8/30/24 KC@Astros

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If you want to learn the mechanics of hitting. Do not watch Altuve. It often makes no sense how good he is

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It does not

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Reminds me of another Astros legend

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The jump throw from Pena tonight was a work of art.

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Interesting tidbit from Chandler Rome’s writeup in The Athletic of tonight’s game:

“Nothing about this is standard, even if Houston’s starters are making it seem so. Since 2019, the Astros pitching staff has taken 17 no-hitters through seven innings. No other major-league team has more than eight.”

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Gerald Young?

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The GOAT

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https://x.com/MLB/status/1829670595484930189

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The Astros pitching philosophy in a nutshell:

  1. Only throw your best pitches
  2. Only throw them to the hitters’ worst zones

Good recipe for hit prevention.

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Clearly they’re cheating.

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I’ve said this before but I think the Astros greatest strength now is that they can get anybody to buy in because they have the results to back it up. It sounds like an obvious and simple thing, obviously it’s more involved than we usually talk about, but I think most teams probably try to do this to some degree but it requires the player to trust it’s the right thing. If the player doesn’t buy in, or fully trust the data or what a coach is telling them, it doesn’t work. The Astros don’t have this problem because everyone knows if you do what they tell you, success will follow.

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Another great win last night. Had to feel good for both Pena and Hader to get picked up by the team.

I was hoping for at least a split coming into this series so if we can win either of the next two games it will be gravy to me.

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I give a lot of credit to JV for this. He was the first big name to come in, buy in, and see the results that guys like McHugh had found. That gave a ton of credibility to the organization.

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Hadn’t thought about it in those terms, but that’s absolutely spot-on.

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He was not shy about giving the org credit either.

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Unlike another big name pitcher who now plays elsewhere

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Charlie Morton is probably the best example of this. When he got here they told him “yeah, you throw five pitches, but three of them suck. From now on, you throw the 4-seam up and the curve ball down. You’re basically a 2-pitch pitcher now”. And it worked.

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McHugh was patient zero, Morton showed it wasn’t a fluke and JV took it mainstream

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