Spoiler Astros are. . . 24th in BA(.243; only Tampa worse in AL) T-16th in OBP(.321; T-8th in AL) 14th in SLG(.417; 9th in AL) 16th in OPS(.738; 10th in AL) 16th in runs scored(470; 10th in AL) 24th in hits(874; only Tampa is worse in AL) T-12th in doubles(183; T-6th in AL) T-9th in HRs(134; T-5th in AL) T-9th in XBH(336; 5th in AL) T-15th in RBI(449; T-9th in AL) 4th in BB(386; 2nd in AL) 3rd in Ks(971; 1st in AL) RISP: .248 BA(21st) | .339 OBP(14th) | .418 SLG(12th) | .757 OPS(13th) RISP w/ 2 outs: .210 BA(27th) | .321 OBP(18th) | .364 SLG(17th) | .685 OPS(18th)
How does Hudgens wake up tomorrow with a job? All BSing aside, someone needs to be looking in the mirror here if he's still on the Astros payroll come Friday.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sounds like we're going to have to wait until at least tomorrow to find out the extent of McCullers' injury. He didn't seem too worried.</p>— Jordan Ray (@JordanLRay) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanLRay/status/760695122438815745">August 3, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
It is simply unreal the amount of people who work for professional sports teams, across all spectrums, who do an absolutely pathetic job and still find gainful employment. I can go in everyday and stink up everything I do, I'll be shown the door in a matter of days if that. Yet you have people attaining positions with no skill and then are paid well to do a **** job.
1) There's probably a lot of stuff behind the scenes that you are not aware of. I'm not saying you're wrong; I'm just not as quick to call someone terrible at their job based on watching baseball through my own eyes backed up by internet knowledge. 2) There is actually a theory of incompetence about this taught in the public admin field. I'm not too familiar with it, but I think it goes along the lines of people keep getting promoted until they're terrible at their current job, and that's when they stop getting promoted. So that person is not excellent at their, or they'd still be getting promoted. I could be totally off, but I think it's something like that. Please, someone with better knowledge of that theory correct me.
I didn't even remember that the hitting coach's name was Hudgens and there probably wasn't a single post about him prior to the last 24 hours. Now there is a whole thread on him and he's everyone wants him hired in here.
Can the Astros hit their weight? Jose Altuve 165 lbs 0.360 Alex Bregman 182 lbs 0.031 Carlos Correa 215 lbs 0.263 Marwin Gonzalez 203 lbs 0.256 A.J. Reed 275 lbs 0.143 Tyler White 224 lbs 0.204 Carlos Gomez 218 lbs 0.217 Jake Marisnick 218 lbs 0.221 Colby Rasmus 195 lbs 0.216 George Springer 212 lbs 0.258 Evan Gattis 269 lbs 0.223 Preston Tucker 212 lbs 0.167 Luis Valbuena DL15 217 lbs 0.260 Jason Castro 212 lbs 0.207 Colin Moran 203 lbs 0.105 Erik Kratz 214 lbs 0.069 Max Stassi 197 lbs 0.000 Matt Duffy 208 lbs 0.000 Tony Kemp 163 lbs 0.238 Danny Worth 204 lbs 0.179 Average Team Weight: 210 lbs Team Batting Average: .243
Or go back to AAA...provided that the team's primary goal is making the playoffs this season. If we're punting on 2016, then fine...keep 'em all up and give them as many opportunities as you can. But having guys like that in the lineup is costing us opportunities to potentially win the division at this point.
I will bring some positivity to this thread. Musgrove's pitching was excellent. Could he get a start soon to see what he has? Would hate for him to only be used in long relief situations. Fiers pitched well last time so I think you still go with him but maybe you consider a 6 man rotation? Or resting Kuechel or McCullers if his injury is even remotely something to worry about? He could be too valuable a weapon to just pitch every 5 or 6 games when we are already down 5 or 6 runs. We already have Devenski for that role although Devenski seems like he can handle an inning or two of high leverage bullpen work instead of just long relief. This might be crazy but is Gomez showing signs of life? He will go through a 5 game stretch where he is showing some improvement then will revert to his old ways. His approach on the double last night was good. Also, his approach against Dickey was good. No coming out of his shoes from what I remember. He is 6 for his last 20 with 2 doubles, 1 BB, 5 K's, 2 SB's. I will take that from him over the rest of the season at this point. An OPS of 0.733 but he is just hard to trust to ever be close to the player he was just over a year ago. If he does struggle again, I think we should just platoon Jake and Rasmus out there in CF for a couple of weeks and let Gomez stu on the bench for awhile Chris Carter style and then maybe give him another shot in 2 weeks or so. I also think at this point we just let Bregman and Reed figure out MLB pitching. Last night was a tough game against one of the better knuckleballers. I say give them until Marwin, Valbuena AND Gurriel are with the squad and send one of them down that is struggling. Reed might be redundant with Valbuena/Gurriel in the fold so he may have to take this chance by the horns if he wants to stay up with the big club. Bregman also has about 2 weeks to start producing to see if we can force him to LF/utility once Gurriel arrives. Please baseball gods let these 2 young guys see the light. Also, we need the baseball gods to shine on McCullers and hope he doesn't miss more than 1 start. Any idea what happened to him exactly?
Who are we gonna replace them with? Tyler white? Danny worth? Colin Moron? Or some other AAAA player?
Would be interesting to see what the averages would be like without Altuve! He is the outlier on weight and average.
Fair point...my assumption is that guys like Marwin and Valbuena will be back and healthy soon. That's really what I meant. At this point..if the goal is to make the playoffs in 2016..it seems to me that you can't hand Marwin's or Valbuena's AB's to Reed and Bregman.
Did a shortcut to the averages and calculated 212 lbs avg. weight and avg of 0.236 for the team without Altuve included.
