I think there's a time when saying "don't worry" would have been valid....like in the first month of the season.....but yeah, the time to panic for the Astros should have been a LONG time ago. Their complacency along with Dusty Baker's incompetence is why I've gone back to "don't worry"....only not because I think things are going to be fine this season. I think this season is a wash. Anything they manage to do is a bonus. I'm already looking forward to next season when they have some of their starting pitchers back and Maldonado and Baker have been sent to the glue factory.
No one does this, Dusty thinks he's special because the league awarded him his only WS ring after failing miserably his whole career. Its not that complicated, play your best players every night and when you see your pitcher struggling you replace him with a different one. You don't rest players just because your fat ass feels like it. Dusty does the opposite of what a manager is actually suppose to do, after so many pitcher injuries and some of our starters regression this was going to happen and Dusty is doing everything in his power to magnify the issues The Astros have right now...
It’s pointless even talking about this team anymore. Dusty doesn’t care about winning. When we have added a SP or two and a competent manager things will get interesting again. He “rested” yordan today. Day before an off day. That, along with how we have played the last 10 days, says it all.
Bregman has the 4th most PAs, Tucker, 29th. Pena 53rd, Abreu 80th. Among healthy position players that Dusty treats as starters, he rests them slightly less than the average team. The way he's treated Chas, Diaz, and Meyers is different than most managers, but it has very little to do with rest.
Hawaiian shirt is very fitting for Toothpick. The strike call that got the bench coach kicked out should of been Toothpick. If he cared, he would of defended the bench coach who was barking at the ump instead it looked like Dusty was on mute, or inactive against the ump. Toothpick didn't want to get fined because it hurts his pocket.
You gotta read between the lines though, he's not really "resting" Yordan, the reality is that he's not very good at filling out a lineup. He wants Maldy back at catcher and he can't justify sitting DIaz but doesn't want him at first so his .600 OPS first baseman Abreu can play, so he needs to be DH. He wants his .600 OPS hitter Meyers in center, because that's the other hill he wants to die on despite getting bullied into playing Chaz, so there's just no spot for Yordan. It's Dusty logic, you HAVE to keep those 3 600 OPS guys in the lineup, so your only choice is to bench your .987 OPS DH/RF, bench your .859 OPS OF, or bench your .861 OPS rookie catcher. This time he chose to bench the .987 OF/DH. Dusty pushing certain garbage players will ALWAYS be more important to him than the best interest of the team.
