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My call up date for Brown would be Tuesday the 23rd of August. Start of a homestand against the Twins. He could get about 8 appearances and 20...
Sure- you’d end up grinding out your pitchers bc you’d have too many bullpen guys going too many days in a row. As a one or 1.5 month experiment...
Offense this would be my ideal: Maldonado, Bell, Altuve, Peña, Bregman, Brantley, Meyers, Tucker, Yordan. 5 Bench- Lee, Y. Diaz (Emergency...
I’d probably go Odo if he’s still in the rotation as a chance of pace, But I’d be fine with Javier too as two hard throwing young dudes that you...
I really want to see Brown working out of the bullpen 3 innings at a time one every 4 or 5 days in Houston starting around August 15 or so.
Agreed. That’s why I said not sure what the point would be. Someone brought it up upthread and I can’t think of any conceivable reason to do it,...
Generally agree. How about at Yankee stadium though with the short porch? If he could play RF anywhere that would be most likely. Still not sure...
If you want to add more offense to baseball (and I think it needs it) while also speeding up the game we could go ahead and add in pitching coach...
That was always my optimistic scenario- Meyers up and pain free and not injured after the all star break- and give him 3 weeks in CF at the MLB...
Bring on the robot umps. Initial reports from AAA seem to be good. I honestly can’t believe there is anyone not in favor of this, the pitch clock...
****. I’m an idiot and didn’t read that right. The general point is that if you believe the stros are a mortal lock for the playoffs at the...
If this is true (and it might be) it could be interesting to see what the Astros could get trading some of their surplus starting pitching. A guy...
If you have 6 league average type position players in the minor leagues at any one point in time that’s plenty good enough as far as a farm system...
Last year we were DFL as well. Umps hate us. This shouldn’t be the case 2 years in a row. Which team gets screwed by and ump should be random,...
I don’t think he’s saying those guys can’t start a playoff game, just that they aren’t likely to be considered superior to whoever they are...
Swinging more early in the count?
Your are also ignoring Chaz clear defensive advantage over Brantley, and Brantley can later PH against a RHP (even for Maldy) which is highly...
I wasn’t saying your 10% was wrong (though you’d underestimated it by 33%, I was saying that 10% is a big difference in baseball. That’s 2...
I think Chris would be my #4 choice behind Contreras, Bell and Nelson Cruz.
Is this who you think they should target or who you think they’d be likely to target? Give me Nelson Cruz if he’s basically free (I doubt the...
