The Astros need to find a power surge. Maybe a statistical correction is coming... Astros 4th in Hard Hit %, 5th in exit velocity and 3rd in launch angle, and tied for 4th in doubles...but 14th in homers.

Need Bregman and Chas to start popping. Yainer and Yordan are in mini droughts, too.

redline248 said:

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The Astros need to find a power surge. Maybe a statistical correction is coming... Astros 4th in Hard Hit %, 5th in exit velocity and 3rd in launch angle, and tied for 4th in doubles...but 14th in homers.

Need Bregman and Chas to start popping. Yainer and Yordan are in mini droughts, too.

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Agreed - the lack of slugging, especially with men on base, is killing the offense.

While he needs to mature out of this trend, I am wondering if we should consider moving Yainer up in the order, even to the leadoff spot to make him a table-setter instead of a RBI guy. His approach is night and different different.

In the big picture, I don't necessarily like such a strategy, but when you are looking to shake things up and help run production, I am wondering if we should consider something like: Diaz - Altuve - Yordan - Tucker as the top 4.

And I really think we need to start giving Caratini starts at 1B. Aside from the obvious black hole at 1B, he is one guy who seems to be consistently putting up good ABs, even if he is not a world beater.

Beat40 said:

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redline248 said:

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The Astros need to find a power surge. Maybe a statistical correction is coming... Astros 4th in Hard Hit %, 5th in exit velocity and 3rd in launch angle, and tied for 4th in doubles...but 14th in homers.

Need Bregman and Chas to start popping. Yainer and Yordan are in mini droughts, too.

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Agreed - the lack of slugging, especially with men on base, is killing the offense.

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Currently tied with 6 other teams for 10th in homers with 26 so far, but out of those 6 teams only Oakland has scored less runs while Arizona has scored 48 more times with the same amount of games played.

These tweets are pretty sobering.

EastCoastAgNc said:

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Alex Bregman on another slow start and whether there’s more pressure:

“I find zero pressure in regards to playing in a contract year. I play the game to be an elite player in the game. I could give a shit about anything but playing at a high level.” - https://t.co/joG2Vxt61Z

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 25, 2024

Might want to start giving a ****

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I don't have to read the article to know this is a case of Chandler being a dbag and asking some loaded question and Bregman bristling.

EastCoastAgNc said:

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Alex Bregman on another slow start and whether there’s more pressure:

“I find zero pressure in regards to playing in a contract year. I play the game to be an elite player in the game. I could give a shit about anything but playing at a high level.” - https://t.co/joG2Vxt61Z

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 25, 2024

Might want to start giving a ****

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You read that as not giving a *****

I appreciate your thoughts. They echo much of how I feel currently.

I'm not worried about Bregman. He's always been a slow starter. It just happens to be a year when everyone else sucks.

one thing I noticed the other day...going back to the 2017 roster...

among Marwin, Beltran, Gattis, and McCann...one of them (and sometimes two of them) were on the bench every game

so Hinch had a veteran hitter(s) with power available for late game maneuvers

but those days are long gone for the Astros' bench

Looking at Kessinger and Singleton as the end of our bench (starting the year) really magnifies what the loss of picks did to our farm. Is there anyone ready to step in and be decent if it was needed in the IF? I don't count Dubon because he does a lot already.

Are either of the SS/2B in Sugarland actual MLB caliber players? Cabbage and Loperfido the current plan at 1B?

it looks really good compared to 2024

especially in the power department

I forget Jake M. slugged .495 that year including 16 HR's

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Anyone else remember 4-20 in 1969? 20th lose was a no hitter by Jim Maloney of the Reds. Next night Don Wilson no hit the Reds and they got on a heater. Just need to get no hit tomorrow.

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That team finished with a .500 record.

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Which was better than they had ever done.

The Mets were under. 500 on June 1 and won 100 games and the WS.

Not expecting either of those things to happen.

Just calculated an interesting (and worrisome) stat on Yordan - it seems as though he has been streakier than usual this year. Unfortunately his "hitless" games are way up -
'23 pre injury - 16 hitless out of 57 total (28%)
'23 post IL stint - 13 hitless out of 57 total (23%)
'24 so far - 13 hitless out of 26 total (50%)

Makes me wonder if something is wrong w him.

I do think this team can get back to around .500, maybe a little better but this is an older team with pending big free agents from major players this year and next. That simply isn't good enough. If we had a bunch of young guys with a long future it would be a different story.

Like a week ago, I wasn't ready to press panic, after getting swept by the cubs, I think it's time to press PANIC, and if we get swept by the Rockies, I'll have no faith in this team. Still Love 'em just know it's gonna be a long season.

Wabs said:

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Next 15 obviously are critical games: 1 against the Braves today, then we've got the Nats, Cubs, Rockies, Guardians (home) and Mariners (home). Our record needs to somehow (and miraculously) be at least 16-18 after those games. That's going 10-5 to get back into the season.

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Welp.....we've gone 1-6 since I posted this.