Astros 2022 Season General Discussion Thread

2nd MLB player to be born in Honduras.

The first? Gerald Young.

 

Pretty amazing stat. Honduras has one more MLB player than South Africa all time.

 

No idea what this move indicates.

 

None. None idea.

This is from the espn recap of yesterday's game, only thing that seems clear is that Pena and Altuve are somewhere between "fully healthy" and "joint replacement":

SS Jeremy Peña did not play, a day after leaving the second game of a doubleheader at Minnesota with a knee injury. "Hopefully, he'll be available in this series, but I'm not exactly sure when," Baker said. … Altuve was lifted for a defensive replacement in the ninth for precautionary reasons after he slipped on the grass earlier in the game. Baker said he had already planned to give Altuve a day off Saturday.

 

Once everyone is healthy- Dubon should be an excellent Goodrum replacement. He will provide solid depth

 

This can't be a good sign considering Altuve and Pena hurt in consecutive nights.

 

We don’t have an off day until 5.26 IIRC so hopefully this is just an insurance move.

 

I'm hoping it is just deciding that Goodrum likely won't help this year and is solely a move to strengthen bench.

 

Agree. No complaints about strengthening the IF depth and possibly pushing Goodrum out.

 

Sorry I know that is basically impossible to look up with out like being in the industry or on a team and having their resources.

I think I was just pointing out that have such a stretch this early in the season may cause us to overestimate how good the staff will be in Oct/Nov. Basically something most of the posters here already know.

Doesn't take away from their accomplishment. It is has been a ridiculous 2 weeks pitching wise.

 

Dubon had a 3-hit, 3-rbi game on Monday.

 

Not a huge sample size, but Dubon has hit lefties extremely well so far. I wonder if they might start giving him some time over Brantley when we face lefties. He's had some bad BABIP luck in the early going, so he should fit right in.

He can also play CF capably, alongside the infield. Could end up being an absolute steal as a team controlled utility man. Papierski could hang around the league, maybe even hit enough to be a regular, but he's about as low an upside guy as you can trade.

According to Click the Giants wanted Papierski, not the other way around.

 

Meyers almost ready and Dubon....the Death Star is almost complete without exposed thermal exhaust ports.

 

GY was my son's coach last year, pretty cool dude!

 

if ever the mustache game carried so much weight, this would be it

 

In case you guys weren't sure how to pronounce his name.

 

So Niko possibly being DFA?

Another Click signing eh?