Carlos Gomez is awful. And what happened to Valbuena this year? His production has tailed off tremendously. Guess last year was an outlier for him.
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This is exactly what it reminds me of. Throwing a hodgepodge of crappy players together and trotting them out onto the field everyday to get waxed by the opposition. What a joke.
The year of the "F@@k you, Houston!". Unbelievable what we have to put up with for professional sports teams this year. I can't wait to see what the Texans do.
Astros simply dont have a competitive payroll Until they finally want to spend like the big boys - the suckage will continue Crane & Co. are running a scam and it will hurt alot less if gullible Astro fans understand that
I'm now officially worried about the Astros, after 21 games. They still have plenty of time to turn it around...but this team is in trouble in all phases of the game. Even Keuchel and Correa have been performing poorly. Young teams generally don't handle adversity well. I'm starting to wonder if last season was a fluke.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Keuchel: "We’re still playing sloppy and it’s not going to change until something or some people, you know, play well."</p>— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/725201739629121536">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Keuchel: "We have people busting their tails and doing everything they possibly can and it seems like we’re not a cohesive unit."</p>— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/725202058035515392">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I don't think it was a fluke but there has been this expectation from the organization and the fans that they're just going to get better every year. That's not really how it goes in baseball with teams that don't have players with a long track record of success. If anything was flukish last year it was the pitching staff. Feldman, Fiers, and Fister don't scare anybody and McHugh isn't a sure thing exactly. So when Keuchel struggles we're not a good team. The bottom half of the order is just not very good either after Rasmus. This is a .500 team really.
I complained about the front office failing to make real additions to the starting rotation and was pretty much shot down by a number of posters. The fan base in this city love drinking the Kool Aid of these front offices of our teams and love to make excuses for them. When the teams fall flat on their asses, people then wonder "What went wrong?" The Astros coming into this year with the rotation they had and the suckage at the bottom of the lineup couldn't have been serious about real contention. The team overachieved for about a month last year at the beginning of the year and had everyone thinking they were primed for the World Series this year. The front office should have known better.
Maybe last year was a fluke. We had a couple of amazing months and it made it look like we were a team ready to contend for years to come. Maybe in reality we are only a partially built team and our most recent trades have made us worse.
