Harold Reynolds and crew just made fun of it on MLB Network. When you have a guy that isn't hitting, isn't walking, can't play defense, & doesn't really hustle, it makes for a bad player. He has been horrible this season. Just keep expecting Berkman/Lee/Pence to play better. Feliz has never been great, but he is over 100 OPS points below his career/previous season average.
Manzella trying to prove that he's a better slugger than Adam Everett! He's not. But he did go yard before Carlos Lee.
With that HR, now only 1 player in baseball has as many or more HRs than the Houston Astros. Coming into today, it was 5 players.
I am actually a Lee fan for what he gives you, I knew his downfalls from the beginning so not complaining now, but if this is the end of Lee as a productive hitter then as soon as his trade clause is up I'd move him for mid level prospects and pay the majority of his salary. There is no use for him here,on a crappy team, when his skills have diminished so much. I will say that I expect him to improve and rather soon but if he doesn't I wouldn't want him in an Astro uniform next season.
I fully expect Lee to get out of this funk and have said as much all season. I'd still try to move him given the state of the team.
Matsui with more girly contact. I appreciate a good contact hitter but you need to be able to hit the ball out of the infield for crying out loud.
Yea, I'm well aware of that, unfortunately. I'm also aware of his "don't get too fat" clause. Somebody send him a bunch of coupons to Whataburger or something.
Maybe they can start thanking him for his services by putting a box of Krispy Kremes in his locker every morning.
I know everyone is on Caballo but Puma isn't doing much better and I know he is coming off an injury, attendance counts, but he has started out 9 for 45 with an OPS of just over .700.
I hate Lee. Exercise your damn trade clause and get out of Houston, lol. We might get decent draft picks for you.
Sure from crappy to less crappy...thrilled By the way OBP is .308 before tonight, that was his strength IMO.
Coming off of arthro on his knee and a recent groin injury that he's still dealing with, he still has the second highest OPS on the team. That speaks more to the rest of the team considering how much below his normal standards this is for Berkman but he's nowhere nearly as unproductive as Lee. Berkman's OPS is probably somewhere around .715 after getting a hit tonight while Lee's .495 has gone down even more. Lee has played every game, too, so Berkman's sample size of only 13 games is much less reliable. They'll both improve in time.
You said that Berkman wasn't doing much better than Lee. That was the point I was disputing. I wasn't comparing Berkman to Berkman. No matter how you twist it, Berkman is doing MUCH, MUCH better than Lee. That's all I'm saying.
What's the story with this Cash kid? It appears to indeed be a conspiracy with Towles to the minors and Quintero as our only other catcher up aside from Cash.
