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The hitting has gone past small sample size excuses and is a problem e: but actually the bullpen is pissing me off even more so that's good fast cars loose anus fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Just the closers though, right?
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Apr 16, 2018 19:12
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I'm still not worrying. The offense is not clicking and is consistently down from last season. We're still 10-6 despite this, with the rotation look as advertised if not better. I still think we're the team to beat in the AL West. Look at the Dodgers as an example of a time to start really worrying.
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Mods please change the thread title please
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Apr 16, 2018 22:50
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The Astro Lounge: the hits stop coming and they don't start coming
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Something to enjoy, anywayquote:Of note is Gerrit Cole, who struck out 14 batters on Friday, giving him 36 K's for the season. That's the most by any pitcher in his first three games with a team since the mound was moved to its current distance in 1893, according to Elias Sports Bureau research.
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Bats dead so what
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what is this offense you speak of
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Apr 17, 2018 05:33
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Need an av of the entire team surrounded by empty champagne bottles with everyone holding ice packs to their heads 
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So our new jam is just stranding Runners on base huh
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Apr 18, 2018 03:48
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So it's still early but who's vastly underperformed so far? My vote goes to Gattis.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
At least he plays defense and has hit a couple of home runs.
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Make sure you catch Evan Gattis brain farting into the dumbest triple play you've ever seen e: https://twitter.com/BenDuBose/status/987069332235718663 e2: also while I'm here the underperformer for me is Marisnick who couldn't even lay down a bunt today fast cars loose anus fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Apr 19, 2018 |
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TheChirurgeon posted:So our new jam is just stranding Runners on base huh The RISP jam is an old Astros Easter egg. If they strand enough runners in a game Jim Edmonds will appear and jack a three run homer.
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Astros... Good again?
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Kirios posted:Astros... Good again? No. Mariners.
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Astros still good, but also Mariners
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No Safe Word posted:Astros still good, but also Mariners White Sox too But that's why they're called slump busters, as if playing .667 ball is a slump
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Our opponents so far this year are the Rangers, Os, Twins, Mariners, White Sox, and Padres who are all probably bad except maybe the Twins. It's upsetting for different reasons but the offensive improvement the last week is real.
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Our starting pitching this year is so much better and it owns
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Our starting pitching is 100% legitimate. However, I'm being cautious about how good the team truly is until we start facing serious competition. Lets be honest, the Astros should beat up on teams like the Mariners and the White Sox. We're about to hit a month-long stretch where we play two series with the Angels, two with the Yankees, two with the Indians, one with the Diamondbacks and one with the Red Sox. Come June 4th we'll have a much, much better idea of where the Astros truly stand.
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congrats on winning the world series.
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27-2 in a 3 game series. HR from the DH, Marwin hitting a couple of ground rule doubles, and the non-Fisher/Marisnick lineup is hitting very well. Oh, and our starting pitching is ridiculous. Looking forward to the first real test of the season against the Angels to see if this team is for real or just beating up on lovely teams.
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Man the AL West course corrected so fast I think I have whiplash
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Intruder posted:Man the AL West course corrected so fast I think I have whiplash Thanks Red Sox!
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Sab0921 posted:27-2 in a 3 game series. HR from the DH, Marwin hitting a couple of ground rule doubles, and the non-Fisher/Marisnick lineup is hitting very well. Oh, and our starting pitching is ridiculous. Good teams should beat up on lovely teams, though. Those are the games they're supposed to win
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The Astros are dead again.
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Oh hey good to know the offense sucks again!
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The bottom of the lineup is a real problem.
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Crush (my hopes) City
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This thread's gonna be a rollercoaster all season huh
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Pretty cool how Joe Smith turned from elite to garbage the second he became an Astro, as is the fate of any free agent bullpen pitcher they sign
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Got two free tickets for tomorrow's day game for anyone who wants them - send me a PM - if no one responds by the morning, I'll give them to someone else.
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Hey so I know we don't have the league's best record but I want to point out that as we near the end of April, the Astros are playing .643 baseball and have the league's best run differential, and are 4th in total runs scored and have the best pitching in the AL, with a combined ERA of 2.63 and an AL-leading 280 strikeouts. What I'm saying is, it's OK to feel alright about the team so far this season
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It's hard to be that upset about a team that is 19-10 and is actually outperforming their record. Sure, you wish a few players were playing better than they are, but eh, the Astros are once again going to be one of the 2-3 best teams in the league.
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Marwin isn't having the contract year I was hoping for, and I'd be glad he's tanking his value if not for the fact that they'll probably let him walk anyway and, you know, they need him to play well this year
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This got lost in the N/V thread for April so I'm gonna cross-/re-post it here.Intruder posted:It feels like the Astros have struggled this year so it's weird that they have the third best record in baseball. If the bats ever fully wake up, hoo boy I'm not sure this is a real problem, nor that I'd say the team is "struggling." Through 29 games, the team has scored more runs than last year, and also has a significantly better run differential.  On the whole, there are probably two reasons you feel this way--the first is because several specific players have hit fewer dingers than last year--Altuve is only on pace for 11 HRs right now, but is batting .347 with an OPS above his career average. Springer on the other hand is on pace for 32 HRs, in-line with last year's 34 total and Correa's on pace for 22, in-line with last year's 24. Springer's doing slightly worse this year in OBP/OPS, while Correa is playing about as well as he did last season. Bregman's only on pace for 5 HRs (he hit 11 last year), but he's getting on base more. And the second is because our SLG percentage is in-fact down compared to last season's full totals (though again, remember that we did not start white-hot)--.752 OPS so far this season vs .823 for all of last season. The flipside is that so far we've been grounding into double plays at a lower rate this season (0.72 per game so far vs. 0.86 last year) and our on-base percentage is pretty much unchanged (.340 this year vs .346 for all of last season). Really I think it's going to boil down to what you think is/is not sustainable, both from last year and this year. It's pretty likely we'll see Altuve return to form as the season goes on, and I think we'll start seeing more dingers, but I don't think it's likely we're going to match last year's HR rate (1.47 vs. 1.1 so far this year). But again, most of that increased production happened later in the season, so there's still lots of time for us to catch up. So yeah, I think Altuve will bust out of his slump, but I wouldn't say the team has struggled. and our starting pitching got way better--Verlander, Cole, and Morton have been lights-out (I suspect Keuchel will lower his ERA a bit, but we'll see). Try to be happy with the team being "just" one of the best in baseball :P e: Also goddamn look at that  e2: Because I can't help myself, I'll also point out that this isn't a problem that is isolated to the Astros, who I maintain are still doing very well: https://twitter.com/jareddiamond/status/990970089758437376 TheChirurgeon fucked around with this message at 14:27 on May 1, 2018 |
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