I don't mind Diaz at first today, but dang. The players might be questioning Dusty's mental makeup at this point.
When the national media begins to question the Astro's lineup selections, something is amiss. I hope we are not dealing with some gambling issue. That would be a massive scandal. Surely the MLB rules forbid team personnel from betting on games.
Maybe Abreu is going to be out longer than expected or Dana has told Dusty we're starting the best offensive player at first in the playoffs regardless so get Diaz more experience at first. Brantley/Yordan will get the DH starts so give Diaz the starts at first when he isn't catching.
Welp. The Astros just have to find a way to win Doesn’t matter that their manager is broken or that the catcher is broken or that Julks is back. All excuses are useless in the end either they overcome all of this AND Tucker missing or they don’t.
Based on everything the insiders like Nook have said, it seems likely that Dusty is getting less lineup control as we hit the stretch run.
Yeah, need to bench every one of those guys who didn't get a hit. Pitching Verlander on the day he was going to give up five runs in five innings was pretty dumb, too, but we won that one.
Figure out a way to scratch out a win today and tomorrow and let's get this back to no worse than 1 1/2 games back.
Figure out a way to scratch out a win today and tomorrow and let's get this back to no worse than 1 1/2 games back. And even more importantly put Seattle 4 1/2 games back of us.
