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Re: Astros 2024
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04/10/24 02:26 PM
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The Royals at home tonight. I hope they left Jose Abreu in Arlington. He’s killing this Astros team. Definitely not covering himself in glory. He makes a 91 mph fastball look like 101... I thought they should have left him In Chicago last season. I think he only has a 2 year contract, hopefully he won’t be back next season. His batting average was .067 at the start of tonight’s game.not sure of how many errors he’s had. I’ve lost count. He signed a new 3 year contract for 58,500,000 in 2023, making it 19,500,000 a year. Definitely not a smart move by the stros. I tell you…what’s happening to pitchers (aces) is pretty alarming. The Astros and Rangers have (if you count Valdez) 8 starters on IL.
Not to mention aces for Cleveland, Atlanta, Yankees and others out for the season, ot at least a good part of it.
Are pitchers becoming like running backs? Get ‘em, use ‘em up and get more? Problem is also the money being paid.
At some point fans aren’t going to be interested in a matchup of Andrew Heaney and Blair Henley…. Verlander thinks its the fact that pitchers now are trying to throw as hard a possible now to get strike outs as opposed to pitch placement and speed variation. I tend to agree with him.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/11/24 02:02 AM
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Another rookie pitcher tonight. Looked good til the 7 run 3rd inning.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/11/24 03:37 PM
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Another rookie pitcher tonight. Looked good til the 7 run 3rd inning. I think he has a bright future but not ready yet. I wish they would just give bauer a chance. It would atleast give us one more starter that has experience and for really cheap.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/11/24 11:20 PM
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Hunter Brown got taken behind the woodshed this afternoon. Gave up 9 runs in the first inning.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/12/24 12:13 AM
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Pitching staff is in shambles right now.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/13/24 02:50 AM
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Threads kinda quiet tonight……
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/13/24 02:15 PM
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Don’t think they could play any worse right now. Kinda like watching the bad news bears. The manager has the deer in the headlights look. I believe he’s overwhelmed. 6 pitchers on the injured list isn’t helping the situation. It’s gonna be a long season.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/13/24 03:41 PM
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I think this is a pitching issue. Bagwell made a great observation last night about how those issues cascade across the entire team. The offense is feeling tremendous pressure to make up for the bad pitching, which causes them to get outside of their own game, make base-running mistakes, swing at bad pitches, etc. Even Verlander just getting back on the roster should be a confidence booster.
That said, no team who scores 8 runs should lose. But you just cannot expect an offense to score double-digits every night in MLB in order to win, which is basically what they've had to do so far.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/13/24 10:41 PM
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Yup. Looking like the team we know. Heck, even Abreu is giving some production.
Nice win.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 12:31 AM
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Was watching, but had to leave at end of 6th inning. Will watch replay in the morning to see the big 7th inning.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 02:24 PM
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Threads kinda quiet tonight…… Rangers thread been quiet a few days.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 02:25 PM
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First pitch 1:10 this afternoon.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 06:58 PM
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Altuve has 2 solo homers in 3 innings so far. Spacemen lead 2-0 in the 3rd.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 07:24 PM
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Another good inning with three more on the board.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 08:31 PM
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Paused the game for a while, just in the top of the 7th. Agree, lots of positives again today.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 08:43 PM
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Stros offense and pitching looks solid right now; Rangers not so much...Pretty pedestrian offense this series and last vs Oakland for them. As said, long season to go....
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 08:52 PM
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Game over! I won't say who won.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/14/24 09:25 PM
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Spacemen take a 1 game lead in the Silver Boot Series 2024.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/15/24 12:09 AM
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This is how it turns around. Time to focus on the Braves.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/16/24 12:51 AM
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That 2nd inning was going great and then it fell apart real quick.
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Re: Astros 2024
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04/16/24 12:53 AM
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Abreu needs to go to the house...
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