re: DAT 7/7: LAA (Suarez) at HOU (Urquidy) 1:10pm ATTSW

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Ausmus, on the play at the plate: "It certainly didn’t look like a clean play... It looked like Marisnick took a step to the left and bowled into him with his arm up. The call was right. MLB should probably take a look at it and consider some type of suspension quite frankly.”

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frick Ausmus. Dude isn't one of us anymore.

I guess you mean as far as roster spots go?

Diaz back, White DFA’d

Correa back, Straw sent down

Smith back, Guduan?

Peacock back, Urquidy down

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Ludlow says Smith will be back first series after the break

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Thursday

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while Peacock should get one rehab appearance before perhaps starting a week from Monday.

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July 15 @ Angels

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Diaz is on track to return during the next homestand while Correa should be back by the end of it.

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July 19th-July 24th vs Rangers and Athletics

Doubt it. I wouldn't count on much from Correa and Ted is gonna likely be traded

I want a cheap move for cashner before making the real move at the end of the month. IF peacock comes back cashner can fill out the back end till the real move+fill in if needed in the back end. Miley already has surpassed his innings from last year and no guarantee that peacock comes back 100%

I can’t take much more of the revolving door with round rock

Round Rock is out of promising potential answers. Luhnow better be thinking multiple veteran arms in trades.

The trade deadline is going to be interesting with no waiver deadline for fringe teams to further assess what they want to do. We're 3 weeks out right now and there's a lot of teams that are right on the cusp of a potential playoff spot.

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AL Standings:

Yankees 6.5 game lead on Tampa
Twins 5.5 game lead on Cleveland
Astros 7.5 game lead on Oakland

Wild Card

Tampa with .5 game lead on Cleveland

Oakland, Boston and Arlington within 3 games of the 2nd wild card spot. LAA and White Sox are hovering near .500 and then you get the drop off of total non contenders behind them. SEA, TOR, KC, DET, BAL

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NL Standings:

Braves 6 game lead on Washington
Dodgers 13.5 game lead on Arizona

And in the tightest divisional race the Cubs have a .5 game lead over Milwaukee with St. Louis 2 behind, Pittsburgh 2.5 behind and last place Cincinnati 4.5 behind.


All of that makes for a really bunched up Wild Card race

Washington with a .5 game lead over Philly

Brewers are .5 game behind Philly and the 6th team down the list is Pittsburgh at 2.5 games behind.

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We thought Washington or Cleveland might tear down but they're in the heat of competing. White Sox are staying around .500 and won't sell off much.

I don't post much in the DAT, but I watch almost every Stros game, and read most of these threads, and I just wanted to say how unbelievably impressed I am with Alvarez. The kid looks so effortless in his swing, and appears to have his head on straight at the plate, he seems just as happy ripping line drive base hits as he his 400+ foot bombs. I really hope he stays healthy and pans out...

Obviously if he slides feet first this is a non-issue

But given that he committed to head first, he and Lucroy ended up in a game of chicken with both wanting/needing to keep both sides of the plate as an option.

You can see Marisnick plant his left foot push to the inside at the last minute, slowing his forward progress as best he could. He doesn't explode through the contact.

At that point, it's just laws of physics. I'm more disappointed that Lucroy's plans after the game were affected than I am at Marisnick being ruled out.

As a daily follower of the Astros, you shouldn't be surprised at bad baserunning decisions in ALL forms.

What happened?

He made some comments obviously?