2024 Astros Minor League Thread

Is ABQ’s offense supposed to be trash this season? That’s a very tough environment to pitch in.

 

Welcome to Houston, AJ.

 

Would be surprised if he’s not up after 3 quality starts, desperate times

 

The Astros rapid ascent of Blubaugh certainly suggests they want him contributing soon.

 

Looking at Savant, I’m even more impressed. Will be interesting to see his AAA Stuff+ if that becomes available as he doesn’t generate a lot of raw spin. Maybe a gyro guy?


In this start he had a 32% CSW and generated 17! whiffs. He had four separate pitches he threw at least ten times and which had a CSW above 30% - 4S Fastball, cutter, curve, and change. His fastball generated 6 whiffs on 11 swings.

That was a dominant performance. Maybe they should be aggressive with him.

 

Ol blue balls. Yes, welcome to Houston.

 

Good to see!!

 

I wonder if the Astros would consider trading some of these prospects for starting pitching. As a fan I hate losing prospects but more often than not they don’t pan out. For example I hated trading Valdez to the Red Sox but now he’s pedestrian. I would have hated losing Whitley or Hunter Brown in the past but now how much value have they lost.

Maybe the Astros should consider trading prospects this year to win again especially if there are no plans to backfill Bregman or Tucker.

 

No teams are selling pitching right now. The Astros can either get by with what they have or massively overpay to convince a team to trade them a pitcher.

 

4 ER and 4 K for Treadwell in 2.1 IP

 

Loperfido hit another one. Dude has 7 HR in 11 games played.

 

I want to believe but the average of .289 and the Ks keep me cautious

 

Ok I’ve been the voice of temperance here but got dang 8 HR in 12 games is ridiculous and at some point a guy’s production is so magnificent that strikeout rate be damned you gotta call him up.