[Official] Astros Spring Training Thread

Lmao Jose Abreu hit over .300 last spring and Bregman hit .383 before sucking ass for 2 months to start the season.

You having any takeaway from spring training stats is wild.

 

Clearly new to baseball if you put any stock in spring training stats.

 

Yeah, you aren't keeping Cam Smith off the team

 

Really excited to see not just what Smith can do but also Dezenzo.

 

Playing Altuve in the outfield and keeping Cam Smith off the team would be Dusty Baker tier baseball malpractice.

 

so you trying to tell me this teams average hasn’t been going down the past few years

 

Well, the team's batting average has gone up each of the last two seasons (.248 -> .259 -> .262). So, no, it hasn't been going down the last few years.

 

Facts don't agree with his opinion that BA is the primary measure of good offense.

 

They were first in the AL and third in MLB in batting average last year.

 

Altuve struggling and he knows....
https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/3...t-really-happy-with-performance-in-left-field

 

Sure. He’s old. But he’s not going to be Martin Maldonado bad.

 

Agreed. Imagine being in a sales position where one month a year you're asked to work on your pitch and none of the sales you get count.

 

Both are really good young players. If Dezenzo could play some 2B and he was a SS in college this would solve a lot of issues. Altuve will get better, he just needs to slow down and remember to secure the catch 1st when runners are on base. He doesn't have this issue when nobody is on base. He's learning.

 

At this point it’s hard to see Smith or Dezenzo not making the roster, so it’s down to 5 guys competing for 1 position player spot: Singleton, Gamel, Rodgers, Guillorme and a dark horse in Cooper Hummel, who is out of options.

 

Rodgers. They may put cam or dezenzo in AAA for a couple of weeks just so they can have some flexibility.

 

1} he said nothing of the sort
2} average?
3} yes

 

I'm pulling for Rodgers with his lopsided upside.

 

Which one plays RF? Which one plays 2B?

 

Can’t see how Cam doesn’t make the roster. A starter at that. Some people are just built different.