It's worth noting that Dezenzo suffered a capsule sprain in his hand and has been out months. JP France has a capsule "tear" in his shoulder and missed more than a year.
Yea i'm not worried about Abreu in the 9th I don't have playoff confidence in Souza or the others though BUT If Arrighetti can work himself into being the 3rd playoff starter You can easily get 3 relief innings out of Javier in a game, hopefully same with Garcia. Those two following 5 innings of a starter can get you to Abreu You can work it in the playoffs and win series I'm way more worried about getting to the playoffs
We don't get anywhere close to winning our second title without Framber 7 shutout innings in the LCS Then two games of 6+ giving up 1 run in each Year before that (21) he threw 8 innings with 1 run against Boston to help us get to the Series in the 20 LCS we lost to Tampa he threw two great games too The last two years haven't been good, i'll give you that But dude has given us some GREAT playoff performances, and like I said, without playoff Framber, we have 1 Championship not 2
We have seen Tucker on the struggle bus before and it’s not pretty. Yet some folks around here think we didn’t get enough in the Tucker trade.
Well, to be fair, 2 of the players we got are out for the season and the other one is hitting somewhere around .140 over the last 5 or 6 weeks.
injuries are part of the game. Seems to me, if we’re gonna be fair about it, the operative question is whether the deal we received was a good deal at the time the trade was made. And it sure was. We had one dude running around here with his ass on fire when Tucker got off to a hot start, and declared that Dana Brown screwed the pooch. Of course, such declaration was made in pure hindsight, in light of Tucker’s hot start. And it was made with no evidence that the alternative universe trade that the dude advocated was even a remote possibility.
I think it was a good deal. Cam has the tools. Paredes can rake. I liked what I saw from Wesneski but who knows with him.
I think there is a good chance that between right now and the end of 2029, Cam has been a better player than Tucker
Espada is a ****ing moron. He alienated Hader and Pressly last year by mismanaging them early and it was to the point agents were involved… he also not only had him out there for nearly 40 pitches, he gave him one day off and then had him warming up in the pen and was bringing him out again before the Astros scored again. He should not have any say in pitching changes.
Man, it's getting hard to watch this team. We've only won 13 of our last 31 games. Injuries are killing us slowly.
I'm not saying it was any single game. Espada has a philosophy that adds wear and tear and increases the likelihood of the leverage guys getting hurt. Every outing is a crap shoot. Multiple innings, high pitch counts, high stress pitches all increase the risk. Espada treats 4 run games like save situations pitching Hader and Abreu instead of Sousa and Okert. He pitches them 2 innings. He has them warm up in blowouts. Espada injured Hader
2026 staff In: Miller / Murphy / Strom ... DR. RED MF DUKE ... banana pudding (potassium, yall), pedialyte / electrolytes ... Jenloy Out: Espada / Cintron / Pissoncheeksyeah / trainers / conditioners / weight-training & conditioning programming / the proven-winning-less side of evil of Memorial Houston and-or Houston Methodist medical team(s)
say bro... I just FTFY... thats the bottom line. I've NEVER been a fan of bringing in JoshFckngHader in close (semi-close) games just so he can get his "appearances" in... matter of fact, he should be used as a LAST RESORT to shut the game down, not be a RISKY-MOVE in the 9th when there's a 1-2-or-3 run lead NOR should he pitch whenever we are BEHIND by a run or 2. Its asinine line of thinking. edit: fcukinghell did I just HaikuTF outta that quote-post? 9-9-4-14-3
