Astros 2022 Season General Discussion Thread

This this this. With teh way the Astros are pitching there is no reason to think they aren't a true talent 100 win team. The offense hasn't been efficient and I would call it an underperform or a bit of a disappointment. How much of that is guys like Dubon getting too much time? I don't know. How much of it is guys like Yuli and Pena and other non elite hitters hitting at the 2 hole? I don't know. How much of it is guys not getting optimized like Chas not being an auto start against LHP? I don't know. We are tied for 8th/9th in runs scored and we are 6th in OPS so we've been a bit inefficient in getting runs home. Probably random noise. For much of the season we were hovering around 12-14th in runs scored when I was looking earlier, so that has obviously improved from earlier.

 

LOL.

You think this team is underperforming?

Because you had this team in the 97-102 range?

After losing CC?

With the uncertainty of McCullers?

Not knowing how JV was going to bounce back?

 

Underperformed? Even though they will most likely exceed your expectations? Even though they replaced an all star SS with a rookie? Even though they lost Brantley for 60% of the season?

 

Pretty sure he's saying the offense has underperformed. Even accounting for Brantley's injury...Yuli's disastrous year and various critical players going into extended slumps at various times (Bregman/Tucker/Alvarez/Mancini/Pena) make it a perfectly defensible statement.

To my eyes, their biggest problem is their penchant to go into team-wide funks for a stretch of games. That's the #1 red flag to me looking forward at the postseason.

 

I don't know about that he had what he thought the win totals should be.

If he said the offense, I would have no issue, but he thought this team should have been a 100 win team leading up to the year.

I have been worrying about the offense as well, I just hope this pitching staff continues to be very special.

 

If you have depth, you expect 4 or 5 guys to pick up the guys in a funk. That's why 3 black holes in the line-up are so aggravating.

That said, if I had to choose 2022 JV or 2022 Correa, I like what we got. But at the time it wasn't an easy call. But replacing much of what Correa was was giving us was easier than replacing JV. Yes we have pitching DEPTH. But you need that ACE.

 

Bingo.

Managerial decisions have cost us a few wins this year, I would add.

 

Somewhere Jimy Williams is smiling.

"Can you explain why you chose to [do X] in [Y situation], given that [Z was an option]?"

"Manager's decision. Next question."

 

1st half Bregman was atrocious. Mancini has been as horrific as Yuli. Vazquez has spurts but been down. Maldy was struggling to break .100 for the first third. Tucker had a notorious bad start. Yordan was on MVP pace until he hit a wall. Pena started strong then faded but got back to respectable. Siri/Meyers had really bad stretches that one was dealt and the other was demoted. The only one that maintained any level of consistency is Altuve.

 

LMJ was 2nd in ERA among qualified starters last year. Then you know...

 

Triggered a memory. I think there was a scandal about the X,Y,Z Affair.

 

And we're all hoping for at least 3 years of JV, Valdez, McCullers and Javier doing their best at bringing 4 Aces to the table. Garcia Urquidy and Brown could make us better than the 90s Braves.

 

John Adams administration re: foreign policy with France.

 

Pretty sure Marshall was in High School then, no wonder he remembers it.

 

Time for Click to show he is worth a damn this off season. Get things done.

 

For the playoffs only I might have to seriously give consideration to CC over JV with this teams makeup if you put a gun to my head. CC at SS. Pena at 1B.

Altuve
Yordan
Bregmna
Tucker
Correa
Mancini
Pena
Chas
Vasquez

I might prefer that lineup to what we end up getting more than I'd prefer JV starting game one instead of Brown, Urquidy or Garcia being the 4th starter.

 

No TV then as I recall... Had to wait for the yellow journalists.

 

Everyone has had spurts including first week back Meyers until he had that sliding catch. Yuli has become... a doubles machine... just shocking a team that is not strikeout heavy since Chris Carter and Colby Rasmus left has become incredibly streaky in dominating or pop ups.