Yes, if he struggles for 3-4 more weeks then you make changes. This discussion started with a guy wondering if they were about to move him back to AAA. That’s not how Luhnow works, he isn’t reactionary If Bregman had struggled for 4-5 weeks he might have gone back also, but he didn’t Some people (not you) don’t understand baseball, you can’t base anything on one week. Altuve is as good and as consistent as anyone, and he has plenty of one week stretches where he is terrible, they ALL do
Rockies beat the Mariners on a walk off home run by Trevor Story. That takes out some of the sting from today's loss.
Bregman made his debut July 25, '16, Stros were coming off a playoff berth and were 3.5 games back of the best record in the AL, 2.5 back in the Division, and 1.5 games out of the WC. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?month=7&day=24&year=2016 I wish I knew where to find those splits. That would be intriguing.
It certainly does. Nice to maintain a decent size lead in the Division. Very tough week for Mariners. I think the Mariners and A's being better may help the Astros down the stretch. It feels like they need to be pushed and the Mariners/A's may be just good enough to push us but not threaten us if that makes sense. Those games against Seattle and Oakland in August/Sept could be a great chance for the Astros to get into October form. Yankees also lost today, which I like to see. Would rather see them get the Wildcard than Boston, even though Boston is a better team right now. Feel like the Yankees have extra motivation to beat us after '15 and '17 and concerned about our 2-5 record against them this year. We've struggled against some of their very mediocre pitching. Feel like the Astros have more confidence playing Boston...
The Mariners are a concern, but not too much. Astros control their fate much more easily with them vs "others" because of the incoming H2H. The Yankees and, especially, Sox are far more worrisome. We finished playing them and they're better than SEA.
Stros should take advantage. The 4-game split vs them sucked. The Sox are making our season seem worse than it is.
Except they were in the middle of a pennant chase and just barely out of the Wild Card at that point. Tucker started off at AAA relatively slowly and then he caught on fire. I expect, given the chance, he'll get his bat up to speed. I won't disparage anyone for struggling defensively in LF at MMP right away. It's got to be an adjustment with the Crawford Boxes and the strange angles. No, he's not here for his glove but I think they'll give him a chance to figure it out. You don't give up on your just called up top prospect after a week. Doesn't take a brilliant GM mind like Luhnow to know that. Baseball can't be measured in such tiny sample sizes.
All of his 2+ innings? And balls weren't hit hard? If they struggle against mediocre pitching, and they struggle against elite pitching... who exactly are they scoring all these runs against then? Its comical to see how down people are on this team after a week of more than 1 loss... god forbid they actually have a losing month this season, whereby I'll expect true anarchy.
