Might as well.
Also might as well start scouting the top pick in 2027.
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Itās funny how my feelings on the draft lottery have changed this season.
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Heāll fit right back in.
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Remember when we speculated heād bounce for a giant deal of he dominates this season?
Not gonna be an issue.
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Now Iām afraid heāll hang around for the second year.
Said the same about Walker a year ago, right?
True enough, but at least Walker had a prior record of success in MLB and wasnāt facing a large cultural shift.
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Many seasons of eating at the ballpark will really give you a solid foundation, letās face it.
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Imai is just a blip on the walk screen. Sugar Land pitchers walked 26 Dukes over the last 2 games. To be fair, one of the games went 10 innings.
Exactly. We suddenly have an organizational problem regarding walks. I think I have seen a few of you rule out the new strikezone as the issue but it has to be playing a large partā¦has toā¦timing canāt be a coincidence. Regardless, the organization must pinpoint the problem and figure out how to adapt.
Itās gotta be ABS somehow*, just in a way that (a) the Astros are particularly susceptible to and (b) doesnāt necessarily show at the level of the individual pitch. I am not smart enough to figure out why the effect hits some teams harder than others or why it means the Astros are suddenly missing the plate by a mile. I think that may come across as sarcastic but I genuinely do think ABS must be part of the answer, itās just hard to see exactly.
*unless itās something like MLB messing with the ball again, intentionally or by accident
I would be willing to believe that ABS had an outsized effect on the Astros if they were still a āhigh-spin, fastballs at the top of the zoneā kind of staff. But I donāt really think they are now, and they seem to miss literally all over the place. As much as it pains me to say this, I think the more likely explanation is that, for the most part, the pitchers (the available ones, anyway) just arenāt very good.