[Official] Orioles @ Astros

You don't even need to rest Yordan...

 

Meyers can kick rocks, hopefully we can trade him for some prospects

 

Hey y'all, this is no time for urgency. We will thank Dusty later for keeping our players fresh.

 

28 starts with Meyers in CF/Chas in LF (14-14 record). Though the vast majority is with Maldy (8-13 record)*. Only 5 times with the big boys, Pena, Diaz at C, Chas, and Meyers (5-0).

*Yordan in LF is the only LF to have a winning record with Maldy as catcher. Though, this is probably due to Julks having a 0.484 OPS at DH according to the Dusty supporters.

 

Shhh... Dusty is a saint and more successful than any others Astros manager in history.

 

For the rest of the season these players should play every game:
Altuve, Bregman, Pena, McC, Tucker, Alvarez, and Diaz. Not even any question about it.

Two spots remain. Brantley should be one and if he can't go then Dubon.

Abreu should play as well (but bat in the bottom 3rd). On the one day Maldy has to play Diaz goes to first.

It is so frigging simple yet our manager still can't understand the basics of a lineup.

God I HATE him!

 

Pedestrian lineup today. Just another casual Wednesday mid-day game right?

 

Can't have your DH play a day game after a night game. Although the 37 year old catcher did it repeatedly early in the season...

 

Alverez already took the 9th inning off last night when he looked at 3 strikes.

 

This lineup also gives me no hope that Dana Brown is going to work out as a GM. Not impressed with him so far. Didn't like his draft, wasn't thrilled with the trade deadline (but not thrilled with anyone's really), don't understand the pitching call ups lately (Kuhnel and especially Sousa are useless). Never stood up to Dusty. Not liking it so far.

 

Just as I feared, this is coming down to the Seattle series.

This team just feels uninterested in winning.

If they had just won:
1 of 3 vs Seattle
1 of 3 vs Yankees
2 of 3 vs A's
2 of 3 vs Royals

Then:
Astros 88-64
Rangers 83-68
Mariners 82-69

4 1/2 game lead and Magic number of 6 with 10 games left.

But instead Seattle is in control of the division due to the tiebreaker.

Mariners magic number: 11 w/ 11 to play.
Astros magic number: 11 w/ 10 to play.

 

It doesn’t matter what we do with the lineup of our pitching sucks as bad as it has.

 

Wait until they go to Arizona and play that lineup of rabbits. They’ll steal at least 10 bases in that series.

 

It's like he's trolling everyone.
Y'all want Diaz? Well here you go but you can't have Yordan.

 

This team is 7-10 this month despite averaging 6.1 runs per game and scoring 7+ runs in 8 of them.

They have lost 2 games in the past 4 days when scoring 7+ runs.

Pitching is the issue not hitting or scoring runs.

 

The defense has also been an issue... we lead the league in unearned runs... and extra outs mean more worn out arms and higher pitch counts.

 

10 games left and lost control of division to Seattle.

All hands on deck if you actually care about winning the division.

Off day tomorrow and another one 6 games later.

Dusty has no sense of urgency

 

It's not like Yordan has been in a funk either. He had one bad game, big whoop!