this team is nauseating, and myers is terrible. haha mills taking out myers now. some managers can pull all the right strings. mills is proving to be the exact opposite.
Its too bad we only play 3 games at Coors every year. The difference in Myers between last year and this year has been giving up the long ball again. He gave up 20 all of last year. That was his 12th so far this season.
I wonder how many games the Astros have led in the 5th inning or later and lost this year. Seems like a ton. Go to the bullpen, and they blow the save. Stick with the starter and he gives it up. What can you do?
I saw a stat last week that said the Stros only win 61% of games when leading after 7. The next worse team was 81%, or something like that.
leave a starter in too long, leave crappy relievers in too long or continuing to trot crappy relievers out there to fail time and again - whatever. seems like whatever move "millsy" makes is the wrong one.
This is the problem and it's not all Mills' fault. Myers actually pitched pretty darn well but the Barmus error was HUGE. It was obivous Myers was done after the sixth but the bullpen is SOOOOOOOO bad that it came down to a dead tired Myers or a crappy bullpen guy in the 7th. Myers has regrouped nicely the last two starts and if Mills would have pulled him after the sixth, he would have had a nice start that should have been great. Barmus is in the lineup for his glove, in fact the only reason he is starting over Sanchez is his glove. He needs to be Adam Everett perfect or he should be on the bench where he belongs. Finally, the bullpen is a joke beyond Melancon and usually Fulchino. Problem is, you can't keep doing what you did today and last Sunday. Either start dumping dead weight, like they've been doing, or just go with what you have and hope they regroup.
Losing teams make losing plays...yuck. If Myers and Wandy are both still here past the deadline...I might vomit blood.
On the bright side... CJ is hitting .277 in May with 3 hrs and 8 rbis...not great but better than April.
I hope y'all enjoyed watching the best hitter in baseball at the moment. He's acting like he's Barry Bonds out there.
I'm a Joey Votto fan as well, he's from my home town. But at this point NOBODY is hitting better than Bautista, the guy has no protection in the lineup either, which makes what he is doing even more remarkable. Too bad he's playing on a Canadian team or else he'd be making more headlines. But if he keeps up what he is doing the American media will have no choice but to put the spotlight on him.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/powerrankings Money trumps strategy in Houston, where Brett Wallace is in a platoon situation because of his .241 batting average against lefties, while Carlos Lee plays every day despite his .222 BA versus righties. -- Austin Swafford: Austin's Astros 290 Blog
