First of all, don't remember any of this exchange. Secondly, are you actually defending Porter and his bullpen management? Frankly, I think that got him fired more than any of his other shenanigans.... AL managers basically have two main jobs, bullpen management and lineup construction (and the former is FAR more improtant/impactful). Lawless actually did have better results despite the "same" arms Porter had access to. Lastly, Hinch still hasn't overused anybody (hasn't underused anybody), hasn't been "robotic", and up till this last week was pulling every right string... if this is regression, so be it.
Hitting is our biggest problem. It too hit or miss. Altuve is starting to appear like a good "hacker" instead of a good hitter. He goes up there hacking and its been successful, but now that he is in a slump, his hacking, swinging at everything approach is not helping. When Altuve is not hitting he's not getting on base to start the running game and his hacking behind Springer's current hot bat hinders Springer's running game. This offense is just a mess right now. Correa looks like a good, polished hitter but he can't do it all by himself. The lineup mainly has a bunch of streaky hitters and not enough consistent hitters.
Mann. That is rough. Gotta find another bat..whoever mentioned Stephen Vogt the other day, that'd be great. How's Colin Moran been doing..?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vince Velasquez:3rd pitcher in Astros history to toss 5-or-more scoreless innings in his MLB debut: (Cosart - 2013, Carlos Hernandez - 2001)</p>— Chris Peixoto (@cp_astros) <a href="https://twitter.com/cp_astros/status/608820984590790657">June 11, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Nice... Oswalt probably would have been there too, but he made his debut as a reliever (then Hunsicker, Dierker, etc. saw his "stuff" and said WTF did we do that for!)
