Call your shot. At 7-17 what will our record be at the following points in the season

40 games:
81 games:
Final record:



I'll go
40 games: 16-24
81 games: 38-43
Final Record: 84-78

tjack16 said:

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Call your shot. At 7-17 what will our record be at the following points in the season

40 games:
81 games:
Final record:



I'll go
40 games: 16-24
81 games: 38-43
Final Record: 84-78

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I posted this on page 234 (11 days ago) when someone asked:

30 games? 9-21

60 games? 23-37

81 games? 32-49

I predicted 91-71 before the season. I don't think there's any chance we get there now. So I'll say 77-85 as final record.

40 games: 15-25
81 games: 40-41
Final Record: 89-73

Praying the starters return healthy and hungry, the bats wake up, and we send Genie back to Agrabah

Hearing talk about moving Jeremy back up in the lineup. Is it (past) time?

So far this year, this is who leads the team in having base runners on when they come up to bat:

1. Tucker - 80
2. Pena - 75
3. Alvarez - 61
4. Diaz - 61
5. McCormick - 56
6. Bregman - 55
7. Abreu - 48

Alvarez has surpassed Bregman in men on base when he's batting while getting more ABs.

Again, we've had this conversation, I'm fine with Yordan in the 3 spot, just no lower.

Bregman cannot be in the 2-spot until he proves he is turning it around.

I think traditional thinking is hard to break and we want to go back to things that are familiar when the going is rough.

Tucker has seen 19 more guys on base than Yordan, but that's partially because Altuve and Yordan are head of him.

However, Yordan is blasting singles. He's got 26 hits, 5 of which are HR and 3 are 2B. Bregman actually has more 2B than Yordan at 5. He's currently hitting a HR at a pace of every 19 ABs.

Does Yordan hitting 3rd change any of what he's currently doing at the plate? I don't really think it does.

At the end of the day, if you're going to put Yordan back at 3, fine. However, Bregman CANNOT be at 2 at the moment.

1. Altuve 2B
2. Tucker RF
3. Yordan DH
4. Diaz C
5. Pena SS
6. Bregman 3B
7. Chas LF
8. Dubon 1B
9. Meyers CF

cc10106 said:

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Paying Tuck would go a long way towards Crane showing he wants to make things right.

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tjack16 said:

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Call your shot. At 7-17 what will our record be at the following points in the season

40 games:
81 games:
Final record:



I'll go
40 games: 16-24
81 games: 38-43
Final Record: 84-78

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40 games: 13-27
81 games: 30-51
162 games: 72-90

Yeah, I hate it too.

70-92.

I just don't see the fire to dig out of the hole

Damn. Didn't think it was possible to be more pessimistic than me....

Funny thing about this - last year @JoeyVotto asked - how many hits would a regular person have in a full season of 550 ABs.

So I asked a bunch of Astros players how many hits I would over the course of a year:

Peña gave me 10
Hunter Brown gave me 10-20
I gave myself 8
Dubón… https://t.co/9Z0cuzfWyQ

— Ari Alexander (@AriA1exander) April 23, 2024

I imagine few to none, but I’d love to explain my thought process behind 8

— Ari Alexander (@AriA1exander) April 23, 2024

The explanation:

With some baseball background + MLB nutrition, strength training, hitting coaching and daily looks in the cage + in-game seeing 90+ MPH, I think by the end of the year, the ABs start to look a bit better, provided it’s sub-95 MPH. pic.twitter.com/XHGjNFFJJe

— Ari Alexander (@AriA1exander) April 24, 2024

So he could possibly out hit Abreu

Blake Snell is going on the IL pic.twitter.com/sX65I35yfo

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) April 24, 2024

Is there less time between pitchers reporting and the start of the regular season than in the past? Seems like all these pitchers are just not ready to go full bore when the season starts.

I think that's what we need to see, I remember Espada saying that everybody is going to know where they're batting but geez now it's like some of these players are asking themselves if they're playing or not. Go with something steady for 3 or 4 series and then switch it up. I feel like every game there's a different outfield, different DH and catcher. I'm also a little old school and I'd want Yordan batting 3rd and might as well move JP up to 2nd why not? It's worked before why not now.

tjack16 said:

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Call your shot. At 7-17 what will our record be at the following points in the season

40 games:
81 games:
Final record:



I'll go
40 games: 16-24
81 games: 38-43
Final Record: 84-78

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16-24
39-42
82-80

The Porkchop Express said:

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This season has really taken me back to covering high school baseball and what a disparity there was bewteen the haves and the have-nots when it came to good pitching. When you didn't have 2-3 guys who could throw strikes and throw outs, every game devolved into a blowout or a slugfest with walk after walk followed by groove pitch after grooved pitch.

Most don't like the theory because it feeds into one of 2 scapegoats from the last few years, but Carlos Correa once said that Martin Maldonado's ability to know what pitch to throw and what every hitter's weaknesses were was worth multiple runs per game, as detailed in this lengthy SI article from last year.

It obviously isn't a 1:1 narrative. Framber fell apart late last season while working with Maldonado and Rafael Montero was the human gas can early in 2023. But across the board, excluding Blanco and Verlander, most of these pitchers seem to not be making the right call A LOT and getting torched for it.

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we need to hire him as a bench coach asap. That's his gift. He could help a pitching staff out tremendously.
He's hitting .048 this season. He won't be PLAYING baseball much longer. Convince him it's time to coach!

Farmer1906 said:

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Lets talk about something more positive.

Jake from Rake Farm

• .227 BA - not ideal but probably a bit unlucky with a .268 xBA
• .277 OBP - again, not great, but reason to believe it'll improve
• .477 SLG - career best and the expected is even higher.
• .754 OPS - about the same as rookie Jake we were all excited about
• 6.4% BB% - about his avg
• 19.1% - down from his career 28.3%
• 0.33 BB/K - career best
• 0.3 WAR - on pace for a 2 WAR season as a part time player
• 117 wRC+ - career best

Hopefully, this indicates Meyers’ shoulder is finally healed. I’d like Meyers to get more consistent playing time to see what he’s capable of. A good defensive CFer with pop is valuable.

The Astros’ Exit Velocity & Barrels Leaderboard (includes EV50):https://t.co/nL3liDZLeg

— Tony Adams (@adams_at) April 24, 2024

He's also our best defender.

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Hmmm will you look at my boy

gambochaman said:

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tjack16 said:

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Call your shot. At 7-17 what will our record be at the following points in the season

40 games:
81 games:
Final record:



I'll go
40 games: 16-24
81 games: 38-43
Final Record: 84-78

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16-24
39-42
82-80

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LOL this team will finish 65-97.

1876er said:

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gambochaman said:

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tjack16 said:

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Call your shot. At 7-17 what will our record be at the following points in the season

40 games:
81 games:
Final record:



I'll go
40 games: 16-24
81 games: 38-43
Final Record: 84-78

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16-24
39-42
82-80

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LOL this team will finish 65-97.

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Yikes… if that happens, burn it all down

1876er said:

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gambochaman said:

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tjack16 said:

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Call your shot. At 7-17 what will our record be at the following points in the season

40 games:
81 games:
Final record:



I'll go
40 games: 16-24
81 games: 38-43
Final Record: 84-78

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16-24
39-42
82-80

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LOL this team will finish 65-97.

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Cody Bellinger To Be Placed On Injured List Due To Fractured Rib https://t.co/v11ZfKa0Kf pic.twitter.com/eNDSpWcjDZ

— MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) April 24, 2024

fractured rib for Belli

linkdude said:

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Cody Bellinger To Be Placed On Injured List Due To Fractured Rib https://t.co/v11ZfKa0Kf pic.twitter.com/eNDSpWcjDZ

— MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) April 24, 2024

fractured rib for Belli

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All that weed will make you cough

This is supposed to make my May BETTER?

Any guesses?

Spiers?

Farmer1906 said:

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So about Garrett Cooper… think that's possibly, maybe happening?

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48 hours right? So he can just fly to Mexico with us after the day game tomorrow

I don't know but those old school logos are absolute gold!

Farmer1906 said:

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So about Garrett Cooper… think that's possibly, maybe happening?

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Sources?

EastCoastAgNc said:

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Farmer1906 said:

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So about Garrett Cooper… think that's possibly, maybe happening?

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Sources?

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Not reporting. Just kind of hoping it's happening. We have to wait 48 hours, apparently.

I want it and I want it NOW!