James has a plus plus fastball and a plus plus changeup, with a decent slider. Put him in the rotation.
Totally agree with this. Put the best lineup out there for 10 games or so minus switching out Chirinos and Stassi
Anyone blaming the starters when our offense has scored 4 runs COMBINED in the last 3 games is all kinds of special.
Just get out of that hell hole of a stadium. We’ll be fine. No reason to change your opinion of this team after four games in a ballpark they’ve historically struggled in.
Well, not an ideal way to end Spring Training. But get hyped, opening day is finally here and we get to start the season by beating up on Arlington.
And the stupid begins again for 2019. BTW, 2 of their 3 hits and their only run today were by the guy that wouldn't have been in the lineup by this standard.
Well alright then. Blazing start to the bottom of the division. Fwut the wuck kind of effort was that ?
It seems like every year you have to come out and explain how baseball works again. 1-3, while not an ideal start, doesn’t mean much of anything.
If that’s what Miley gives us in the majority of his outings then I’ll love that. Too many base runners but he did a good job of minimizing damage.
As for the offense, given what little has been there is nearly all via the home run, should tell us something about not only our hitters approach to this point, but why it is failing.
The Astos scoring 5 runs in the opener may be one of the greatest accomplishments of the past couple of years. #TropicanaFieldProblems
TAM actually has a pretty nice team. 1-3 isn't ideal, but TAM is going to give a lot teams trouble this year. They need to stay healthy, but the return on Archer looks good (love Meadows/Glasnow), and they have formidable, young (cheap) players across the board. As for HOU, time to regroup against the minor league club in Arlington, and hopefully this series lit a fire in HOU. Sidenote, but the MLB really needs to re-do the playoff format. It's a shame that small market teams like TAM are pretty much pigeon-held into a one game wild card. If you look at percentages of teams that actually make the playoffs, MLB is dead last (and four of those teams get only a one-game play-in): MLB = 10/30 (33.3%), NFL = 12/32 (37.5%), NHL = 16/31 (51.6%), and NBA = 16/30 (53.3%). MLB should be show-casing teams like TAM towards the end of the season. There's a ton of quality MLB teams that get zilch after a good, 162-game seasons. Makes no sense (or cents).
