The one person who I really do miss and I think the team misses is Strom. I feel like he could have got Abreu, Pressly and Hader to pull their collective heads’ out of their asses.
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Brown? Why would Crane fire his scouting director?
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Preach.
Houston’s coldest new club is “Horseshit Show Redux”. It’s got everything: 1 1st inning run in a JV start, 0-6 with RISP, SP not making it through 5 innings, bullpen meltdowns, questionable decisions and faux outrage by a manager who has to be pounding Ambien to sleep at night…what’s that in the corner? Jon Singleton making the final out with the tying runs on base?
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The Astros have scored 15 runs in the six games on this road trip. In the Braves series, they scored seven. 22 runs over 9 games is embarrassing and not going to win you many games.
The job of the General Manager encompasses more than scouting. Brown deserves some blame for this season’s roster construction, just like Espada will take the fall for the players underperforming. Espada gets fired first, but if the Astros continue to be this bad after a new manager takes the reins, Brown’s seat will get very warm.
I’m just poking fun re: Brown’s apparent lack of authority on major league transactions. I know he’s more than a scouting director but there’s no denying he has less autonomy than his predecessors.
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Ah. I didn’t catch your sarcasm. My bad.
No worries. I’m in a mood.
I wonder if there’s any precedent for a Houston owner running off his successful GM and becoming more involved in baseball decisions
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Any Astros’ fan is, myself included. It’s one thing if I expected them to be bad in a rebuilding year. This was not supposed to be a god awful team.
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Astros lose 3-1. They were swept in a three-game series in Chicago and are 7-19. It is the second-worst record after 26 games in franchise history. The 1969 team started 6-20.
via https://twitter.com/matthewkawahara/status/1783602870828282223
Ouch.
Those teams were equally schizophrenic about scoring runs, but at least they were trotting out some semi-competent pitching. Now we’re running out AAA starters because the major-leaguers (Framber, Garcia, Urquidy, McCullers) are injured, half of last year’s bullpen is gone, and the half that we kept is sucking. That kind of pitching can’t compensate for the days that the offense takes off.
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They did manage to have their best season up to that point in 1969 finishing at 81-81.
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It’s kind of like a reboot of “Jerry Jones, The Early Years”.
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The Astros have taken 16 fucking days off offensively in 26 games. 15 of 19 losses where they have scored less than three runs, and one of the wins against the Rangers was a 3-1 win with Blanco starting.
Spare me the stat about the team leading MLB in hits as of a few days ago. They need to start getting the job done with RISP.
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As a friend joked to me, the 2024 Astros are acting like an experiment to rebuild Lidge-Dotel-Wagner as Lidge-Lidge-Lidge.
I’ve always said the worst thing for a sports fan is a bad baseball team, because you get reminded of it every day. But there is one thing worse, it’s a bad baseball team that was supposed to be good.
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I’m struggling to think of any team, in any sport, who made it that far in the playoffs and then crashed and burned like this without major pieces leaving the team.
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