I was specifically talking about a scenario where the team is on a winning streak- just a matter of time before he would cause it to end.
Caratini in instead of Smith is infuriating. It would be defensible if Victor is catching, but not as a DH. Play Smith or send him down !!!! It's baseball manager 101.
And In the past 2 weeks, I have just as many homeruns as Yordan Alvarez. What does how many wins anybody else has have to do with Joe Espada? Sometimes the team may win despite the manager. We should all know that.
I mean- we had the best record in the league by a pretty healthy margin from 5/8 on and we are only a few games back of league lead this year, so that checks out to me...
94-68 what I found which is surprising, but yeah it was last year, and we hit a slump at the playoffs.
I used FanGraphs last Calendar split. The Astros had won more and played as many or fewer games than any AL team over the past year.
Sure, a team can win despite the manager. The Astros can obviously win with Espada over a long stretch despite not having a juggernaut. Espada has basically 4-5 good players and he plays them every day. He's getting great production from the pitching staff. Maybe Espada should try to get Caratini's bat in more. I don't care about juggling guys that aren't good enough trying to find someone that is. For the most part, the Astros aren't a juggernaut and are basically playing like it. I expect the Astros will get a good streak at some point and are probably still the best AL team not in the AL East. Mostly that's because I think the AL is weak AF.
I actually think he should get Caratini's bat in LESS But there is no argument that the other options aren't better. The problem is when Caratini is playing while Dezenzo and/or Smith are on the bench. I'm not thrilled with Altuve playing 2b, but I think with Yordan hurt, both Dezenzo and Smith should play every day. If Espada wants the bench to be Rodgers, Dubon, McCormick, and Salazar so Caratini DHs, I think that's the best possible lineup with these 13 guys.
