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The Astros would be be leading the division if they simply deployed replacement level players over Maldy and Abreu this season. Impressive amount...
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Those Dusty quotes about not wanting to experiment at 1B are something else.
The way I see it, they are pretty similar quality hitters and defenders although they get their value in different ways. On defense, as you note,...
Yainer Diaz is a better catcher than Adley Rutschman. Change my mind!
I can’t imagine why they just don’t platoon Abreu and Singleton. Even if Singleton is not the answer, maybe you could squeeze out a little more...
Midwits. The lot of 'em.
He should have locked his replies that time.
Gordon starting tonight in El Paso. Not an easy first outing. Gordon's statcast data from the WBC was not very impressive, so it will be...
Pretty big difference between hiring people to do something, and doing it yourself. I would have thought this past off-season would have made that...
I don’t think the issue with Montero was the money, it was the fact that he had one good season prior to receiving that contract. That’s a lot of...
So is Crane embarrassed at all about the results of his time LARPing as GM this off season?
I think he wants to win, but it may be the case that cultivating personal friendships with legends of the game like Dusty, Bagwell, and Reggie are...
I just wonder how bad Maldy would be if he wasn't so gifted at working with the pitchers and put in so much effort. Would he yield a full extra...
I have a sick feeling in my stomach that the Astros are going to fall a couple of games short of winning the division, a deficit that likely could...
I'm very impressed by his ISO this season in Corpus and went back to see how many other hitters have been able to maintain that great of an ISO...
Meyers is on a 4 WAR full season (600 PA) pace while holding a 99 wRC+. Are 4 WAR guys considered bench players these days?
Gordon to Sugar Land.
Note that the xwOBA he's referencing here is adjusted by spray angle so it's a much better barometer of whether a given hit/out was lucky/unlucky...
