They tried hard to win in the beginning. Then I Don’t know wtf happened. Mussina leaving was a problem.
They have some can’t miss guys like gunnar and holliday and Adley. Westburg too. The other hitting prospects haven’t done too much of note. Grayson and Bradish on the shelf hurts the pitching of course Cowser was good last year too
if you consider Gunnar, Adley, westburg, Holliday to be on par with our top hitting prospects, then no. No they haven’t.
The Orioles have a lot of injuries on their pitching staff. It’s not quite fair to say that Elias ignored pitching. Rodriguez Bradish Eflin That was supposed to be their top 3. All are injured. He still should’ve signed probably at least one of crochet and cease but injuries are the bigger issue at this point. Burnes was not going back to Baltimore so I do not blame Elias for losing him to FA. Another issue is that nobody on the team is hitting yet. Adley has been in a slump since last july. Holliday looks to be coming out of his slump now. Gunnar needs to step it up too. Ex astro McDermott, who we traded to them for mancini, looks to be a bit of a bust so far.
Apparently their bullpen is bad and he was 1 of, if not best relief pitcher. Is there a trade to be made with us? Or is pitching too important that Astros shouldn't trade 1 of their relief pitchers?
Astros gotta trade something. They have no position players worth enough to get anything of consequence.
with pirates and orioles somewhat in turmoil, i'd like the astros to go after paul skenes (ala gerrit cole 2.0. i doubt it's possible tho) and some of the orioles front office staff members to bring them back to houston.
Crane has always been the one jonesing for pitching…. Ever since they lucked into JV at the deadline. Crane will pay a premium for starters, relievers and closers. That’s where he splurges. The importance of reliable starting pitching has also increased since 2019 as the “go max effort” philosophy of most teams has simply resulted in developing starters that will eventually get injured after a certain period of time. Which is why you can’t simply take for granted the starters that still are able to pitch every 4th day for years and their arms don’t fall off (ahem Framber).
Paul Skenes has allowed 3 or fewer ER in 9 of his 10 starts, but the Pirates have scored 21 runs and are 3-6
