I would think the mindset needed to go out and close out a save would require not having the additional added pressure of "If I screw up this one chance, will I lose this chance." For a young player, that additional pressure could easily cause issues. Just a thought.
That is an interesting way of looking at it, but I hope that is not the mentality that they have. In all likelihood, if someone outside of Veras blows a save (Wright, Ambriz, Cisnero), I think they would return to the 'pen but still have an opportunity to close out games. If we were in pennant chases and needed each win, I would agree because the penalty of losing a game is a lot higher, but this is a perfect situation to see who floats to the top in a pressure situation. As a relief pitcher, I hope they don't have the "blow this one chance" mindset because that would be a horrid thing for any pitcher to have.
By the numbers, a guy with a 5.25 ERA asked to pitch 1 inning is going to give up a run almost 60% of the time. Enough said.
Huh? Someone say something to me? <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>New <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Astros">#Astros</a> theme song, "Cry Me A River": <a href="http://t.co/gluyOYbP5E" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksSPZTZES0">youtube.com/watch?v=DksSPZ…</a></p>— Crawfish Boxes (@CrawfishBoxes) <a href="https://twitter.com/CrawfishBoxes/status/330866925376786432">May 5, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Great game tonight, men. When the game is decided 5 minutes after the first pitch, you know you're putting out a quality product on the field.
His point wasn't that the wheels were stolen and the Astros have failed the fans. It is that this team was never intended to do anything, and the car is still in the shop on lifts while we are testing various wheels to see what fits.
A team scoring in EVERY inning has only happened 13 times in the history of the MLB. Rather Houston stay off that list as the losing team.
According to http://research.sabr.org/journals/scoring-every-inning, the odds of a team scoring ever inning is one out of every 225,917 games based on the formula they have. That would be once every 92 years on the odds alone... wow. That one inning saved us from adding on to a possibly historically dismal year. To be clear, I still watch and pull for them... but it's like going into a test for a class you didn't study: I don't expect things to go well, but I enjoy the occasional victory.
Welp..... with this loss, the Marlins (9-22) have moved ahead of the Astros (8-23) for 29th in the overall standings.
It's somewhat comical. I have read so many "pro-tank" vs "no tank" GARM threads, but we all know how the season is going to go here. It is still the right approach, but come summer, it just hurts a little bit more. Nonetheless, I support my Astros, and I hope that the struggle leads to a decent draft class and years to come of quality, home grown baseball.
It would be nice if while we're getting 1st picks in the draft that atleast one of them be a can't miss prospect, but I guess we're not the lucky.
The biggest problem this team has is a lack of pitching. It seems as though the Astros have given up a silly number of runs this year.
