Actually, it was kind of pathetic. During his 2nd - second! - start, someone actually posted, "Dude may win the CY.." That was *during* his second start. The first... ~20 pages of this thread are virtually a pitch-by-pitch update on Velasquez. Yeah, what indeed... what are you talking about?
Silly me... Let's lower the bar to 150 innings pitched... In any ONE year. It's clear you've got some bias to be a pro VV guy... Good for you. Don't be mad when the reality that he's an injury prone pitcher sets in.
Someone on the internets said a player might win an award after a 23 year old threw a historic complete game 3 hit shutout with 16 k's? Wow! That is crazy. Virtually a pitch by pitch update? What? It's sad when a super homer loses it over former players. Get a hold of yourself. Wait until I start posting Fowler's stats. You might have an aneurysm. Not. More. Former. Player. Stats. Schhhhhaaaaauuuuub!!! :grin: How many different people do you pretend to be at the same time. How do you even keep track of that? Mkay buddy. VV4HoF
Are you having a moment of self-introspection here? I don't think anybody wishes VV any ill-will... But you're the only one admonishing the club and calling them out daily with each VV performance. Now that the predictable has happened, you seem to be lashing out with a vengeance, to the point that your wenis is showing...
Silly you. Maybe McCullers will hit your magic 150 innings this year. I hope so. I have a bias for a lot of former Astros because I'm an Astros fan and a baseball fan. I don't simply root for laundry and I don't get anything from being an Astros kiss ass like apparently you do. You're like the Bobby of this forum, kill them with volume. Go on slugger.
Again... Wenis... Showing. And yes, I'll take the bet that LMJ pitches more innings as a starter in his MLB career than VV. That's exactly why the Astros chose to trade the guy they traded (and why you would even bring up LMJ here, when nobody else has, explicitly highlights your VV-for-life stance). You can back off the ledge and have a VV vigil on your own, nobody is attacking you. When you see VV at the hospital prior to his next surgery, you can show him on the doll where Luhnow touched you...
That was merely an appetizer to the crazy. Anyway, yes - each of his starts, often during said starts, were being orgasmicly reported on - until, of course, said starts stopped being small-sample spectacular. It's sad when someone purporting to be a super homer expends too much of their energy logging the success of former players as a means to carelessly rip the current regime. I'm no homer; but acting like the Astros are the first team to ever have a really good roster of former players makes me think you haven't been a sports fan very long. I don't even know what this means - honestly, do you? I don't know "CometsWin" - one? I literally have no idea what you're talking about here. I pretend to be different people?.... Are you ok? Do you need a breather? I fear you may be having a stroke.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vince Velasquez said he's not concerned about the injury. Not sure if he will miss time.</p>— Matt Breen (@matt_breen) <a href="https://twitter.com/matt_breen/status/740644893492662272">June 8, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Didn't want injury, but selfishly, VV's dropoff did bring me some joy. 3.65 ERA in the NL projects to 4.10 in the AL. Solid 4th starter, at best.
Bregman's been in a massive slump for the past couple of weeks, that's not typically when you promote someone.
6 for his last 24 after getting 2 hits tonight... Not great at .250, but add in 5 walks and that's a .380 on base I know those two stats don't tell the whole story, and there has been a drop off, but wouldn't call it a massive slump
Which says a lot about sample size...went from 6 for 37 to 6 for 24, from .162 to .250...one night and like i said, he has walked quite a bit which keeps the on base up now I would have to be watching the games to see how he has actually done, don't know the babip, don't know if he has been having good at bats and just ripping balls right at people...maybe swinging so hard his helmet if flailing off :grin:
Personally I have no ill will against ex Astro players. But selfishly, I want the Astros to have won or at least push on each of their past trades. You don't want your team to be the butt of the joke when you see the losers on trades revisited articles.
I agree. I was just looking at his last 10 games played. He's walked more than he's struck out during that time which is encouraging but it's hard to tell how he's doing without actually seeing his at bats. An example, people look at the box score from last night and will see that Gomez went 0-3 with 2 K's and a walk which doesn't look good. However he actually looked in control most of his AB's and I think his helmet only flailed off once!
