Every runner on 1B should bluff a break to 2B (unless they're actually running) just to **** with him. Fun Fact: runners are 91 for 98 on stolen bases vs Framber in his career eta: got some speed in the lineup today, Pena/Altuve/Smith/Meyers/Matthews should run every chance they get It'd also help keep out of the inevitable GIDP
This smells like L anyway and against Framber so have no problem with Yordan sitting. If I remember correctly Yordan was better after sitting the 1st game this season.
Stros have chance for 2 more wins !! A split isn't bad either. ___ IF the Astros EVER reach + differential, it's not happening until mid-August. Five hundred and a suck AL is the basic and valid distraction from the Mt Everest climb to respectability.
Considering no Yordan, LHP, and road game..... good enough lineup. Espada is absurd with Meyers not-9th, but he's not 8th at least. We need Matthews to do something, and maybe Diaz has a slight advantage seeing Framber so much. Teng has 5 days rest. He hasn't has a good start with 4 days, and he could probably use 6 or 7 his final start before ASB.
He could use a day off and it’s better to give it to him today than tomorrow with Hunter pitching. Matthews and Meyers have a better chance against a lefty anyway.
Tom Glavine or Andy Pettitte he is not. eta MOAR fun facts: Pettitte picked off 98 runners in his career. Framber has picked off 5
More sense for less offense (no Yordan) tomorrow, if assuming pitching will allow less -- but no major concern. Astros definitely need to have baserunning top of mind today. Avoid the DP. Score from 2nd.
That's some Dusty Espada thinking right there If he needs a day off fine, but the last time Jake was even an MLB average hitter vs LHP was 2024. .434 OPS vs them this year, .682 last year Jake and Brice OPS vs LHP added together is barely more than Yordan's lol
