Not overly worried about Seattle, if the Astros cannot win 60% of those games against Seattle then they don't deserve a wildcard. The schedule gets very easy the last 2.5 weeks of the season.
7 of 9 looks nicer when you ignore the 5-game losing streak preceding it. I'll gladly take 2/3 from any team, but the season is dwindling and our only easy match-up left is LAA (granted, 7 games). With 32 games left, 19 are against TEX/CHC/SEA/CLE. We gotta keep winning series, but a sweep against a bottom-feeder would've been a nice hedge for the series to come.
With Reed not showing much I think making a strong run at Encarnacion from Toronto might make for a perfect fit. A lineup up of: Springer Bregman Altuve Correa Encarnacion Gurriel Gattis Hernandez FA left fielder Thats would be a pretty strong lineup.
As opposed to having a lefty who can't hit? Having a left handed bat in the lineup just because doesn't make much sense at all. If the choice is Reed vs Encarnacion you take Edwin all day every day, unless Reed starts showing he can be a competent hitter at the MLB level. Also, you'd still have Marwin as a switch hitting option, and I wouldn't mind if they went after Josh Reddick to finish out the proposed lineup.
Yup kinda similar to Sipp. Do we really him or would another RHP be better? If you suck you suck. And both Reed and Sipp sucks
Yeah. Looked like Springer thought Archer was hotdogging it, and Archer was telling him he was just having fun. You could more or less read his lips. Springer overreacted I thought.
