A game under .500 since June 12, 2015. Not as bad as I would have thought. (52-48 last year; 30-35 this year) — 82-83
At what point does the front office square aimly at the coaching staff for this teams regression? Correa, Gomez, Keuchel, rasmus, McHugh, Valbuena, Giles coming in and regressing significantly. Players like Fowler, Carter (to a degree), Villar, Martinez, Lowrie leaving and becoming legitimate players. I dont trust this staff one iota to know how to maximize the production from any of our players not named Altuve. Getting 2-hit by Matt freakin Moore is a flat out joke. Lunhow needs to stop looking at 1.5 good months last year as some sort of validation of the competency of this squad.
He has become a number 5 starter, and not a good one either. Out of 5 years, 3 with plus 5 ERA. Straily has a 3.15 ERA, ouch
@jakemkaplan: Keuchel: "Should have been out of the inning. It’s Major League Baseball. Can’t give extra outs. That’s the way things are going.”
Keuchel has definitely been awful this year. But he could have been perfect today and it wouldn't have mattered. The team is horrendous at the plate.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Keuchel: "Should have been out of the inning. It’s Major League Baseball. Can’t give extra outs. That’s the way things are going.”</p>— Jake Kaplan (@jakemkaplan) <a href="https://twitter.com/jakemkaplan/status/742090221769089025">June 12, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> You also shouldn't have walked their 8 and 9 hitters batting under .200. Control what you can control..just saying..
Would you please just shut your w**** mouth? My goodness, you're ****ing terrible. Even broken records eventually stop, but not you. Spare us, please!
Valbuena hasn't regressed. Correa is in his first full season. Keuchel & McHugh went from garbage to great before returning to bad. Jed Lowrie has a .706 OPS. Dexter Fowler posted the highest OPS+ of his career during his lone season here. JD's main change occurred while he was still an Astro, but the team didn't give him a chance after his swing change.
Keuchel gonna become the first? Cy Young winner to win 20+ games and then lose 20 the next season? Baseball hasn't had a 20-game loser since 2003 - is that right? Mike Maroth.
Straily's peripherals are very mediocre. He has a 4.28 FIP and 4.60 xFIP. Keuchel, prior to this game, had a 3.99 FIP and a 3.53 xFIP believe it or not. McHugh's FIP and xFIP are 3.82 and 3.97 respectively.
Not to mention that Rasmus is another guy who hasn't necessarily "regressed". He just is a very volatile and streaky player. He's been that way his whole career.
Well, the reason it continues is because we continue to suck, once we star winning or doing a good job, then positive things will be posted. Now, my question to you is, would you want to have Straily right now? Would you sign long term and big money to K?
They traded for Gomez last season. It hasn't worked out. They knew and know they need help there. I don't really want them to trade prospects for guys like Braun and Carlos Gonzalez right now. Not worth it. I'd rather they eventually bring up Reed and Bregman this year and then ride it out. Then see what they can do in the offseason to add. Too bad that this next free agent period is one of the worst in years.
Team is limited offensively, same as last year, but the starters aren't as good this year. Keuchel, McHugh, and Fiers have all regressed. Correa is having maybe a sophomore slump, but has shown clutch ability at least. Hopefully he comes around more overall by season's end. Gattis and Valbuana have mostly been feast of famine players in their careers who will go on hot and cold streaks at extreme levels. Hard to blame the coaching staff when these same players did the same thing last year, some of whom have improved since being here (Keuchel, McHugh, Springer, Harris, Altuve, etc).
