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A relatively young team with individual players trying to make a mark has something to play for and being a spoilers is one of the few motivations...
What exactly is the question? The top seeded wildcard will play the wildcard series at home, the other two on the road. If the Astros are a...
The question here is kinda silly. If people are rooting against the Astros so they’ll fire Baker, then they should reevaluate their relationship...
I'm not really trying to argue about 2 wins vs 5 wins or that Dusty's decisions don't matter in in a playoff race decided by a game. The 2 games...
Let’s say Diaz played the whole season as catcher and got 710 PA (Bregman had played 157 games with 707 PA right now). By your math Diaz would be...
WAR includes defense. You can question how well it captures it, but it does consider it. Even you if you say the 40 games he has DHed don’t...
If you believe WAR 60 games would be just under 2 games difference. Diaz has already played 103 games, so he could not have played 60 more though....
Most formulas use 10 runs to a win. So 1.1 runs in ERA is 178 runs over a 162 game season and worth about ~18 wins. Maldy is currently at 0 bWAR....
Dusty used up the small margin for error with his bad decisions. I have no problem for people saying he should be fired for it. He didn’t cause...
My point was a more than 1 run difference in ERA difference over the entire season is worth way more games than the difference between Diaz and...
Argue to fire Dusty, complain about his lineups, whatever. If you want to say a few games are the difference and Dusty’s decision cost a few...
Yeah Yuli was bad last year and there was a reason they didn’t resign him. More that in baseball 1 bad player isn’t the difference. Mike Trout...
I don’t know if using Yuli is making your point. The 2022 Astros won 106 games with Yuli as the everyday first baseman. They then went 11-2 to win...
The winking smiley was to indicate it was a joke.
You’re just saying that since the Central sucks and the Astros would be 2.5 games in front of the Twins ;)
I'd say the biggest difference is the Astros have gone from one of the best teams with RISP (hitting .281) before Sept 11, to one of the worst (20...
Only 1 team wins it all each year. Even in a dominant year, a team maybe has a 20% to chance to win it all once they make the post-season. Once...
Not yet. Making the post-season is still completely in the Astros control. One scenario they have to win 4 of the remaining 6 games, the other 5....
Peak Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth who put up the best offensive WAR seasons in history were worth about .019 WAR per at a bat. 1 pinch hitting...
You may believe it cost the Astros 6 games, but that is not what the stats say. Diaz has been worth 3.3 (BR) or 2.0 (FG) WAR in 99 games ....
