The problem was much of the frontline pitching was LHP, and even Altuve was moving back to the bag. The only alternative was run on first movement, which he did once when he was ruled safe finally after a replay.
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A base runner does not “wait on a perfect pitch” to steal. He either runs or does not.
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Altuve, Correa, Bregman, Tucker, Siri/McCormick, and Gurriel all could have stolen some bases. I don’t really care how many they have had during the season. They all had the ability to run on the catcher and make things difficult for Atlanta on the base paths. Huge missed opportunities to get things started in several innings.
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Neither does Dusty.
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I felt during game 3 they should have just looked to go station to station.
Those conditions were really bad.
Instead fly ball after fly ball.
Of course have no idea what their actual gameplan was.
Were not selective or disciplined in Game Three. Bailed Anderson out repeatedly.
Speaking of Dusty, unless Cabrera has already posted here somewhere. I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad.
Dusty is fine as manager.
There are bigger fish to fry.
How do the Astros fill shortstop?
( prediction not hope)
A) resign Correa
B) give the job to Pena
C) sign a cheaper/shorter term free agent.
D) trade for someone else.
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I was actually trying to post this:
I was dead wrong (confidently and repeatedly) about whether they’d bring Dusty back, but quotes like that make me glad they did it.
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It’ll most likely be C.
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E) Bregman to SS, Diaz/Marwin (or other) platoon 3rd
Think if/when they are unsuccessful in resigning Correa, the job will be Pena’s to lose. Better hope Bregman returns to 2019 form.
Any idea who that might be? If Bregman can get truly healthy, he’s not too old to move to SS and Diaz can start at third. I’m not advocating that, but as a worse case scenario, it’s not bad.
This year “cheaper” would be anyone not married to Daniella Correa.
But no I don’t have a guess.
They would be shaded toward the Andrelton Simmons side of the pay scale if they think they’ve got a viable guy in the organization.
From MLB.com:
Carlos Correa (27, 6.6 WAR)
Trevor Story (29, 6.0)
Corey Seager (28, 5.5)
Javier Báez (29, 3.6)
José Iglesias (32, 2.6)
Freddy Galvis (32, 2.0)
Andrelton Simmons (32, 0.0)
Pete Kozma (34, 0.0)
Deven Marrero (31, 0.0)
Andrew Romine (36, -0.3)
You know what I will take? That the bats slump in stages. But from what I saw with my untrained eyes this year was that the entire team goes through these slumps as a group. I’m sure someone can go through the numbers and prove me wrong, but sure as heck felt that way
A couple of non-slumping bats during the series against the Braves and we may have had a different outcome.
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