This is the most disappointed I've been in this team in a while. The Astros were doormats most of this series. The Astros really raise to the occasion usually when it matters and this series mattered. The organization has lost its edge this year.
search through his gut and see if anyone can get hot just like tucker and chas got hot in july. if nothing is there, time to just hang it up johnnie.
Astros have almost as many losses this season as they had all of last year and there's still well over a month to play.
Meyers who hits lefties pretty good. If the game was extended then you had Hensley to cover first base.
Please cut Maldonado. I don't want to start rooting against the Astros, but I just about want to with Dusty and Maldonado doing their thing. This is one of those intangible things that a manager does that ends up having a much greater impact than simply what is happening on the field.
I've never seen us look like someone's b**** over the last 6 seasons like we have against the Mariners this season.
The whole dynamic with Dusty and Maldy especially has been a cancer the longer the season has gone on and it has slowly killed the team.
I know you stopped at 6 because if you said 7 you’d have to say Rangers in 2016 and that was so painful
Bagwell (and maybe Jim too) deserves Musty & Moldy. “Baseball guys”, none of that nerd cave analytic ****. “WeVe GoNe toO FaR oN AnAlYtIcs!” If Jeffrey had his way, we’d have baseball guy GM Brad Ausmus, baseball guy Musty Faker, and baseball guy Martin Moldynado would start 140ish games. We got a 90s manager managing in 2023 and a catcher that wouldn’t start for any other team. Spoiler Jim Crane’s key & trusted advisers •Ausmus’ ties with Bagwell, whose voice has grown more prominent within the organization this winter, can not be discounted. Bagwell vouched for Ausmus during Abreu’s introductory news conference in December — the same day Bagwell bemoaned baseball’s excessive reliance on analytics. •“The main thing we want to do here is, I don’t want to hear windows,” Bagwell said. “I want to hear every single year we have a chance to win. That’s how we have to base our decisions: short-term, but the long-term in the back of our minds. Like how are we going to be in three years, five years, 7-10 (years).” •“We have Lee and Diaz. I personally have not seen enough of them to make a decision on either of those two,” Bagwell said. “I know what we have in Maldy, which is one of the best teammates and (being) all about winning as I’ve seen. Everything he does is about winning and I love Maldy.” •“He’s a line drive hitter,” said Hall of Famer Jeff Bagwell, who visited Abreu in Miami to help the Astros finish the deal. “He drives in a lot of big runs. There’s a lot of guys that can drive in 80-90 runs. This guy has driven in over 100. He drives in big runs. He knows how to do that. We can get him in our lineup, that can only do stuff to benefit us.” •After acknowledging his growing role in the franchise's makeshift front office, Hall of Famer Jeff Bagwell on Tuesday bemoaned the Astros' reliance on analytics and asserted that “this game is played by humans, man. It’s not played by computers.” “The game has advanced so much,” Bagwell said. “But at the end of the day, it’s about driving runs in, scoring runs, getting 27 outs before the other team. That never changes. Trying to get a mix of both of those is what I’m trying to get some of up there because that’s what (owner Jim Crane) wants.” Analytics built the Astros into a budding dynasty, but it’s worth wondering if Bagwell’s growing influence on Crane might shift the franchise back toward a blended approach. “I talk to Jim a lot and the new assistant GMs and so forth just to give my opinion on some of the things I see and how I see it (from) a player’s perspective and, I guess, a front-office perspective and how that all mixes together,” Bagwell said. “You have to have a mix of both. You can’t just be one way.” Asked whether the Astros had gone “too far one way,” Bagwell replied, “Personally, for me, yes. “There are certain things that go on that the numbers can’t explain,” Bagwell said. “This game is played by humans, man. It’s not played by computers. There’s a lot of things that go on — stuff at home, a lot of things that can happen throughout the year that mean something, and it affects players in certain ways.” It’s clear that since Click’s departure, Bagwell wields far more influence than his current job title of community outreach executive. “I don’t know. I do the same thing,” Bagwell said. “I bother Jim nonstop. I think he’s tired of me. I’m just a voice of how I see baseball and how I see the other things in baseball that aren’t just numbers. Numbers are important — don’t get me wrong. But there are other things that matter.” Bagwell called Abreu “our number one target” and didn’t rule out entering the catching market despite Martín Maldonado’s return.
