Since Aug 27th, here is the most dominant stretch of pitching you'll ever see by a bullpen: 36 IP 15 H 3 ER 9 BB 43 K 2-1 Record 5 Saves, No blown saves 0.75 ERA 0.67 WHIP 10.75 K/9IP
The Astros are 13th all time in winning pct and could conceivably jump all the way to 8th all time if they won roughly between 92-95 games over the next 3 seasons. 8th all time? Yeah that's pretty damn good.
All this made 10x more impressive coming from an expansion team, that means this team's been a consistently good product since the 70s.
Atlanta has taken the 2nd seed from the Mets. Yankees down to a 3.5 game lead. NY fans are having fits. I love it.
He was fine. He made a nice play scooping a batter ball hit much harder than a thrown ball out of the dirt. he’s an athletic man that has played baseball all his life- he will be able to scoop the ball.
Chas McCormick now has 661 PA in his career, effectively one full season. 27 HR, 97 RBI, .755 OPS, 3.9 WAR and his defensive metrics as a CF are in positive territory. I still think he's best suited as platoon player with a lefty stealing some of his games to maximize efficiency, but there is zero f**king discussion about him being our best current option in CF. Given we lack said lefty he should be starting every single game.
It is weird the way Dusty acts as if he only has two options at the #2 spot, Yuli or Pena. In my mind both should be towards the bottom of the order. You put Bregman at #2 and slide Tucker, Mancini, McCormick up. I know Pena had a good game last night but to me it makes more sense to have Bregs there.
Apparently this is the Ohtani batting order. Same thing last Saturday with Yuli moving to 2 with Peña to the back of the order.
