davy jones

I too have been watching these games. You’re very astute to see that Teddy is just as good as............ Hahahahahahahaha, I couldn’t even type that without laughing.

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But the offense has looked like shite.

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Team is hitting .313/.370/.543 over the last month with an MLB leading 143 wRC+, second best over that stretch is 119.

They had a couple of bad games. That's baseball. Still the best offense in baseball by far.

That's what his Wikipedia page indicates. Unsurprisingly he goes by Rico.

Deadline acquisitions don't change the WS projections much. Especially for a team that has nearly locked up a division. If you're the type of person who doesn't buy into projection systems then this is probably meaningless to you. But the Astros FO certainly has their own internal projection systems that they look at for all manners of things.

Projections very from site to site, but they all seem to have the Dodgers making the greatest improvement. Going from something like 24% to 26%. Not insignificant, but not the colossal change many view it as. I'm disappointed no larger additions were made, but I think the doom and gloom routine is overblown.

Agree. If Morton can get you somewhere between 4 & 5 innings and Peacock can get you to the 7th, then Harris/Devo/Giles close it out. That feels like a playoff recipe.

But I do think Morton profiles as a better reliever than Fiers. May end up depending on how Fiers and Morton look in September.

Assuming everyone is healthy I think the playoff rotation is Keuchel, McCullers, McHugh, Morton. Morton seems like an excellent 4th starter for the playoffs. Just limit him to twice through the lineup. He's been money early in games. Fiers has been great and if he continues it the next two months that would change things. But I'm not sold and prefer a limited use Morton as of now.

And a playoff pen is probably Giles, Harris, Devo, Peacock, Gregerson, Martes. If Martes can get his control in check (a big if) he's got the stuff to be a dominant reliever in Oct. Hoyt is a wild card for me. He's got to figure a lot out, maybe he's tipping pitches. But I don't understand how he can have such great K% and BB% and still be so terrible. I really wanted one more good arm, but alas.

Tony Clark is spectacularly bad at his job. Marvin Miller must be rolling in his grave. I can't fathom how the players association thought a former player would be a better choice than a labor lawyer.

Fangraphs has the Astros as the 5th worst base running team in MLB this year. I believe they were the worst at some point earlier.

They are an extremely aggressive team in terms of attempting to take extra bases and have not been a great stolen base team. It works out sometimes, but has been a net negative over the course of the year.

It's also worth noting that the issue with the physical doesn't have to mean an injury. Reports were that Brady Aiken had a abnormally small (but not injured) UCL that could increase the likelihood of a tear or reduce the probability of full return after a UCL repair. Also RA Dickey had his bonus reduced from something like $1 million to 75,000 when his physical revealed the absence of a UCL.

I'm a big fan of the "why he will make it / why he won't make it" format.