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Javier is serving up meatballs today regardless of who is catching. Yadi Molina or Johnny Bench wouldn’t be successful behind the plate.
And pitcher injuries are up in general. But the Astros have been at the forefront of the movement for years. So it's not surprising that they've...
When your entire pitching philosophy is emphasizing spin rate and torquing that number up and then you suffer a high injury rate among your...
Burrows isn’t zero value, he’s at a staggering -1.2 WAR so far this season. The guys he was traded for have had greater value to the 2026 Astros...
How would they go about buying one year of free agency for those guys? It makes sense for someone coming off a down year but I can't imagine a...
Here's the WAR stat for every closers in the HoF (not counting Eckersley, who earned by far most of his WAR value as a starter): Rivera 56.3...
Bagwell made a total of four All Star games. Surely we aren’t using that as a meaningful number to determine HoF? I think Hader’s K rate is...
Nah. He's 32. He's under 240 career saves and the standard for modern closers is Wagner's 422. I'm not sure he's ever been the best closer in...
Can only carry so many defense only outfielders. Jake era ends like the Chas era, with a whimper.
I keep hearing "he's just got to change his launch angle" where the term JUST is really doing a disservice to the difficulty of the transition....
Blanco for whatever reason has this hope level still among fans that have soured on Javier and LMJ. But Blanco is turning 33 in a couple...
Moniak can't hit lefties to save his life, and his OPS is 300+ points better at home than the road. Taking him out of Coors is going to make him...
When the best you can show in return for any of those guys was Singleton (bust), Santana (traded away with Hader for CarGo and the rat Fiers), and...
Weird as it is to say, I still think Imai can turn it around. I've seen him be very good. I've seen him be awful. But his high points and his...
Even if we had Hunsicker still as GM, he may have realized value for the trades. Pupura didn't get any. It's why I think it's so important we...
Would have been a bold move to go full rebuild in 06 when they made the World Series in 05… We did end up trading stars like Oswalt, Berkman,...
Eight batters and no 3B. Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works.
I feel like we keep bringing up the same prospect up through the minors - K rate through the roof - and then are shocked when they don't produce....
The problem is there are only 5 hitters on this team and when you sit two of them, your lineup is trash. If this was the old days when we had 8...
You're right that they need the fast guys to run more. But honestly they have few opportunities with how rarely they get on base. Matthews has a...
