Please nothing. It's one thing to say, as many have, that Giles is having a bad inning. Calling him a scrub? That literally is a stupid statement. Scrubs aren't #5 in the league in saves. Fail!
It's not hard to compile It's not hard to compile saves when you're the closer for one of the top 3 teams in baseball. He's never been an elite closer. I will say he's better than last year.
I'm not going to argue with stupidity. It's real simple- you think he's a scrub, I think you're an idiot. You are welcome to your opinion, as am I.
I don't think Giles is a scrub, but his ERA is misleading he's given up alot of hits that don't lead to runs
Not quite sure what that means. Over the course of the season, Giles has given up 43 hits in 60 innings. In his last 30 games he has given up runs in 3 of them.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/astros...r-trade-just-two-seconds-spare-172517548.html August 31, 2017 was a pretty crazy night. It was the waiver trade deadline for MLB, which meant it was every team’s last chance to work out a trade for a player and still have that player be eligible for the postseason. The craziness of that night is mostly owed to the Houston Astros, the Detroit Tigers, and starting pitcher Justin Verlander. The two teams worked out a trade that sent Verlander from the Tigers to the Astros, and it went right down to the wire of the 12 midnight EDT deadline. Jon Heyman already reported that the trade was done with just a minute to go,but apparently 60 seconds was an overestimation. The trade was verified with mere seconds left before the deadline. Ben Reiter of SI.com spoke to Tigers GM Al Avila and Astros GM Jeff Luhnow and got a timeline of the night the deal happened, right down to the final seconds. And while the end of the deal was crazy, Luhnow’s part of the story is pretty wild. He had planned to do his waiver trade deals from Houston, surrounded by his staff, but was with his in-laws in Los Angeles instead — Hurricane Harvey had closed the Houston airports. So according to Reiter, his trade deadline war room looked a little different than it had in the past. So, as his club flew to Tampa to play a relocated series against the Rangers, he stayed in L.A. to negotiate from one of the only spots in his in-laws’ house that receives strong cell service: the dining room table. Not ideal, but there are worse places to set up shop in a house than the dining room. It could have been the bathroom, which would have involved stories of Luhnow making this deal while sitting fully clothed on a toilet, using it like a chair. Actually, the bathroom did come into play. Luhnow was about to take a shower when his phone somehow found a signal and delivered a call from Avila a few minutes before 8 p.m. PDT, just over an hour before the deadline. The two GMs agreed on the deal, but it wasn’t done. Verlander had to weigh in and waive his no-trade clause if he agreed to it, and it wasn’t certain he would. Avila had sent people out to track down Verlander, so all Luhnow could do was go back to the dining room and wait. The dining room had its own problems, though. Luhnow’s in-laws were hosting a dinner party that night, which meant that his war room was now filled with food and plates and silverware and people. This moment was probably pretty awkward. The dinner guests were filling their plates with food from the kitchen buffet and settling in around Luhnow. “We’ve got four minutes left!” he shouted into his phone to his staff, drawing quizzical glances from the diners. “We’ve got to do this now!” Luhnow didn’t end up finding out if the deal was done until 15 minutes after the deadline had passed. This is what an MLB executive told him on the phone. “The deal’s been approved,” the executive said. “But, Jeff, don’t ever put me through that again. We received final verification from Verlander at 11:59 and 58 seconds.” Two seconds to spare! That has to be a record. At the very least it’s a great story. And if Verlander ends up helping the Astros in the postseason (or even to a World Series victory), it’s a story that will go down in both Astros and baseball lore, one that we’ll tell for years to come. More MLB coverage from Yahoo Sports. I would pay someone to Photoshop Luhnow in the Last Supper painting over this (yes, probably a bit sacrilegious, but it is technically a DaVinci interpretation of the L.S.).
He has a WHIP of 1.00 and a BAA of under 0.200. In the AL, he's pretty much 2nd to Kimbrel as far as closers go.
Bauer since the all-star break is pitching about as well as Morton and McHugh since the all-star break (slightly better ERA, worse WHIP and BAA). If they have 3 aces based on that, we have 5 of them.
Bauer? Kluber 2.35 ERA Clevinger 3.13 ERA Carrasco 3.48 ERA They may have 3 aces, but Bauer isn't one of them (though he performs like one against us).
Verlander's four starts as an Astro: Sept 5th @ Sea 6 IP 1 R 6 H 1 BB 7 K (Won 3-1) Sept 12th @ LAA 8 IP 0 R 1 H 1 BB 9 K (Won 1-0) Sept 17th Sea 7 IP 1 R 3 H 1 BB 10 K (Won 7-1) Sept 22nd LAA 7 IP 0 R 1 H 2 BB 6 K (Won 3-0) 4 starts 28 IP 2 R 11 H 5 BB 32 K ('Stros 4-0)
