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.