40 games: 15-25
81 games: 40-41
Final record: 90-72

CFTXAG10 said:

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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

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Didn't look through them all before posting mine, but nice to see other optimists.

The Astros against Jameson Taillon: Altuve 4, Bregman 5, Alvarez 7, Tucker 9, Diaz DH, Peña 6, Singleton 3, Caratini 2, Meyers 8

Arrighetti RHP

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 24, 2024

Bregman moved up in the lineup… FFS

Oof

Well I hope one of us is right

bearkatag15 said:

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The Astros against Jameson Taillon: Altuve 4, Bregman 5, Alvarez 7, Tucker 9, Diaz DH, Peña 6, Singleton 3, Caratini 2, Meyers 8

Arrighetti RHP

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 24, 2024

Bregman moved up in the lineup… FFS

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I like it. I would say 10 runs, but the cold weather/wind holds us to 6.

bearkatag15 said:

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The Astros against Jameson Taillon: Altuve 4, Bregman 5, Alvarez 7, Tucker 9, Diaz DH, Peña 6, Singleton 3, Caratini 2, Meyers 8

Arrighetti RHP

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 24, 2024

Bregman moved up in the lineup… FFS

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I can support this. He wasn't going to be moved down. I think you can hide his struggles better in the 2-hole and take some of the pressure off of him to drive in runs. Let his focus be on getting on base.

Our first base options are still trash, though. Here's hoping Singleton happens to time one up for a bat flip.

tjack16 said:

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Bregman to the 2 hole

It'll make some Espada either look very smart or very dumb.

I'd personally have him and Pena flipped

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That's what I would have wanted as well

bearkatag15 said:

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The Astros against Jameson Taillon: Altuve 4, Bregman 5, Alvarez 7, Tucker 9, Diaz DH, Peña 6, Singleton 3, Caratini 2, Meyers 8

Arrighetti RHP

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 24, 2024

Bregman moved up in the lineup… FFS

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I don't mind trying it for a series as a last-chance, you-better-get-your-****-fixed-now option. This is where you've been hitting. There are no more excuses. If he doesn't become more productive after a couple games there, drop him to 9 to flip the lineup over with his walks (which he's not doing as well this year).

IMO this is about as good as it can get without getting Dubon in at 1b. If we don't produce with this lineup against a middling team like the Cubs, then bigger changes will be needed.

Wabs said:

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Any guesses?

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Going off of logos, it looks like a late 70's/early '80s player.

Milt May

Wabs said:

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

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The A's and the Angels seem to be playing noticeably better. THe A's have several young arms that are doing work early, inculding their lights out closer. If the Astros don't get their **** together, they could easily go first to worst.

SpaceCityAg05 said:

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Milt May

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Yep, I believe you got it.

It took me a while because I was focusing on 80s Astros until I let my attention wander back to the mid 70s.

Brayan Bello has been placed on the 15-Day IL with right lat tightness, per @ChrisCotillo.

Zack Kelly will take his spot on the roster.

Please stop with the injuries. This is insanity. pic.twitter.com/bgexBYB72s

— Tyler Milliken ⚾️ (@tylermilliken_) April 24, 2024

Another one bites the dust

bearkatag15 said:

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Brayan Bello has been placed on the 15-Day IL with right lat tightness, per @ChrisCotillo.

Zack Kelly will take his spot on the roster.

Please stop with the injuries. This is insanity. pic.twitter.com/bgexBYB72s

— Tyler Milliken ⚾️ (@tylermilliken_) April 24, 2024

Another one bites the dust

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Pitch clock and removing anything to help grip the balls will kill baseball more than the steroids era did. It's funny that everyone thinks that only spider tack was only helping the pitchers, but I think some of the hitting problems we see are going back to that as well and the lack of control some pitchers have without it.

Another good job by Manfred.

tjack16 said:

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Luckily our division isn't that great this year. If we were in the AL East it might be over by June. That division might have all 3 wild card spots

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And a bunch of division games remain, including 13 against Seattle

You're going to have to try it for more than one series though. It's like a 3 series move if you're going to make it.

Cody Bellinger has a fractured rib pic.twitter.com/IFe1z6dqx6

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

Dubon MIA in Chicago

don't need him apparently

I really like to see :
A) Yordan in 3 hole
B) Yordan in LF

This year YA has 1.167 OPS when playing the field, .661 when DH.
We need the big man at maximum output!

But we also don't want to see the big man flying into that unpadded brick wall while battling the wind.

iBrad said:

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bearkatag15 said:

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The Astros against Jameson Taillon: Altuve 4, Bregman 5, Alvarez 7, Tucker 9, Diaz DH, Peña 6, Singleton 3, Caratini 2, Meyers 8

Arrighetti RHP

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 24, 2024

Bregman moved up in the lineup… FFS

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I can support this. He wasn't going to be moved down. I think you can hide his struggles better in the 2-hole and take some of the pressure off of him to drive in runs. Let his focus be on getting on base.

Our first base options are still trash, though. Here's hoping Singleton happens to time one up for a bat flip.

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In regard to Bregman, a lot on here are acting like he's never hit in the 4-spot before and been an RBI guy.

Here's his batting order for his career:
2017 - Batting all over the lineup
2018 - Batted 2nd most of the year, followed by 3rd
2019 - Bregman batted 3rd most of the year
2020 - Bregman batted 3rd or 4th most of the year
2021 - Bregman batted 3rd most of the year
2022 - Bregman batted 4th most of the year, followed by 3rd
2023 - it's the only year he batted the 2nd most of the year

He's has had the pressure of driving in runs almost every of his career - all while enduring slow Aprils. It's just this April happens to be one of the slowest he's ever had.

He's mentally capable of being in the 4-spot, and he's done it along with the 3rd spot most of his career.

The only reason I'm advocating moving him down is because, if Abreu wasn't on the Astros, he'd be by far the worst hitter on the team.

He does have the third highest walks on the team, so maybe that will help the team, but his OBP is abysmal.

He doesn't need to focus getting on base. He needs to focus on solid contact, line-drives, and just playing freaking baseball instead of tinkering. Then the on-base stuff will work itself out. Maybe batting 6th, 7th, or 8th will help him focus on that.

His career numbers batting 4th are damn good, too. He's just awful right now

Maybe his swing is jacked from all the tinkering he does. I personally think his bat speed and reaction time has slowed enough that he can no longer effectively turn and pull the inside pitch and do damage to it. Maybe the leg injuries have cost him strength.

Whatever the reason I don't see it getting fixed. Just put him lower and see if he can be an effective 6/7 hole guy.

Yes that's a major change but it's time for some major changes.

The Porkchop Express said:

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bearkatag15 said:

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Brayan Bello has been placed on the 15-Day IL with right lat tightness, per @ChrisCotillo.

Zack Kelly will take his spot on the roster.

Please stop with the injuries. This is insanity. pic.twitter.com/bgexBYB72s

— Tyler Milliken ⚾️ (@tylermilliken_) April 24, 2024

Another one bites the dust

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I was a big fan of his first cousin

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me when i hear Dana talk about 10 game win streaks:

Mathguy64 said:

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Maybe his swing is jacked from all the tinkering he does. I personally think his bat speed and reaction time has slowed enough that he can no longer effectively turn and pull the inside pitch and do damage to it. Maybe the leg injuries have cost him strength.

Whatever the reason I don't see it getting fixed. Just put him lower and see if he can be an effective 6/7 hole guy.

Yes that's a major change but it's time for some major changes.

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You've hit on something I've been curious about - I do wonder if he's bat speed has slowed.

Some of the fast-balls I thought he should have crushed this season, he's popped up. The two last night toward the end of the game in particular.

I'm not a hitting guru so I won't pretend to be knowledgeable on his mechanics and what not but I think Bregman is too selective.

Yes he has an exceptional eye and command of the zone but it's almost to a fault.

He watches borderline pitches that yes they're balls but they often times get called strikes. While these are balls they're just outside the zone and hittable. I wanna see him swinging at those and doing damage.

Too often I feel like he's up there looking for a walk rather than inflecting damage.

Beat40 said:

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You're going to have to try it for more than one series though. It's like a 3 series move if you're going to make it.

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If this were a truly new spot to him, then, yes, I'd agree with you. But he's bat 2 in our lineup for what, the last 3 years? Directly in between Altuve and Alvarez. At some point you're going to have to pull the plug, and I don't know about anyone else, but my patience is wearing thin with the vets not named Altuve making bank but not producing near what they are garnering.

If it were me, I give him 5 games there and reevaluate. No days off.