Weathering this injury run, O slump, Super 2, tough schedule perfect storm

How are you getting June 3 as a Super 2 estimate?

 

We took 4 of 6 from the Red Sox who are back to their old selves and split a 4 game series against the white Sox who aren’t THAT bad. Why are we freaking out?

 

Don’t let the GARMers get you down, they’re a pest at these parts

 

Gotcha, you're going super conservative with the 120 days. We'll see what the Stros do, they're tracking all this stuff in real time a lot better than we can.

 

10 year average: 132

All they'd have to do is find an excuse to send him down for 10 days later this year..."uh, we need an extra bullpen arm/infielder/whatever?" I'm sure he'd love that.

 

Ha! That’d be awful if he was tearing it up- I can’t even imagine us going there outside of performance. Tucker obviously gave them back that year he’d earned last year by ******** the bed. It’s why I hated his call up last September. I get it, but it’s cost us three weeks this time around.

 

The Astros have a 6.5 game lead and their pitching has held up reasonably well. They may have lost the opportunity to have an all time great offensive season, but even if they play .500 ball over the next few weeks they’ll be fine.

 

Astros could weather a lot better by bringing up their top 2 Prospects who are ready at AAA. Instead, they are worried about an extra year 5-6 years down the line.

 

I will preface this by saying I am not a baseball purest in the sense that I don’t know history and trends and statistics etc. to the degree some do.

That said is a 6.5 game lead a comfortable lead given the shape we are currently in? I know in basketball 6.5 is a decent lead. But one series head to head in baseball and that 6.5 can be chopped pretty good.

 

This is even after the As have won 9 in a row. That’s gotta be demoralizing for them

 

There's nothing to "weather".

 

6.5 games can certainly be made up - and fairly quickly. But at the end of the day, the Astros are a far superior team - teams go up and down but the best teams almost always come out ahead in the end. People had all the same concerns and freaked out all summer last year when Oakland went nuts and actually caught the Astros from being 10 out or something. The Astros still won the division by 6 games.

 

Astros have been lucky to win with as few runs as they have scored. Astros are unlucky to have scored as few of runs.

Provide Mayfield doesn't bat much, offense should be slightly above average.