Well you can, but that has to be YOUR pitch, right now, his curve is more of a swerve, he needs that Nolan Ryan down break....curve ball. DD
Last time (different leg) it was quite minor and he missed only 3 games. He said last night that this one "feels worse".
I gotta believe this is the worst season for injuries for any team in Houston sports history. It’s incredible that we have any chance at all for the postseason. Making a trade is getting more and more expensive as teams will see us as desperate, which we are.
Yep. He might top out at 93 if the wind is right, but he's more along the line of the lower 90's. I'd like to see him in middle relief for now too. You can't keep him as a starter at this point in the season. Time to try something new.
All the posts of GIVE MCCULLERS MORE TIME! The move that should be done NOW is sending LMJ to HEB and Maven.
Lance is coming back not just from major surgery, but from almost 3 years off. If you expected him to come back and be great right away that’s your fault No doubt he isn’t consistently giving innings, and he was never going to at this point. He can get there though. Espada is the idiot. Lance had another outing where he struggled but we still had a chance. He goes to Gusto but instead of getting multiple innings out of him he goes ONE inning and is removed. Idiotic. Gusto should be there to give length when Lance doesn’t As for Gordon, you are giving him props for pitching “into the 5th” lol. That’s not good bro, if you can’t see that I don’t know what to tell you
I think we should stop the rethreads and give Rhouba, Alexander, Blubaugh, Ulloa a chance to escape the Pacific Coast League.
I would add Jake to that list. Whether or not Jake was going to keep hitting at the level he was we will never know, but that production is a huge part of what helped us win overcome not having Yordan Dana needs to be aggressive trying to get a deal done NOW
Haven’t seen the other moves yet but Jon and Whitcomb are coming up, so you have to believe Paredes is going on the IL
Bring back up Alexander, small sample size but he was solid in his start and the long relief against the Dodgers. He's at least been better than LMJ
I would argue the opposite. The Astros have an army of injured players. If they come back, they are the equivalent of no-cost deadline moves. If they don't, adding a few players at the deadline might help them tread water, but it's unlikely to be enough to help them win a WS. So you're potentially spending a lot of trade capital for not much actual benefit. The starting rotation is full if the SPs come back from injury. Position players are tricky because you don't know who is coming back and when, so it's hard to say what spots to target. I would make maybe minor/cheap moves that would improve a relatively healthy team's chances, but I wouldn't try to repair this team with big expensive moves. It's better to just wait and see how many free players you get back - those are the team's "big moves".
I would agree with this IF Dana knows that those guys are done for the year. But if they think they will be back but it’s gonna be a while, waiting to do anything could be costly. The schedule gets easier after today, but we just lost 5 of 6 to bad teams leading up to the break also, a 3-9 stretch from here to the deadline or something like that would be hard to recover from
