DAT 8/21: Astros (Peacock) @ Mariners (Leake), 9:10 CDT

We no good no moe

THe panic is real. I really don’t want to get swept by Boston while I’m there.....

Yeah, these guys all have off season plans, and have had them prior to the start of the season.

Do yourself a favor and look at all the similarities b/w Boston this year and the Astros last year while you're there.

Then look in the Boston dugout at who's managing them. Obviously, that's not all of it. A lot has to do with desire and motivation, but calling a spade a spade, I'm a Cora guy over Hinch.

And Boston may go through what the Astros are experiencing now next year. And Price might say before the start of next year, "We're not the Astros."

But I'd still take Cora year in and year out.

The only difference in Boston and Houston is they signed JD martinez. Period.

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Hearing #Astros are calling up Framber Valdez

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From the AstrosFuture twitter acct. He's been right on other call ups this year I believe.

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hopefully it rubs off on Correa's bat...

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Correa is fricking toast, we might have seen his last great play last year before the injury

I made a comment toward the end of last night’s thread where I said poor analytics are playing a part in this team’s failure right now. Wahoo correctly assumed I was talking about poor positioning.

Not once but twice last night segura guided a ball right where Correa would normally play on a right handed batter. Hinch had him playing a few steps left of second base.

Left handed hitter Gamel crushed a ball to just right of centerfield that hit right in front of the warning track and bounced over the wall for a ground rule double. Tony kemp was playing in the left center field gap so far away he was still 15 feet away from the ball when it bounced.

Now I get shifting for players who have tendencies to hit towards certain spots. But you can’t pitch away from the shift and expect it to be effective. If you want gamel to hit the ball to left or left center you can’t throw a middle to in fastball. If you want segura to hit it up the middle you can’t throw him inside or over the middle of the plate for him to guide it through the vacated spot the shortstop would normally be playing.

These hits against the shifts are putting a lot of pressure on our defense, a lot of pressure on our pitching staff by creating high leverage situations and high pitch count numbers, all eventually leading to momentum changing innings and losses.

I thought the same thing