This roster just needs health. Coaches smoaches. Healthy Yordan healthy Paredes healthy Altuve and a full year of healthy Correa and this offense will be really really good even if they don’t get bounce backs from Diaz and Walker and improvement from Smith, which is all probable. The Astros had horrible horrible outcomes with player health. Whether bad luck or shitty job by their medical staff or both, that’s the reason Houston didn’t make the playoffs.
Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% for new blood in the hitting department. But you ain't gonna do **** if half you guys are hurt.
Agree to disagree. We don't have star studded lineup to just run out there even healthy. We don't have a rotation to count only few runs will be needed to win. I don't understand the attitude "nothing to see here". We should be going for any edge team and individual player wise possible. I can't understand why it seems ok that the whole org is dumbfounded after losses what opposing pitching was serving that day. Some crap about agressiveness being/not being spot on can't be main thing talked after games. It feels we are stuck either in era of having overpowering team or era of not having any smart plan/aproach or both. We need good hitting coaches but also the leadership to "enforce" it. When you have Correa making excuses after million terrible team AB's it tells a lot. Hope they still stumble into playoffs even if not making changes Im dreaming of. Would it be end of the world to shake things up and demand something more of players? Not what worked b4 or what might stumble us into post season.....maybe what could make them best they can be and try to install the culture of players being any cog needed to win. Feels like we have quite many players being "Im like this take it or leave it" and only 1 future HOF who has earned it and even him is mismanaged by usage.
Wha ****ing wha? This is a bunch of jibberish. They haven't even hired the new round of coaches. What exactly do you want?
I guess my response here is this: name me a hitting coach, at any point in MLB history, that has shown to consistently elevate hitters to perform above their projections. It’s not a thing. Coaches have not been seen to make a difference, consistently.
Rudy Jaramillo was one of the best ever…. And the list of future HOFers that attribute his expertise/training/coaching to is longer than my…. Well, it’s long. Once a hitting coach’s philosophy (whatever it may be) becomes a team approach… the league will adjust. But once they do that, that opens all sorts of opportunities for the hitters to consolidate those tendencies, with the simulators they have that will replicate the exact pitches, and there is opportunity there.
Rudy Jaramillo was one of the best (he's 75ish years old now) ...and retired when he was fired for the 3rd time 15 or so years ago
