I'm not screaming at anything. If Dusty had put his foot down on Diaz catching 60% of the games, I believe they would be 4-5 games ahead in the division. The numbers which sometimes lie say this and so does the eye test. Bottom line is Dusty is a stubborn old man that's been a detriment to his team this year by trying to placate pitchers. I mean Javier and Framber have ERA's over 5 since the all star break. Tell me how much has Maldy's veteran presence helped them? Would they have any ERA over 6 if Maldy wasn't catching them. LMAO, who's running the team?
I'm not screaming at anything. If Dusty had put his foot down on Diaz catching 60% of the games, I believe they would be 4-5 games ahead in the division. The numbers which sometimes lie say this and so does the eye test. Bottom line is Dusty is a stubborn old man that's been a detriment to his team this year by trying to placate pitchers. I mean Javier and Framber have ERA's over 5 since the all star break. Tell me how much has Maldy's veteran presence helped them? Would they have any ERA over 6 if Maldy wasn't catching them. LMAO, who's running the team?
He has a mutual option for next year with a 4 million dollar buyout. If a team claimed him they would owe him basically 5.5 million dollars. So with a month left you want to pay Clevinger almost a million bucks a start?
Because Yankees. He's also owed $4M extra for next season when he declines his mutual option. He also has bad reputation in general.
How did he overplay his hand? It's a marathon, not a sprint. The Astros, despite tons of injuries and never playing their best lineups, are tied for the division lead and have all their players fresh. The Rangers have been sprinting all season and you're seeing the effects of it now as they collapse in the dog days of August. The Mariners remain to be seen, but they have been on a crazy sprint this past month - we'll see if it peters out. The Astros are in great shape, both for the September run and being ready for a postseason push. People here spent all season praising the genius of Bruce Bochy and how he knows how to play the right lineups and push his team. How is that going right now? Why people continually look short-term in a long-term sport and with a team that proven itself to know how to navigate a 180 game type season for the past 6 years is beyond me, but it's like people can't ever see beyond tomorrow or remember anything beyond yesterday.
Astros also got unexpected help from a rookie starter who was a legit ROY candidate until Dusty allowed him to serve 10 runs in 3 innings last Thursday. The Javier situation is a result of poor management and poor planning. He threw too any innings between his long season last year and the WBC entering this season. It was obvious 2 months ago he needed intervention with load management. Nothing has been done and the team has wasted time before they've attempted a remedy. It's also easy to conclude that Dusty's lackadaisical lineups have led to closer games which brings more high leverage innings. The same relievers were used and abused. Some times those relievers have been used in 5-run games.
Chapman pitched more for the Reds than he did the Yankees, he shot up his garage ceiling and said he'd shoot his woman...then pitched for another team...beat some women here and there...and he's pitching for the Rangers now...? Literally NOBODY will touch Osuna. That should say something about what he did, I'd think. I was wrong when I kinda defended him a few years ago, now that more things have come to light, yep, I was wrong. Both of them can go to hell and should be out of the league.
Chapman gets a pass because he's on the Yankees. Cant say anything when he gets traded to Cubs/Rangers/Signed by K.C. because he was a Yankee and that's got favored nation status with the commish/media. Meanwhile Osuna did the same thing but he played with a team from another country and was traded to the Stros where the media hated Luhnow. Shockingly double standards abound.
If the Astros win the division the then all's fine. If they dont he rested the starters too much and it cost them. Gave us something to batch about either way..
Boy oh boy to be a fly on the wall, when Dusty gave JP his pre-game pep talk ... "JP, I need you go out there and get completely hammered for the team." If only Dusty had ask JP to only get semi-hammered ...
