on outside pitches. He's playing in a batting order spot that demands run producing and he is not built for adjusting his power swing.
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22 games in and Chas+Bregman+Abreu have zero homeruns.
Pretty wild
Pretty wild
So now we have or have had since the start of the season:
JV
Framber
CJ
Garcia
Urquidy
LMJ
All on the IL or unable to start in Framber case.
That's your entire 6 man seasonal rotation right there. The whole starting staff. That's spectacular.
JV
Framber
CJ
Garcia
Urquidy
LMJ
All on the IL or unable to start in Framber case.
That's your entire 6 man seasonal rotation right there. The whole starting staff. That's spectacular.
Mathguy64 said:
So now we have or have had since the start of the season:
JV
Framber
CJ
Garcia
Urquidy
LMJ
All on the IL or unable to start in Framber case.
That's your entire 6 man seasonal rotation right there. The whole starting staff. That's spectacular.
And 4 of those they knew would be on the IL before the season even started. 3 of them you knew would not be back until July at the earliest… Yet no move to help the rotation depth in the offseason. Frustrating
Farmer1906 said:
He's looked very mediocre. I expected a step back from his crazy good season last year, but nothing like this. I think he'll work his way out of it.
I wonder how much is him pressing, knowing he's in and around Abreu and that he is trying to hard to make up for that.
Anybody else going to the game today? I'm solo having lunch and a beer in the navy yard and am going to find myself a decent seat
tjack16 said:MaxPower said:
Diaz has been playing a lot. I assume they like the idea of him getting two full days of rest. While we've had a lot of pitching injuries, we've had none on offense. No reason to push our luck.
You could DH him today and Tuesday. To me that's still maximizing his offense and not giving him some partial time off. We had an off day Thursday and have another one tomorrow
I wish we could teach Yainer a second position, I would like to have him DH more and caratini in the lineup more but with only two catchers it makes it difficult as you have to burn the dh if one of them gets hurt during the game
Most teams don't consider DH a day of rest. Yes it's better than catching but it's as much a mental break as anything else.
The guy I'd like to see DH more is Altuve. He sucks in the field and he's not a spring chicken. Can't afford to lose him for a significant period of time.
The guy I'd like to see DH more is Altuve. He sucks in the field and he's not a spring chicken. Can't afford to lose him for a significant period of time.
MaxPower said:
Most teams don't consider DH a day of rest. Yes it's better than catching but it's as much a mental break as anything else.
The guy I'd like to see DH more is Altuve. He sucks in the field and he's not a spring chicken. Can't afford to lose him for a significant period of time.
Yeah it's funny, I'm a huge fan of OOTP baseball sim games, and he just kills you in the field. Something like a -11 Zone rating at the end of the year. Very quickly on you start DH'ing him against righties and playing him at first against lefties (he turns into a decent 1B after a spring training session there) playing Cabbage at first against righties because he is insane against them (at least in the sim)
Here and locked in boys!!! We got it today
Sparky said on the radio hunter knew 2-3 days ago that he might have to start today
Nguyen it.
Another pitch starter on the IL...Thanks Rob
If you listen to Dana on the pregame show everything will be just fine. If he says back of the baseball cards one more time I'm gonna break something. This attitude is what is doing in this team
Dana says urquidy sometime in May
#Angels transactions:
— Angels PR (@LAAngelsPR) April 21, 2024
•Selected the contract of INF Ehire Adrianza (#13)
•Placed INF Anthony Rendon (left hamstring strain) on 10-day injured list
•Transferred RHP Robert Stephenson to 60-day injured list
Regularly scheduled Anthony Rendon injury
Abreu watch.
-1.4 bWAR. -32 OPS+, actual OPS .223. All 11 other batters who play (ignoring Kessinger) have a BA higher than that OPS. That OPS+ is 50 points worse than the next worse qualified batter. So he is 50% worse than the next worst player in the AL. Let that sink in.
Someone has to be the person standing on the far left of the Normal distribution known as OPS+. And Jose Abreu is that person. And he's chosen to be so far to the left you need a spotting scope to see him.
-1.4 bWAR. -32 OPS+, actual OPS .223. All 11 other batters who play (ignoring Kessinger) have a BA higher than that OPS. That OPS+ is 50 points worse than the next worse qualified batter. So he is 50% worse than the next worst player in the AL. Let that sink in.
Someone has to be the person standing on the far left of the Normal distribution known as OPS+. And Jose Abreu is that person. And he's chosen to be so far to the left you need a spotting scope to see him.
this guy throws strikes
Every time I feel bad about the Astros, I consider the last 15 ish years of the Angels. Three of the greatest players of the modern game, albeit Pujols on the back end of it, and their last playoff appearance was when my now 6th-grade kids were 2 years old.
Life is better with a beagle
Glad to see the big bats came to the plate motivated today.
Except when he throws balls and blue calls them strikes. Or when he throws balls and we swing at them.W said:
this guy throws strikes
looked like some Saturday hangover in the top of the 1st
BTHO SOFT CONTACT HITS
W said:
looked like some Saturday hangover in the top of the 1st
And the bottom
lol already losing aftet 2 at bats
Allrighty i can see where this is going and have better things to do with my sunday
H.B. getting to 2 strikes in the count
but can't finish the hitter
but can't finish the hitter
Lol 65 avg EV on the two hits. It's gonna be that kinda day
Credit to @Raford3 for asking the question. Can be easy on a team-run broadcast to avoid anything negative or uncomfortable.
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 21, 2024
What a terrible start
This team needs an exorcism. I mean dig up a dead Max von Sydow and have him officiate a full blown exorcism ceremony
Nationals keep fouling off pitches
linkdude said:
Lol 65 avg EV on the two hits. It's gonna be that kinda day
You're not wrong but more to it than that….
What about ignoring the runner on first so him getting a huge jump and stealing second, then caratini dripping the ball on the transfer (not that it would have mattered with the jump). Or the high amount of balls thrown. Or getting two strikes and not having a put out pitch.
Eta, an another brain fart my brown and a balk. Which runner would have likely been safe anyway.
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