George is the 2024 Astros fans’ spirit animal.
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Abreu has pitched very well this year. 2.97 era, 49ks in 33 innings. He’s at least got to be your 8th inning guy moving forward.
Absolutely 8th inning. Just no reason to replace Hader because of today’s game.
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Hader 9th, Abreu 8th, Montero/Scott/Martinez 6th/7th. Pressly only if the game is 5+ runs in either direction.
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Replacing Hader would be nuts
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Ask Joe Espada.
Agree, I’m just mad that the team lost a very winnable game that they needed since both Texas and Seattle won today. Such a frustrating team to watch after what we all have been spoiled with the last 7 years.
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It should be Montero-Abreu-Hader in the 7th, 8th and 9th innings with Martinez next up if anyone isn’t available. Pressly should be used in low leverage situations until proven otherwise.
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I never thought Joe Espada would demonstrate a complete lack of in-game feel and ability to make adjustments based on player performance. Especially not after the way he managed the ninth inning of game 5 in the ALCS after Baker got ejected. I was wrong.
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I was right with you on Espada. Plus, I’m the unstable genius that thought Tucker would not make it in MLB.
Tucker is one of my few wins after he was bad early. Espada? Big fucking L
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Man, I hate being right.
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Whether Espada is an analytics, or feel kind of manager, both interpretive frameworks are showing that Pressly should not pitch in high leverage situations right now. Pressly’s ERA and general performance has trended down for nearly a solid year. Month by month he has been worse from July last year to now.
I would say that Joe Espada’s inexperience is showing, but maybe he’s not cut out for the big job. Not everybody is.
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Perhaps it’s inexperience, but it’s not that hard for Joe Espada to look at Ryan Pressly’s underlying numbers and metrics and realize he is not one of the Astros’ three best relievers right now. It’s perplexing because he doesn’t do this with every player. He’s basically benched Chas McCormick based on what he’s done over a 30-game sample size this season, but it took him forever to stop playing Jose Abreu nearly everyday before he was demoted, and he has yet to move Pressly into a low-leverage relief role.
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Why sweep a series when you can just phone it in the last game? And for fuck’s sake, can someone please kick Pressly in the testicles (repeatedly)?
I’m tellin ya, conga line
Espada too
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This is the hell of it…they didn’t just phone it in. They absolutely played well enough to win, and that game was there for the taking, they just had to not set their dicks on fire. Pressly came in with a blowtorch.
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Yesterday was an exquisite example of shitting the bed. It amazes me how well this team has mastered that habit. My point was more general about the Astros season long disinterest in sweeping a team.