@AdamSpolane: Dusty Baker on Luis Garcia: "He's missing and then when he throws a strike it's over the heart of the plate, and then his pitch count gets high. He's certainly much better than this, so hopefully he'll be better his next start." Luis Garcia: "I felt way better today than the last outing, and I think I will (build) on that my next outing." Garcia said his mechanics from his new delivery are not an issue
Absolutely - I think the stats so far are irrelevant in the big picture. But if we're looking at why the team is not doing so well so far, they are giving up more runs than last year while also scoring more. So it's hard to say the offense has been the culprit. That doesn't mean it won't be down the line - but so far, they've been fine offensively.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's because they are playing like ass in all phases of the game, at various times.
Hard to just compare offensive numbers this year to last, offense is up all over baseball I do believe we will be just fine though
Yes they will. Just wait til they go to ATL and TB. This could get ugly...in a hurry. It's all good. They won the WS last year.
No need to call them rangerettes. Rangers is an insulting enough name by itself seeing as they named their baseball team after an organization that enforced white supremacy by murdering Natives and Mexicans.
I swear, if the Astros could have just added Garcia and/or Arozarena... they are always a menace when they play our squad.
Except the Astros have played for and won championships at the highest level of their sport 5 times since the last time the Cowboys have.
Astros are going to be one of the best teams by end of the year. With Framber, javier, brown, Urquidy, McCullers, Garcia, Whitley on the team…. 4 of those 7 will have a solid year, even if three of them suck. who knows, Whitley might be dealing at the end of the year as a member of Astros starting 5.
Forrest Whitley has looked sharp through two appearances. Has he turned the corner and again showing his #1 ceiling? -- @knechtwithme18 I've never not seen Whitley, the Astros' No. 20 prospect, look terrific on the mound in person, starting with the 2015 Under Armour All-America Game at Wrigley Field. I saw him dominate multiple times in the AFL in 2018 and 2019, when the right-hander led the league in strikeouts each year. I ran into him on the back fields in West Palm Beach, Fla., a couple of weeks ago and saw him run his fastball up to 98 mph and his cutter up to 92 in two scoreless innings. I thought he'd establish himself in the Astros rotation in 2018 -- and five years later, he still hasn't made his big league debut. Repeated injuries didn't help, nor did control and command woes, and he posted a 7.09 ERA in Triple-A last year after returning from Tommy John surgery. So far this season, he has allowed one run in two Triple-A starts, giving up two hits and three walks while fanning 11. To answer your question, I'll sign off on "turned the corner" but stop short of "again showing his No. 1 starter ceiling." With the caveat that we're dealing with an extremely small sample size, Whitley is showing more life on his four-seam fastball and is missing more bats with what can be a nasty changeup, so far in 2023. Oddly, he has gotten just one swing and miss on 32 slider/cutters and none on 25 two-seamers.
I really really don’t like this analogy. Aside from the obvious…we’ve won things in this century. The Astros are absolutely not the cowboys.
