He's worked up to 100 pitches in his last start in AAA, so yeah, it'd be good to make him work and get into their pen early.
Big zone so far for everybody. Let's get JV some more runs and let the man go rocking chair on these clowns.
Once. A forced smile when Tony Kemp gave him a hug after a 4 bagger. Does anyone know when its Correas last arbitration year?
After the way he played last year I thought he would we looking for a new job this year. Reddick has really turned it around and I hope he can keep it up.
Good little article from astros.com about what he's doing differently: "It's too cliche, but I'm not trying to do too much," said Reddick, who's hitting .365 this season. "I'm just going up there and using what they're going to give me and I had a pretty significant hole over there on the left side today. If they keep pitching away, I'm going to try to keep going that way until they come in. It's a matter of just riding this wave as long as I can because eventually it will come crashing down and I've got to get back up on that board and go again." [me: yes, surfing is a metaphor for life] ... "Whether they're trying to come and just missing right now, is one thing," Reddick said. "I know my second at-bat [Odorizzi] was trying to hammer me in with [Brantley] at second base to kind of jam me and get the rollover in that shift. Fortunately, I was able to foul off a lot of pitches and get the one I was able to handle." Reddick hit well to the opposite field in 2017, when he had one of the best seasons of his career, but wasn't as proficient last year, when he was more focused on the inner third of the plate and got away from his approach and started pulling off the ball. "That's when I'm right, where I'm 100 percent where I need to be is going that way and not trying to pull everything into the upper deck," Reddick said. "Those things will come. Like [Sunday], I wasn't even trying to hit a homer and it went out. Just got to go up there with the same mental approach and same thought and things will work out like they did today."
