Fishslingers @ AL West Champion Astros, September 25, 2024

Oh, dear: my eyes! Sparks over the top!

He would not be on the hook for the loss, will he? I guess the Astros need to score 2 to make that the caseā€¦

Edited to add: nevermind.

Man. You hate to see this for anybody.

4 errors charged (should be 5 for the fielders choice at home). But 4 in a game is an Astros single player record in team history. Yikes.

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Or still drunk?

Fitting. Shay pops up to end it. 8-1 Mariners is your final.

Games played by position (with error count) at Sugar Land this year:

1B

  • Whitcomb 6 (1 error)
  • Kissinger 12 (1 error)
  • Dezenzo 10 (1 error)

2B

  • Whitcomb 18 (2 errors)
  • Kissinger 4 (0 errors)

3B

  • Whitcomb 31 (3 errors)
  • Kissinger 16 (2 errors)
  • Dezenzo 12 (1 error)

SS

  • Whitcomb 30 (3 errors)
  • Kessinger 27 (3 errors)
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There are many more things that determine whether a player is a good fielder, than just errors.

Whitcomb just looks bad and doesnā€™t make plays.

We have been spoiled with Bregman, but this is extremely low end.

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Of course. But baseball reference tracks things like games and errors; it does not provide fielding videos.

I posted in response to a question of whether Kessinger could play 3B. Games played shows some combination of (a) the orgā€™s expectation that a player can adequately man the position, and (b) the orgā€™s patience as he begins to show that he canā€™t. I just posted the numbers.

Well ā€” I had also previously reminded us that Brown says he will end up in the OF.

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