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Episode 51 of breathing orange fire is up. Listen rate and review. We talk about Spring training year to date and then project the OF.
The oh, it doesnt matter Spring duds. Grae Kessinger 0/6 Trey Cabbage 0/5 Jon Singleton 0/4 Plus 3 others. Spring Studs Mauricio Dubon 3/3 Shay Whitcomb 2/2 Dixon Machado 2/3 Joey Loperfido 2/4 Victor Caratini 2/4 https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/stats/_/name/hou/table/batting/sort/hits/dir/desc
Too small of a sample size to matter. However. Kessinger and Cabbage have struck out in over 60 percent of their at-bats with no walks. That's not a good sign especially when Cabbage really only needs to cut out his Ks to make it in the league.
There are always injury or performance concerns with every team in baseball - but outside of that, I feel really good about this Astros team. They should get more consistent production from catcher and first base, and they added the top reliever in baseball to their bullpen. They also have a number of possible candidates if Meyers doesn't play well. As long as Verlander is healthy in August, I am happy with him. On the pitching side the Astros will add two high leverage players in Garcia and McCullers in the second half - and I believe that France can replicate what he did. I wouldn't sleep on the Rangers, they have a couple very good young bats being added to the team - but if they do not add a starter from the Boras free agents, I am not sure they can win the division. The manager should run a more cohesive clubhouse and have a strong relationship with the front office.
Not that any results matter at this sample size, but I've low key thought all offseason that Joey Loperfido had a good chance to move in and steal the opening day job from the 4A players. Cabbage has options if they want to keep working on the K issue with our own people and who cares about Singleton.
Dylan Coleman does not look good. Dude can't find the plate and is missing his spots by several feet.
Not a great spring training for Coleman so far in 2 games. I thought he would surprise us and make the team and be useful but not looking good for him to make the team.
Dk was a bad mother ****er. That curveball was sick. His wife was also hot as **** and used to sub at my school back in the day.
I know it's spring training, but 0 runs and 2 hits in the last 12 innings. Only 1 run in the last 36 innings of play (since taking a 7-0 lead going into the 4th inning of game 1).
