Of course, he needed to work in a subtle jab. It is Peter Gammons, after all. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Reminded that John Kosciak, scout who drafted and singed Springer, left Astros in 2012. No explanation necessary</p>— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) <a href="https://twitter.com/pgammo/statuses/470570565502509057">May 25, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Scouts were drafting and signing 1st rounders all on their own during the old regime, huh? Good work as usual, Gammons!
I would move him there, he seems over all the "newness" of the bigs. Put him in 4 hole and top of our lineup is legit
What is the implication here? That the Astros are stupid for letting go the scout who "discovered" Springer and that the Astros scouting department is weaker for that? Because there is a wealth of evidence to suggest our scouting department is extremely strong right now.
Peter Gammons, who I used to love, seems to thinks the Astros are a cancer in baseball. He's made numerous comments about it. He just has to make sure he doesn't appear positive about anything the Astros do, so he had to throw in a negative jab. He praised Correa earlier this season, thought he had the best chance to be a star, but he made sure to suggest the Astros only sent him to Lancaster to slow his MLB arrival date. Tons of little jabs like this, I've really lost all respect for him as a writer.
I'm hearing nowadays in the moneyball era with all these advanced stats the 2 spot is the new best cleanup hitter spot, ecspecially if you put a leadoff type hitter at 8-9. More AB's throughout the game, would make since why dominguez and Villar are still so late in the order even though they are having good years..
Marwin Gonzalez thrown out by a mile on a breaking ball that hit the dirt, and forced the catcher to leave his crouch to field the ball... I had to rub my eyes to truly believe that he had attempted to get a jump on that. I think the 'ol analytic machine was broken when it said that Marwin should have as many steal attempts as possible, or be used in virtually all pinch-running situations.
When that still outperforms what guys like Carter and Krauss are doing further up the lineup. I agree that if Villar was "better", he wouldn't be batting 9th.
Advanced warning: It probably won't be long before I'm going to post "We may as well have just kept Brett Wallace". I don't think I can hold off till Singleton is up here. He's better than Krauss or Guzman.
Krauss was unproven coming into the season, so their was some reason to give him a chance, but yes he isn't an MLB player. I understand the situation with Singleton, whether I like it or not. Presley is a proven MLB player, and not in the good way. We really need to give those PA to somebody else. Hoes, Grossman, Wates, anybody.
No idea what they see in Guzman. He's about to turn 30, and is striking out nearly 30% of the time, without showing huge power or post a decent OBP.
Krauss has been the bigger disappointment thus far for sure. At 26, he's going to have some work to do when he gets sent back down to AAA. Yet another case of why spring training stats do not matter.
