Chas has some pop in his bat. If he could get his average up, he could be a really nice addition. Plus he seems to have a pretty good knack for situational hitting. Hope he can continue developing.
I wasn't really trying to make any kind of point about it. I was just looking at the box score and it surprised me. It's scary to think what this lineup would look like if everyone was going good.
Such a Houston Astros baseball kind of series. Outscore these clowns 22-12, outhit them 36-21, win the series 2 games to 1, and drop a game on the Oakland Athletics.
Offense is on an absolute rampage right now. Never any doubt that this team would put up runs. Another ho hum outing from the ace. Didn't have close to his best stuff and still 7 strong.
Astros were a few bad ball-strike calls away from a sweep. Let's get a winning streak going and have lucky Oakland lose and realize "they are who we thought they were".
Why his psychologist/mental health coach hasn't blown up and become the official team doctor is beyond me. You only hope that other pitchers consider those sorts of services when they see the transformation Framber was able to accomplish. His stuff was always good, just inconsistent. Now we're looking at a fairly decent sample size... with a **** ton of high leverage starts in playoff-type games (which without fans basically equates to really important regular season games with fans), and he looks as calm/mentally strong as ever in every circumstance. He even avoided any sort of let down with Stubbs catching him and an ump who's still trying to figure out the difference between actual strikes, catcher framed perceived strikes, and pitches that he probably just flat-out guessed on (as a lot of umps have admitted they sometimes do).
Oakland: 16-5 vs. teams .400 or below. 14-22 vs. teams above .400. Games remaining against below .400 teams: 22 (19 vs. the Rangers and 3 vs. Tigers) Can I place a futures bet on Oakland finishing at 85-77 or worse?
Sure! But the odds won't be good outside of Oakland. The Astros have a huge advantage in the AL West. We don't ever have to face the Astros Offense, much less for nineteen games.
Loving these series wins. We laid a little bit of a dud on Saturday, but came back nicely to close it out.
In June, he is hitting .318/.385/..667 He is a monster vs righties on the road. https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/40574/chas-mccormick
I missed his homer (Chas) yesterday, just saw the highlight and boy was that a blast. Straight away CF and waaaaay up over the fence. That was a bomb
