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True confessions of an Astros’ fan

Like many an Astros fan living through a frustrating sweep of the Astros this weekend, I have been feeling a lot of anger along with frustration. On top of losing three games to the Mariners, a team that has been successfully chasing the Astros (now half a game back), it occurred as the team the Astros were unsuccessfully chasing, the Rangers, were ripe for the taking as they were being swept by the Brewers.

But along with feeling anger and frustration towards my favorite team, I must confess I had one more overwhelming emotion this weekend. Shame.

You may ask, why would anyone other than the Astros themselves feel shame at this point? I may be alone on this, but there are several things driving me here.

  • I’m cheering for the two-time World Champions, who, as recently as last October, thrilled me with two sweeps in the playoffs and then a World Series where they trailed 2-1 and then roared through a final three wins to bring a smile to my face and tears to my eyes.
  • I think of my father, who passed away in 2001. From 1966, when we moved here, to his death, he was an extremely loyal fan of the Astros. But in all that time, he never saw them win a single playoff series, much less a championship. I’ve been blessed to be here for this Renaissance period.
  • There are 29 other teams in the majors, most of whom are unsuccessfully pursuing a major league crown. Am I turning into some entitled Yankee-ish fan who believes that not getting to the big game every other year is some kind of shameful result? As I sometimes have to remind myself when one of our pitchers has a bad outing…. The other team gets paid too.
  • I’m also acting like it is all over, that this team cannot pull it together this season. That may be true, and if it is, what do I have to complain about with a team that has had a winning record for 8 straight seasons (and will likely repeat this season), has made 7 of 8 playoffs (and would still make it if the season ended today) and has roared to at least the ALCS 6 times in a row, along with 4 World Series appearances and two championships. Shouldn’t I have some trust in them?
  • I, too often, look at these men as machines and not as men. They came into the season with the least amount of rest of any team not named the Phillies. They had about half the team playing in the WBC. They have lost significant time from key members of the team due to injury. They have people moving around and playing out of position. They make mistakes. So do I at work. Yes, I’m not making hundreds of thousands or millions, but I also don’t have millions looking over my shoulder and picking apart my performance minute to minute.

Well, you get the general idea. In my mind, I need to let this season play out and see if this team will once again take me on a long ride through the playoffs as so few other Astro teams have done. If they don’t make it, what do I really have to complain about? Not much.

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  1. Good morning. This will be a grief post because I’m tired of rushing through the posting process and having my thoughts disappear.

    I have no shame. It’s not on me. When professional baseball players don’t catch a pop up on the mound, it’s a lack of focus. It’s not a skill issue.

    We should expect a certain level of professionalism. We’re not seeing it right now. Mental errors. A manager that refuses to use his resources properly. We can identify in real life with using resources properly.

    It’s easy to see that this batch of guys are not playing a cohesive, motivated game. There are issues in house. That’s pretty apparent. Martín Maldonado is not the leader they need to speak on their behalf. He’s the guy they don’t need.

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  2. DESPERATELY SEEKING INTERVENTION

    Hello, Dan. My name is Bill … and I am an Astro fan. Well, yes, it’s actually a little worse than that that, but are you really going to make me say the quiet part out loud? Okay, it’s your blog. “My name is Bill … and I am an Astroholic”. And I have been unclean now for … since ST 1962. I know, I’ve been in recovery multiple times before over the six decades of my addiction, but the struggle is … well, it’s just still so constant … and so real. I hear voices! I see the ghosts of Aspromonte, of Mejia, and of Farrell; of Dierker, Cedeno, Ryan, Rader, and Hidalgo; of Bagwell, Biggio, Reynolds, and Puma; of Springer, Morton, Correa, – and sometimes even Luke Scott, who finally got free! Lately I’m hearing darker voices – voices from the Fiers of Hades – or maybe it is Purgatory [I’m not Catholic, so I always get those a little confused!]. But I digress. To the point of your post …

    Look, fans do what fans do. We don’t play the game on the field, but our emotions rise and fall on at bats. We wish it weren’t so – especially when the entire team seems to have its head stuck up its ash heap – but it is. We can’t help it … we’re fans. We’re not serial killers. We are not human traffickers. We are not drug dealers. We are not child molesters. We are not drunk drivers. Heck, most of us don’t even jaywalk.

    Perhaps we should seek therapy; but wait … I thought this blog WAS therapy.

    No shame. No regrets. No crying in baseball. [We’ll get ’em next year!]

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  3. I hate watching sports with anyone from my wife’s family. They’re unrealistic and react childishly whenever their team is losing. They have the expectation that every handoff should go 80 yards to the house and there should never be a missed shot in basketball. Take away their scholarships! It’s a bit like reading many online comments from “fans” of the Astros. Daveb hit it on the head again. The mental mistakes are the ones we can be critical about. We used to talk all the time about the bad baserunning. Any pitcher can give up a big HR at the wrong time. Yordan can’t come through in every at bat. The whole thing about baseball is you get multiple chances per game to make an impact. As long as the effort is there I won’t complain…or at least not obsessively.

    Silver lining – they showed a little life and had a couple chances in the ninth yesterday. As I said the other day, they can’t afford to blow it against Boston and Texas coming up. We do get three against the Mariners right before the season ends, but we can’t make up any ground or increase our lead over anyone without winning some games.

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  4. I find Maldonado speaking for the team’s poor play ironic.
    When the Astros have one guy carrying the team like Tucker, this series without him speaks a lot about the rest of the team.
    After all these years, it appears Jon Singleton had one good game left in him.
    The W/L record for the Astros top 4 minor league teams the last week is stunningly bad. I check the box scores every night and the poor play in the organization goes from the top all the way to the bottom.

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    • 1OP, the Astro minor league system sure needs help. If Verlander helps get us into the post season, then I suppose his deadline deal had merit. But if this club does not come alive and goes home after 162 games, then losing those two prospects hurts more.

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      • I don’t have a problem with the JV trade regardless of the outcome this year. The prospects we traded were high end prospects “for us” due to the state of our system. The state of our system is pretty shabby with a few stand outs that we have to hope are underrated by the masses. That said, we have a log jam of MLB ready outfielders and there was likely no home for Gilbert in the immediate future. In exchange for these two guys we get JV at a rate that was likely less than we were willing to pay him in the off season.

        I’ve been lurking for years but this is my first post. Hope it makes it through the work filter.

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  5. The inevitable ebb and flow of the MLB season impacts every tm. Injuries, the grind of the season, mental lapses, sporadic hitting, ect. Other tms, including the good ones, have gone through these phases and weathered the storms. It’s what good tms do. I cant’t recall a time this tm had these many inj and yes, I’ve complained about their off woes as early as last yr. But they always came back. And I am looking forward to them returning to prominence this yr to make some noise win or lose. But….this tm feels out of sorts. UK, like you I feel there are internal issues ripping at the seams. If so I hope they get addressed to get this tm on track.

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  6. I tried to give Diaz kudos for the patience he is trying to show at the plate, taking pitches and not swinging at everything within the area code of the zone. And he has hit in every gm played this week except for that one PH appearance.
    Again, lauding Diaz, he is making it impossible, to keep his bat out the lineup with the tm scuffling to score runs. It is, you know, who hinders the kid’s ability to play regularly. And second, Diaz has, so far, utterly destroyed the notion that Maldy’s virtues behind the dish for the benefit of certain pitchers and manager, oh, and tm, prove vital to this tm. No one controls Fraamber’s implosions and Verlander can’t honestly say Maldy’s presence makes him a better pitcher. It is time for someone upstairs to put this albatross to rest for the sake of the tm. Dusty hasn’t and won’t.
    I can’t forget that Diaz is a rookie and subject to ebb and flow of inexperience. He’s still the man behind the dish for most of us.

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  8. Anger? Check. Frustration? Check. Shame? I’m glad I don’t buy or wear any sports team’s overpriced swag. Especially this team. Check.

    But after reading the indignant comments from MaldoNADA and Bregman (the two guys who have choked on this season more than any others) about how the TEAM needs to play better and yadda yadda yadda, I am disgusted.

    NOW, at this stage of the season, they FINALLY remember that baseball is a TEAM sport? Is it the TEAM’S fault that MaldoNADA has struck out 105 times (so far) this season? Is it the TEAM’S fault Alex Bregman can’t seem to get a ball past the warning track in any field in MLB except MMP and not very often there?

    Both of them need to look into the mirror on their locker door (you KNOW it’s there the way they love themselves) and talk to that guy first!

    And I won’t even mention how I feel every time I see the image of Mr. Toothpick. Suffice it to say that I have a barf bag near the chair every time I tune into an Astros game lately.

    Of these three guys, only one is worth anything to any other baseball team. They had better get some value out of him while they can before he, too, is completely worthless to anybody.

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  9. The series with Seattle were tm losses. both offense and defense contributed to those loses.
    The bullpen has been taxed the past few gms and would love to see the offense take some pressure off the staff. It is not like they are not hitting, but those timely hits with the bases juiced has eluded them.

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  10. It feels desperate not having Brantley’s bat in the lineup. The top of the order will get soon enough, I hope. Branley’s (possible) return should remove a dead bat out the lineup and they will only have to cover for Maldy/Abreu (if he remains impotent, lol).
    Hitting wise the bench is an anchor that mostly disappoints during AB’s. And we have that to look forward to the remainder of the season unless there is a September callup or someone gets hot.
    I am anxious to see how the rest of the season play out. If they win, and win it all I am happy, and will thank those I hope to see retire for their contributions. If they lose, I expect to see changes to fix what is broken.

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    • Old School and others – I am attempting (again) to get a fix for people and their disappearing comments. If possible – could you please, try the following to see if it works – type out your comment in Word or some other word processing program and then copy it from there and paste it into the Chipalatta comment section to see if it works ?

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  13. Actually Dan, I tried typing post on another WP on my tablet earlier but did not work. But, my last two post’s, after posting the 2nd to last one, it worked fine because I was not required to re-enter email/name. All I had to do was post comment. Same with the last one (not this). Again did not have to enter email/name and it worked fine.
    Silly me, could have prob post both together had I snapped

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  14. I think frustration is the result of knowing the Astros have the talent needed to win, but for various reasons (injuries, mental lapses, managerial decisions, bad luck, etc.) just aren’t playing as well as we have seen them do in the past.

    Shame? No, I think the owners of the A’s, Royals and Rockies should be ashamed of the AAAA teams they put on the field.

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  15. Julia Morales just called MaldoNADA a “team leader”. He sure is. He leads the team in strikeouts, passed balls, and runners LOB. With “leaders” like that, who needs a manager?

    Not us, apparently……

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    • If I hadn’t been expecting it, I would’ve been surprised at Javier’s complete inability to find the strike zone with both hands and a map.

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  20. We’re awfully lucky that Paxton is pitching just as bad as Javier. As Dusty knows all too well, it’s better to be lucky than good.

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  21. Bases loaded with nobody out, a defense that gives you 5 outs in the inning, and you still can only score once? This ain’t no championship caliber team, y’all.

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  22. The way both these pitchers are shooting themselves in the lower legs, it’s likely going to come down to who runs out of ammo first. Very sloppy game from both teams. Yucky.

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  23. The Astros have problems – but Bregman is on pace (before today’s game) for 94 runs and 105 RBIs – he is not Maldonado.

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  24. Imagine if Yanier had gotten another 100+ plate appearances and caught at least half the games where we might be right now. Good to see the offense wake up and the bull pen did a good job. A few scary moments but in the end it was all good.

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  25. A win is a win. But that was an ugly one. Kind of like watching two special ed kids duking it out on the playground from a second floor window. You dare not laugh and cannot break it up. I’m glad Javier ran out of ammo before Paxton did, though.

    The offense may have straightened themselves out. MaldoNADA only struck out 3 times and actually got a couple hits. Proving that even a blind pig can dig up an acorn once in a while.

    But they’ve fooled us before. So I’m keeping expectations for tomorrow very low.

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  26. Javier is 9-2. Last year he was 10-9. I’d rather have the 10-9 version.

    Diaz hits anything as long as he’s not a DH. He’s only had 6 starts at first, but he’s hitting .417 with a 1.358 OPS over there. He needs reps on defense. Once a week wold have been nice 5 months ago. And he’s up to a .232 BA against lefty starters. He’ll figure it out.

    Every guy in the line up had a hit last night. That’s helpful.

    Texas, Astros, Blue Jays, Seattle. It’s going to be a battle.

    Red Sox were very helpful last night. I don’t expect them to hand us three more.

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    • What if all these ‘missed’ calls we are seeing are not ‘missed’ at all. What if the MLB is refusing tomorrow use electronic ball/strike calling because umpire discretion (under rules of team and hitter/pitcher favor handed down from the Commissioner?) allow the league to assure some teams win more and some teams lose more?

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      • It is an interesting theory Mr. Bill, except for my observation over the years that 1) Angel can and does miss a massive amount of calls either way throughout the game and 2) That after suing his bosses – he does not seem to be a company man.
        But what if – they came up to Angel and said ” Hey Angel, you know how you lost that lawsuit against baseball over discrimination? Well, what if we could give you promotion and honors if you call games the way we want them?”
        The only problem with this is that if he can’t tell balls from strikes normally, how will he cheat?

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      • I’ve thought that for a couple decades already. We know the big money gamblers (i.e. organized crime) has been rigging basketball games and football games for a long time. And now with Boyfred as commish, MLB has actually gotten in on the action and claimed their slice of the vig with this online betting stuff.

        So why would any rational person not believe they would cheat in baseball, too?

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    • Hernandez is absolutely the worst umpire in MLB. There is no doubt about that. I think that he is a strong contender to be the worst umpire in MLB history. Has he ever called a good game?

      But this article really chaps my hide, too. Doesn’t ANYBODY do any proofreading at all anymore? My God, it reads like it was written by a sixth grade dropout! But what else should one expect from Microsoft, I suppose……

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  28. Assuming Frenchy is in center and Maldy behind the plate and Chas is in left, that puts Yordan in the DH role and I’m guessing the manager will put Singleton at first as a defensive priority for Verlander which means Diaz will have to sit.

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    • Twisted logic. Diaz can do much more positive damage with one swing of the bat than he would negatively at first base. I sure hope John Singleton puts up a game, because we’re back to 4 of our 9 in the line up being offensive liabilities. What’s worse is that I’m finally figuring our the manager. He’s irrational.

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      • I figured out his irrationality a while back. Just not allowed to mention it here.
        He is a metastasized cancer on the whole organization and he needs to be eliminated as soon as possible. I only hope Crane can see what is so obvious to everybody else and isn’t afraid to perform the surgery that is necessary.

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  30. I just don’t understand it anymore. We’re in the middle of a battle and the general has decided to take our guns away and has given us rocks to throw at the enemy. I’m befuddled….again.

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      • Yordan has not looked like himself for about a fortnight now. I noticed last night when he was batting that he was holding up one of two fingers (I think it was his left hand) while gripping the bat. Was thinking at the time that his hands may well be bothering him again.
        Could explain why he hasn’t been hitting the ball as hard as he usually does. Probably hurts like the devil.

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  32. BwHAHAHAHAHAHA Sure wouldn’t want to be Devers right now.

    But he’s rich and I’m not. So there’s that……

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  33. Excellent bunt. Great base running. Tidy game for the Astros so far. I’d like to see all 9 innings go the same way.

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  34. Not possible to go a whole game without an error, I guess. Still not as bad as being a Red Sox fan, but geez…… 😦

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  35. Counting my blessings tonight. No matter how bad it gets the rest of this season, at least I don’t have to be a Red Sox fan. This has gotta be excruciatingly embarrassing…..

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  36. Good to see that Monterrible wasn’t able to blow a 6 run lead. Though he tried. His long term signing was the 2nd worst move our new GM made last winter. The worst one, sadly, will be coming back soon.

    But this was a better win than last night anyway.

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    • If I recall correctly our new GM (Dana Brown) did not sign Montero, Abreu or Brantley (extension). That was done on the advice of the “Committee” (Bagwell, Jackson, Crane, asst. GM’s, et all). I don’t believe Dana Brown would have made those deals. In defense of the signing of Abreu at the time almost everyone thought it was a great signing. Obviously it’s turned out to be quite a stinker. The Montero extension was what I would call a brain fart by someone and to a lesser degree Brantley.

      Glad to see another “W” tonight. JV was on target and getting some well deserved run support. Boston gets an “attaboy” for the errors that contributed to several runs.

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  37. Boy, the tone of the game sure is different when Verlander shows up out there. I hope he’s ready to go on a streak and maybe even help guys like Framber remember what it takes to own a game. I’d hate to miss the post season after making the big trade and Verlander can’t overcome a shaky rotation, Maldy and Dusty all by himself.

    Four hits from the bottom of the line up again, two by Jon Singleton. Good to see.

    And almost an error free game. One low throw by Pena that Altuve should have handled. Is Pena going to magically morph into a late season wonder again, or is his lethargic play what we should expect? One thought. He sure bulked up during the off season, to the point of not looking like a typical baseball player out there. He might have helped screw himself up.

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  38. Thoughts
    – Good performance by the Astros – weird to think if the Red Sox had swept us this series they would have closed the gap to us like the M’s did
    – Tucker’s home run swing seems shorter than before – much less loopy
    – My brother calls Devers the Butcher of Boston – kind of like Michael Jackson, wearing a glove on one hand for no reason
    – Though he got in a bit of trouble in his last inning, it was sure nice to see the JV, who gets those swing and misses
    – Singleton did a good job of going to deep right center twice – once caught, once a double and then turning on that one for a double down the right field line
    – Brilliant bunt by Maldy and then he seemed to trundle right next to the ball rolling as a bit of a distraction. You almost never see balls hug the line without spinning off the field. Dubon – very smart baserunning as he knew that even if Devers got home ahead of him – he would be in no position to stop and make the tag. It looked like some kind of backyard play.
    – I think I heard the Yanks have lost 9 in a row. The papers and fans must be having complete conniption fits.
    – They were saying on the radio that the M’s and Rangers have 7 games head to head to beat each either up. That only helps us if we take care of business.
    – If we don’t like the lineups now – not sure what we do when Abreu returns and when/if Brantley finally returns

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  39. I’m sure I’m not alone in a few thoughts –

    Sense of relief night – to see JV look like JV last night. He was dealing. I still am not sure why the Astros pitching staff is pitching around Urias that way – it feels like he is just walking every other at bat – but he worked around that inning.

    The Red Sox are just bad defensively. I wanted to que up circus music for them last night. It wasn’t just errors, it was plays the last 2 days that didn’t even go down as errors they should have made. Devers is just not very good defensively.

    It was good to see the 2 hits from Jon. I love redemption stories. A better CFer would have taken that first double from him but the second was a no doubter. I love his command of the strike zone though he seems to get got by those low inside sliders from righties – I think he gets a little anxious when he gets up 2-0 and wants to do damage – but he can lay off pitches with the best of them. His babip hasn’t just been a product of bad luck on balls in play – he has a high fly out rate, and his LD rate is well below major league average. His exit velocity average is right at MLB average but he has a lower rate of 100+ EVs. He just so far hasn’t made things hard on the defense. It’s been easy groundouts and lazy fly balls. Like his batting average though its small sample and they can change quickly. Or they might not and a sub .200 hitter who draws a ton of walks and hits some homeruns might be just who he is. Doesn’t matter, Abreu gets him sent back down anyway, 58.5M says so. Man what a bad contract.

    We can beat up on Dusty all we want about Diaz. Dusty don’t care. But I will say unlike Chas, Yainer is not making this impossible. We all here at chipalatta are getting a little vindication – UK even more so since he was clamoring for Chas to be put in CF and left alone with Dan back in November – but we all figured out before Dusty did apparently that he is an everyday joe now. Now it hasn’t been CF, but they maybe because Dusty has had to use Meyers and Dubon due to availabilities the last week, and may continue that way until Brantley and Alvarez both are ready to go. That will be the true look at what Dusty is thinking is a game 1 lineup in a playoff series. I can’t see anything other than Yordan in LF and Chas in CF with Brantley at DH if everyone is there and available, but again, with Dusty, he don’t care what we think. As for Yainer, we know we are better with him than without behind the plate, every metric says so from winning percentage to pitching staff ERA to runs scored per game, in every aspect – but if Yainer makes it easy for 73 year old, old school managers to sit him when he is swinging at stuff that he couldn’t hit with a pole vault no matter how much damage he does to pitches in the zone. You, me, we recognize, hey young guy, has to adjust, but has all the ability in the world to do so, the old school just sees red.

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    • On the plus side, Maldy has backed up his “talk” with two of his better games. Still, if Dusty sits Yainer because he swings at balls he shouldn’t – he sure does not sit Maldy when he swings and misses at balls that he should hit (83% of the time).

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    • The very important thing you point out is that a low BABIP should not immediately be assumed to mean bad luck. Guys can’t control what happens after they hit it, but they can control the trajectory and which pitch they hit into play. If a guy has a really high LD% but a really low OBP it’s probably a stretch of bad luck. If it’s pop-flies and weak grounders that’s on the hitter.

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    • Reality is that Diaz is going to sit far more than he should once Abreu and Brantley are on the roster. He’s certainly not going to catch much. Chas and his .900 plus OPS will likely sit too from time to time. When Brantley plays left, we’re going to get less D and less slugging. And don’t forget, Frenchy is our centerfielder when Verlander is on the hill regardless of whose idea it is. Simple fact is that we should all be resigned to the reality of the manager not playing his nine best guys at the same time. And that might well send us home early.

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  41. The Angels called up a young player they drafted in July to play 1B for them over the weekend. Last night, on Trout’s return to the Angels and in the midst of a Giolito stellar pitching performance, the young man committed a two-out fielding error that allowed three unearned runs to score and the Angels lost a 3-1 lead and the game, 4-3.
    The Angels, Oh, my word!

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    • There was no confrontation. It was about the most polite ‘”FU Alex” I’ve ever heard. Like when we play poker with our buddies. Cora was arguing with the ump and Verlander was walking by.

      That guy calls (and called) a good game, except for when he initially called Tucker out at home until he remembered it was a tag play. Cora was ready to get tossed last night. Verlander was simply telling Cora to go sit down in baseball speak.

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  43. Long time lurker, first time poster.

    There is some talk of Brantley joining the team in Detroit. I think that will be good for the team because of his “presence” more than anything. The corresponding roster move shouldn’t be too painful unless your last name is Julks. There is also some chatter about the impending return of Abreu. I think that Abreu will “need” a rehab assignment and will not be activated prior to Sept 1st when rosters can be expanded. The issue is Singleton. He can’t be optioned and I think the Astros want to hold onto him for insurance given the lack of 1B prospects.

    This series has been a fun one! Rangers have a day off but would sure be nice to pull into a 1st place tie tonight.

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    • Good thoughts. Brown has a dilemma for sure with the Abreu and Brantley injuries. I suspect the initial plan was to add pitching in September, but if they need Singleton as an insurance policy that definitely means more innings for the already taxed bullpen.

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    • Right, Singleton has to be DFA’d, if he continues to hit the way he is he might get through without being claimed, and go back to Sugarland, or he may opt free agency. I don’t think the Astros plan on losing him right at this moment, as Abreu was activated today and Singleton is still around. Dubon’s flexibility probably makes that happen. With Yordan likely unavailable it looks like the bench tonight is Dubon/Singleton/Julks.

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  44. Abreu activated, Hensley sent down.

    Lineup is out.

    Abreu-Pena-Meyers-Maldy back to back to back to back.

    It could be a long night for the offense.

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  47. Someone try to convince me that it’s better to get a couple of more outs from your starter and give up the two obvious runs that were getting ready to score.

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    • Never have been impressed by Graveman. But shouldn’t have been at this point anyway since the offense after the 3rd has been down right offensive. Why Dubon was batting for Meyers, I’ll never know. Another lost opportunity.

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      • Yeah. I never was either, Z. I cringe every time he comes to the mound. Leading the team in walks. Jake couldn’t have looked a lot worse than Frenchy in that AB. But there’s a LOT of decisions by D******* Baker I will never understand.

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  50. Not going to win many games with 14 strikeouts. I’ve gotta admit that our $20,000,000/year man only accounted for one of them this time. Only when it was really clutch in the 10th did he wave at garbage out of the zone like a f*** rookie. No wonder his spine is messed up. Swinging at that kinda cheese will mess you up.
    Plenty of failure to go around, though. Not the least of which is our guy Graveman. He has really been a disappointment. Just like he was before.

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