Former Astros Tracking Thread

it made me sick watching lowrie go. we could use what he is bringing to oakland. Hope he gets back spasms since he is no longer a stro.

 

Lowrie's been awful in Oakland this year, save for a 4-hit game the other night. Prior to that, his OPS was .521.

He'd be more of the same, frankly.

 

he had some clutch hits against the royals, yankees and seattle that weren't the 4 hit game. the same would be good because he had a knack for breaking you out of a RISPie drought.

 

Delino DeShields Jr.--last year's poster child for the "Luhnow lets everyone go and they're all awesome" camp--is at .242/.333/.333 with 2 SB and 3 CS.

I think he'll at least be better than this, but last year may well have been the aberration

 

Chris Carter showed up in April this year, has a 1.050 OPS with 15 RBIs, BA of .295. As he usually doesn't bother showing up until June or July, maybe this will be a stellar year. He does have 20 K's already, in true form. But Tyler White already has 22, so we'll see if he eventually becomes a step up from Khris.

 

Carter has cut down on the frequency he K's so far. I think we all knew Carter could have a good year for somebody, but we also understood it wasn't a risk we could take with White & Reed knocking on the door.

 

He was hitting over .300 during our series. Small sample sizes swing the stats so much right now.

 

He's not a long term MLB starter. No true position (bad CF with a minus arm) and bat not good enough to warrant keeping him in the lineup.

 

unless they're playing the astros, the rangers look meh.

 

Agree with both of you. Pointing both at criticism of our players when we give others the sample excuse, and at DDJ's possibility of staying as a 5th OF for his career (for those who were really unhappy about it when he did well last year).

 

Matt Albers has a 30 appearance scoreless streak. It's a MLB record.

 

VV had a quality start against a very good team

 

Santana, Villar, Deshields and JD Martinez combined to go 0-14 tonight

 

If we are using quality starts as a stat, Fister had a quality start last night.

 

The Nats are a very good team because they've given up the fewest runs in baseball, not because they have a great offense.

 

Yall would have much better conversations if you responded to each other instead of the other guy.

 

Look at the whip in last night game from vv and fister and then tell me who pitched better.

 

Same goes for the yankees, brewers, red sox and mariners.

 

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No love for Josh Zeid?