Even if one of them really gets it going in ST, won't matter much if they can't sustain it when real baseball starts.
Today's a split-squad day. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's the lineup for today's split squad home game <a href="https://twitter.com/OsceolaStadium">@OsceolaStadium</a> at 12:05 CT <a href="https://t.co/fXgS9kVy6p">pic.twitter.com/fXgS9kVy6p</a></p>— Houston Astros (@astros) <a href="https://twitter.com/astros/status/706532912221593600">March 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
http://houston.astros.mlb.com/schedule/promotions.jsp?c_id=hou The promotional calendar is out! A lot of them look amazing.
Looks like he did just fine... people tend to forget how sharp Feldman was prior to his injury. He pitched better than Fiers/McHugh and was on par with McCullers/Keuchel over his final 8+ starts. He most definitely provides more value as an every 5th day starter, if he's healthy... than he does as a potential long-relief guy.
White, Singleton and Duffy homered today, and Reed 2 singles and hitting .333 so far this Spring. Interesting battle.
People that forgot about Feldman's last 8 starts remember that McHugh and Fiers were better prior to those starts over a much more representative size. Feldman needs to beat out Fister for 5th spot.
Second homer by Duffy against the wind. He has 3 homers already, trying to lock the 25th spot. Reed just hit a double, 3 hits today, wow
White with game tying bomb. Teoscar Hernandez with the go ahead shot. Duffy with two more! And Gustave strikes out the side in the 9th for the save.
The point was, he was pitching well. His stuff largely based on location/movement, so if he's healthy, has a good chance to get back to that level.
Singleton has had one good game (today), and three no-shows. BA .200, BB none, 40% SO rate. In other words, so far, he has been this spring what he has been for his ML career up to this point. Inconsistent. Admittedly, its VERY early and I am not insinuating he is already done. But he needs to do a lot more, and more importantly, more consistently for Jon to be seen as in the battle, much less winning it. As for the other 1B contenders, I agree the battle is on.
How should Hinch slot 4-7 in the lineup w/ Gomez, Rasmus, Gattis/Tucker and whoever wins the job at 1B?
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