He doesn’t like him? Like he didn’t like Chas? I agree he should be hitting much more… but c’mon. It’s become silly as far as basing all of this on personal vendettas. Also not sure whose theoretical numbers are more accurate… yours or the post above, but slightly different expectations. He does need to hit lefties to avoid all of this with future managers… but till he does it, he hasn’t done it.
Reading through this thread, one might think Diaz hardly bats at all. July AB's Maldy...59 Diaz......72 August AB's Maldy...9 Diaz.....14 https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/stats/_/name/hou/split/43/table/batting/sort/atBats/dir/desc https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/stats/_/name/hou/split/44/table/batting/sort/atBats/dir/desc
Contrarian bullshit. Whoever is clinging to Dusty’s lame excuse about lefties, and then citing Diaz’s minor league numbers, are just trying to sound smart (same idiots). It’s just contrarian bullshit. It’s the opposite of smart if you are saying maldy should play because of how Diaz does vs lefties. Especially based on these small sample sizes. Just let go of that final, ultra thin thread and jump on the Diaz train. You’re already late, it’s leaving the station.
People were referring to his comments yesterday as far as why Kessinger playing first…. A game where more offense likely would have made a difference (as opposed to whatever weird ****ing tangent of a game that’s stuck in your head).
Thats the same excuse there was early in the season for why Diaz wasn't playing. We all said the expected numbers are great and he will hit once the sample size grows, and he did. Now I don't think he personally dislikes Diaz, I think he just wrong and thinks he's right about a players ability. He also is extremely petty and hates being proven wrong. He never wanted to play Chaz as a starter until his results became too extreme to keep ignoring. He should have been the opening day starter this season and the everyday starter most of last season. Instead the great Dubon took a lot of his AB's.
He also benched Chas last year when he batted better against lefties saying that the numbers weren't everything despite great splits against lefties...
He has 5 more PA than Corey Julks since the start of July, and one more start since Yordan came back.
This is like pencilling in Biggio into the lineup every day after he got 3000 hits just out of seniority... except Maldy never did anything to earn it.
Except for the bullpen... I am against having a lefty in the pen just to have a lefty because Dusty needs ro be saved from himself.
I just think it’s silly of you on one second to use advanced analytics and expected numbers to justify a point… and on the other hand, you blame personal vendettas. Might as well suggest they should wear the orange or blue colored uniforms in everybodys starts… not just Framber’s… because they won the WS in them. He does play a lot of guys who don’t always deserve it. Whether or not that works out better for that player in the long run (and thus for the team in the long run) remains to be seen…
You have a strange obsession with the most obscure periods of Astros seasons in their history… nobody cared that Biggio was taking AB’s away from Mark Loretta.
WTF is this strawman nonsense supposed to mean. He doesn't like a guy (either for personal or incorrectly perceived ability reasons) he won't give them the benefit of the doubt, if he does he will (Dubon, Julks). And FWIW, yes I 100% believe the Chas playing time issue was personal.
Ok… your opinion… not based on a whole lot (hence that other comment). I don’t believe any manager who’s been in the league this long personally holds vendettas. Dusty may like some guys more than they deserve… but there’d be a lot more players speaking out against him throughout his long-ass history of managing if he held personal grudges. That **** doesn’t really get keep under wraps, especially when the manager leaves the situation, or the players’ true potential (and earning potential) was impacted because of a manager personally holding something other than his play against him.
His arguments are that personal vendettas are more important than advanced metrics for Dusty... so how is sealclubber1016 contradicting himself?
Rutschman has 473 plate appearances on the year and his backup 141. That's about what one would expect when you have an all star catcher on the team. Yainer is an even better hitter and throws out runners much better than Rutschman. This is not Robinson Chirinos vs Maldonado. This is one of the top three hitting catchers in all of baseball against Maldonado - the absolute worst in baseball. We are talking about the likely AL silver slugger at catcher had he played the whole year. Most debates have room for two sides. This one does not. We may as well be debating Kyle Tucker vs Julks.
Because one of them is based on pure conjecture. Any other players in his history of managing that he held personal vendettas against? Gotta be at least one if it’s true? Or did this just start in Houston?
