I wouldn't give the **** up yet, if you haven't paid attention to his managerial confarculations all season, then you won't know why he's terrible now.
And lost in the Division series. Had Verlander, Cole, Morton, and Keuchel as the pitching staff.....LOL. McCullers Jr. was the #5 starter. You want to compare that rotation to this one? LOL.
I know he's Black, and he's an absolute great guy, everyone thinks so... and everything, but if you have not seen the managerial dipshittery, all ****ing season, then you don't know much about watching baseball. Sorry, man, but he is completely incompetent as an in-game manager.
Meh... he did the opposite in the beginning of the season... keep everyone in their 'regular' spot but throw in your scrub giving someone the day off in a ridiculous part of the lineup. Myles Straw had no business being in the 1 or 2 hole.
Um... that was ALCS. Playoff are such a small sample size that randomness has an impact. If Bregman just got the ball one inch shallower or to Benintendi's right...
2021 Tampa Bay Rays: #2 in Runs Scored (5 runs or .03 per game behind 2021 Astros) #5 in ERA (2021 Astros are currently #6 .02 behind the Rays) Tied for #4 in fielding percentage (a whole .002 behind the Astros) The 2021 Rays and Astros have basically no meaningful distinction in these numbers. If you want to say Dusty Baker is the reason the Ray's have won 5 more games than the Astros, fine. No one will convince you otherwise, but that's still no where near a 13 game difference.
Thought this recent blog was interesting given Dusty’s lineups seems to have come up a few times in this thread: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-tucker-is-hitting-seventh-and-thats-fine/
Good news. After a one run win yesterday and a blow out loss today, the Astros are now only 6 games behind their Pythagorean win-loss instead of 7. Dusty has apparently picked up a win with his managing in the last two games.
Dusty is trying to outdo George Karl in choke jobs. This coasting against far too many teams will cost us.
You asked for a team with well past 100 wins and then I give you one, and now you're babbling about what that team did in the playoffs. Let's stay focused on the task at hand. This Astros team should have won well over 100 times and Dusty has obviously held us back.
Not with this pitching staff. Tell me who is the Ace? Tell me who is the #2 starter? I see a minimum 2- #3s and 2-4 starters. 100 win teams have 1 or 2 Aces on the starting staff. The 2019 had 2 CY Young winners pitching at the top their game. And that doesn't include Gerrtt Cole and Morton.
"Then, as the Reds drifted, then nose-dived late in the year, Baker insisted there was no need for urgency." Smith: Right about now, Astros could use a sense of urgency https://www.houstonchronicle.com/te...out-now-Astros-could-use-a-sense-16498064.php
