seems like MLB has tunred into an overreact to 1 game like everything else league: the rangers are playing .500 ball since sept 4th!!!!! they should just quit and start rebuilding for the next season.
You are exactly right on this, and it's frustrating as hell that they've continued to take this approach even though they're in a battle to make the playoffs.
"Brett Wallace, Villar, Singleton, Krause, Preston Tucker" One of these things is not like the other.
It is frustrating... again, its crazy that 40 man roster spots are so precious, but a 25 man roster spot is meaningless? And it sucks to even be that guy on the team that everybody knows should never play... Carter would be doing himself a favor if he just requested to be released (maybe that was the plan all along). As long as Carter is somewhere on the bench, he's still going to get a spot start here and there... especially if somebody gets injured... and will still be called upon to pinch hit.
Fox Sports SW is probably getting a nice boost in ratings in Houston thanks to Astros fans tuning in to Rangers games to root for them to lose.
My point was that a 900+ OPS in the AAA level may translate to a .600-.725 OPS in the Majors. Which is a very poor to below average player. OPS Range A- Great (.9000 and Higher) B- Very Good (.8333 to .8999) C- Above Average (.7667 to .8333) D- Average (.7000 to .7666) E- Below Average (.6334 to .6999) F- Poor (.5667 to .6333) G- Atrocious (.5666 and Lower) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-base_plus_slugging
We do. I don't like that Houston airs Dallas sports but for this month it's nice to look in on Ranger games.
Luck, nothing else. History has consistently shown that run differential has an extremely strong correlation to the playoffs. There is no such thing as being better at winning close games. Since 1995 only 5 teams have made the postseason with less than a projected 85 win season. Two of them did so by winning extremely weak divisions (82 wins), so realistically only 3 teams in 20 seasons have made the playoffs by grossly outperforming their projection. Now that guarantees nothing, it could be the perfect storm of bad luck for us and good luck for them and we most certainly could miss the postseason, but they aren't a better team than us, even with Hamels.
Preston Tucker is sitting at .753 OPS right now. Which according to that chart, is actually closer to "above average" than it is the floor of "average". Also, he was hitting much better, scuffled for a couple weeks, then starting warming up again right before he was sent down. So if anything his OPS is lower right now than it was on average for him. MY point was just that he is absolutely nothing like those guys you grouped him with.
He was not warming up right before being sent down. In the week before he went down, he was 3-21. In the 3 weeks before being sent down, he had a 0.150 AVG and sub-0.500 OPS.
He only went hitless in 6 out of his last 13 games. Some people may not recall but he was having tough luck with a lot of balls put into play. He wasn't striking out at all really and was making consistent contact the whole month of August.
Two days off should do Correra good as well as Springer. If their bats get HOT along with the rest of the team watch out. Astros took a step back putting Springer back in the lineup but had no choice. Had to at some point. Lost a couple games because of it but NOW hopefully they're about to springboard. Just imagine if Correra and Springer would've been hot with their bats last night...if Springer would've hit that home run that he got robbed from having...hmmm
This is not good. Going hitless in half your games and 1-4 in the others makes you a 0.125 BA player. His strikeout rate in August was higher than his season average. He struck out in 11 of 46 at bats (24%). For comparison, he struck out 15% of the time in July (13 out of the 86 ABs).
Which game did they lose because Springer's rusty bat was back in the lineup? He adds just a tremendous amount of value with his speed, defense, arm alone... in addition to his stellar bat. Agreed that having a lineup of Springer/Altuve/Correa/Gomez/Lowrie is just going to be a helluva lot of fun for the rest of the season. A lot of versatility there on both sides of the ball.
If he only could have got that ball against the Twins. I think rust is partly to blame for that. Of course, the only advantage to Springer being out, would have been Marisnick in RF and he might have made the play.
True I agree with your comments. Versatility bodes well for the Stros! Yea I shoulda said "Rusty Glove" or just plain "Rust" so to speak...the Twins game where he misjudged the catch that allowed 2 runs to score...that's a normal routine catch for Springer if he was playing everyday not coming back from the injury first game back. As a whole, his bat is Rusty in comparison to how HOT he was playing prior to being injured. Once he gets back into "full swing" Astros are gonna be tough to deal with coming down this home stretch..at least that's what I'm hoping for versus all their bats going cold. To be determined but if last night was any indicator of what we can expect moving forward then OH BOY
