take away that error on feldman and we'd still be playing in extra innings. had the bases loaded twice. I aint even mad. 20 days til carter starts swinging and connecting on every pitch. June is coming!
Oh yeah this offense is stellar! What was I thinking? The pitching has been key to where we are right now. Cant win alot of games scoring one run no matter who you put on the mound. But hey don' t let me burst your bubble if you think things are going great.
Eh - they are 4th in ERA and 6th in Runs scored. They are doing pretty well both hitting and pitching.
Stats don't tell the story. Timely hitting is more important than stats. Pouring it on a team builds stats. Not being able to score on the Rangers with a pitcher with an era of 8.66 or letting Wandy shut you down or being one hit today is whats concerning.
That's the GM's job.... your post said that Hinch needs to "shake it up". Hinch is doing what he can with what is being given to him. My guess is that Tucker takes Grossman's spot when Springer comes back (even more likely if Tucker shows some pop in his remaining starts). And we all know who will be up for Villar eventually...
Eh, over 162 games, you're going to see stretches and statistical anomalies like this. Just like they had a stretch when they beat the Padres best 3 pitchers (who were all pitching well) and had their worst pitchers look good against a solid Mariner's lineup.
you're right. we probably do win. let me dream! he did pitch an outstanding game. Bats were just dormant. I'd take that from feldman every start, bad throws included.
What do you think the hold up is? I mean Jed is out, wouldn't this be the perfect time? Is it about the money?
This team has had a ton of timely hitting this season. If that's your standard, the hitting has not just been good, but phenomenal. Every team in baseball gets shut down by bad pitchers and tees off on good ones. Baseball is a game of averages, but those averages have very high standard deviations. The best hitters will go into big slumps. The worst hitters will have hot streaks. The best pitchers will suck for extended stretches. The worst pitchers will go on extraordinary runs.
He has a played a total of 29 games above A ball and 91 games above Low-A. That's a valid reason to let him stay down a bit longer although I would like to seem him in AAA.
Haven't we had an endless string of late inning comebacks? For a chunk of that winning streak, it seemed like you could just count on whoever was coming up in the 9th to get the big hits. Or everytime we got behind early, we'd tie it up an inning or two later. Just a couple of days ago, we had a 3-run comeback in the 9th in this series. We're 8-2 in 1-run games. Those can play out in a lot of different ways, but that generally seems to indicate a lot of good pitching and hitting in critical moments. Our relievers also have 9 of our 20 wins, indicating that we are taking a lot of leads late in the game.
You're right as usual, Major. I guess I'm a bit overly critical due to their season-long ineptitude in leaving men on base. 3rd in MLB in OPS, 10th in BA, 5th in OBP, 5th in SLG in "late & close" situations. They're 24th in MLB in BA with RISP (21st in OBP, 18th in SLG)- .225/.325/396 and are striking out 24% of the time.
We're 8-2 in 1-run games, but Astros are also not scoring as many runs as the peripheral stats would suggest. Pythagorean has Astros winning 2 more than they should have, and BaseRuns has it being only 1 run. Not nearly as lopsided in the luck department as the 1-run games would indicate.
