The organization, the city, the fans, they will all thank me on how I handled him. What a ****ing turd
Are you trying to argue my point? Or prove it? He has started 17 of 53 games at C since July 1. Playing Catcher, where he UNDOUBTEDLY has his best numbers, in a time of the season where we are in a knock down drag out three way fight for the division lead he has started 17 games. While the literal worst hitting catcher that can’t catch anyone stealing or even frame pitches has started the other 36. Diaz has started almost 33%.. Are you arguing that I should be satisfied with that? Well I’m not.
Buck gets in moods where he just wants to argue, don't take it personal On Diaz, seems he just hits better when playing in the game, whether it's at C or 1B. Limited sample size obviously, but his OPS playing 1B is over 1.200 Now obviously that takes Abreu bat out of the lineup and leaves Maldy in, and as bad as that sounds Abreu's 690 OPS post all star break is only about 50 points better than Maldy's....but without a doubt we are better off with Abreu at 1B and Diaz at catcher because Abreu at least has the ability to get going and produce, Maldy only has the ability to whine like a bittch when Diaz plays or when he is asked about Diaz, his teammate
Abreu's post ASB numbers are dragged down by trying to play hurt. The injection seemed to work and his bat looked the best it has all season long in the Boston series. I wouldn't say he's about to go on a tear and be MVP Abreu or anything, but a 120 OPS+ in September seems imminently reasonable. He should be hitting 8th and doing that, which would be absolutely absurd. Altuve/Bregman/Yordan/Tucker/Chas/Diaz/Brantley/Abreu/Pena is pretty much unfair. It's a cheat code if Abreu is a 120 OPS + guy going forward like I think he likely is.
Almost everybody has looked great, lately. Over the last 7 days, we got 9 players with a .880+ OPS. https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/stats/_/name/hou/split/61/table/batting/sort/OPS/dir/desc
I thought having Urquidy back and trading for Verlander would allow some skips in the rotation for everyone, but it seems like that hasn't been the case unfortunately.
So we are judging GM's now based on less than half a season? Especially when they are coming onto a team where they may have less power to make decisions than the some of the other FO and possibly the manager based on the rumors as to why Click was let go?
A neutered GM approach won’t work… in any sport. Click was forced upon Crane as well so I wasn’t surprised there were a lot of conflicts, regardless of the manager. Brown is the guy Crane hired to do the entire job with full trust. If Brown isn’t capable of managing this team’s roster construction and having dialogue with the manager on what needs to be done, that situation won’t work out long term.
Is it? There’s already doubt who’s in charge. This is his first GM job anywhere. If he was a GM before, we could go by how things evolved at those stops. At the very least, he’s not quite ready for the job and is going to need more experience to grow into it… and that’s somewhat dissapointing given that they’re win-now for at least the next 2 years after this.
