2024 Season Astros General Discussion Thread

9 games out of first. At this point do we just shoot for the wild card?

So depressing.

 

Yeah I had no idea until 10 minutes ago that Luis Contreras and Nick Hernandez were in the org.

 

At this point, you win as many ****ing games as you can. If they finish the first half 10 games under, try to be 20 games over for the second 81.

Can't control what other teams do (till you play them h-2-h). They can't just relase/trade everybody and rebuild with some of their long-term commitments. Get Garcia and LMJ back and eased in (when next year was always going to be the true "back healthy/no restrictions" year).

Based on a lot of that, they can decide whether or not to trade Tucker/Framber this off-season or go for one more loaded chance in 2025 (certainly feasible with some minor changes and better luck with health).

But they have the ability to play better/more consistent baseball throughout. The starting pitching has been really good for the last month+. The lineup has been a mixed bag but hopefully with less dead weight, gets more consistent as well. Same with the bullpen that is HEAVILY invested right now.

 

While its true the gap is less (6.5 games), we are chasing 7 teams. IMO, a wild card birth is even less likely than a division title.

 

Yep. Magic number of losses left before the all star break for me is down to 8 or 9

 

How many until the trade deadline?

 

Maybe 12? But I think they’ll make the decision of whether to sell or not by the all star break.

 

Let me know when they tell you

 

Trade deadline doesn't even matter if the organization is as dysfunctional as the rumors suggest.

 

We will get to see for ourselves how dysfunctional they are as will be evidenced by what they accomplish in the coming weeks.
If they think letting Abreu go was all they needed to do, then they are delusional as well as dysfunctional.

 

Both have looked better than I expected at times this year neither has done it consistently.

 

Considering how many wild cards have steamrolled the top seeds in recent years... I'll take it.

 

Divisions? Wild Cards? Playoffs? If this team wants any part of those, they’re going to have to go streaking….

 

Hope its not out of necessity (meaning JV injury or a setback to one of the guys coming back).

While he looks very promising... young pitchers are going to be inconsistent regardless, till they're not. Hopefully Hunter Brown is at the point where he's over whatever was afflicting him since his debut, but it took almost a full 2 seasons (or 40 or so starts) to get to this stage.

 

Exactly.

 

This is why they dont need to be sellers. Those guys and if Loperfido plays like he has so far, there's no reason not to be buyers. I really want one more solid J.D. Martinez type bat and a high leverage reliever.

 

Sad to see