There’s a service that several pro franchisees in different sports subscribe to that does exactly that: calculates risk of injury and prescribes a load management program.
Don’t know if Astros use that one or not.
But I do not believe at all that Dusty is in charge of those decisions.
Sorry if there’s a paywall
I’m sure Dusty has bought into the idea. He seems happy to leave a lot of the decision making to the collective brain machine robot computer hidden deep in the bowels of Minute Maid Park.
FWIW on Diaz:
Astros radio today elaborated on this – said Dusty says he often wakes up in the middle of the night with lineup ideas, and keeps a notepad by his bed so he can write them down. Said his wife got him a pen with a light attached so he wouldn’t wake her up turning on the light in the middle of the night.
Somebody get Dusty a case of Ambien.
I keep a notepad by my bed. Sometimes you have revelations during sleep.
Well that is the most comforting thing I’ve seen in a while.
This also explains why he falls asleep in the dugout.
meanwhile back at the ranch.