How Astros SWITCH-UP now NECESSARY to hold what’s left of Houston’s lead!
Welcome into Stone Cold Stros. I’m Brandon Strange alongside Charlie Palo and Josh Jordan. You can follow them on X at Palo and Josh Jordan 975. And in between episodes here, you can read their blogs covering the Astros, Texans, and Rockets over on sportsmap.com. On today’s episode, Houston grabs a muchneeded series win from the fish, but their next series is against a real flounder in New York. JP3 is making his presence felt back from the IIL. And mama mia, so did Aragetti, but not in the way Joe Spot had hoped. Before all that, show your support for the show. Hit like on the video, subscribe to the channel, click the bell for notifications. We’re also on all your favorite podcast apps. One more shameless plug. The three of us are relaunching our Texans podcast, Texans on Tap. First episode drops next week, so keep an eye out for that if you’re a Texans fan. Charlie Josh, welcome in. Uh teased in the open. Houston handles business money Tuesday with the offense looking more like they had hoped it would post trades. Uh Wednesday they jumped out to another lead, but it was short-lived as Spencer Argetti’s meatballs put them in a hole that the offense couldn’t dig their way out of, although they had plenty of opportunities to uh but a series win is a series win. What were your takeaways from Miami? Well, you hit the summary. When you take the first two games of a series, have a chance for a sweep and you feel like you left some money on the table. But while the Marlins are anonymous and I think it’s been a lot of smoke and mirrors when you look at their lineup and frankly their pitching staff, but look, they had the second best record in the National League over more than a month and a half’s time. A better record than the Astros over that time before this series began. So for the Astros to go in there and and get two out of three, it’s productive. I mean, Aragetti’s return nightmarish, but it’s his first time out, so not too much to be read into it. But he needs to show improvement the second time out. Frankly, it was kind of surprising though. Only gave up three runs in that first inning, torched for six hits and one hard hit ball after another. It’s not like they were all bloops and then he’s left in to basically get flogged to eat up some innings and give up 11 hits and still not get through five. Which goes to what is the the biggest concern right now with the Astros? What’s the rotation after Hunter? I mean, they got a a gift from the God start from Jason Alexander. Uh Colt Gordon probably gets the last start of the Yankee series. He’s been lousy now for for about a month’s time. And and Aragetti’s not there yet. Christian Javier continues to have terrible command of the strike zone in his in his minor league starts, but he’s probably going to make a major league start next week. So, I think there’s a a good chance when you look at the schedules the Mariners catch the Astros by this time next week, but then you’ll have a reset in about 40 games of a a sprint toward the finish. And if the Mariners catch and go by and finish ahead of the Astros, they’re still the wild card. And the Astros go into the weekend four and a half games ahead of the Cleveland Guardians, four and a half games ahead of the Texas Rangers. In between, they’re three games ahead of the New York Yankees, making it a big series in the Bronx this weekend. Yeah, coming into this Marlin series, the Astros had a sweep happen in five of their last eight series. A sweep in one direction or the other. almost happened again in the Marlin series, but no, they couldn’t quite come through. Had some opportunities. Dubon almost flipped one over second base late in the game, but just it didn’t feel like their day. But it was nice to see the sticks get going in the Marlin series. A lot more runs. Remember that Red Sox series, two of those games, the Astros only got one run. And a big reason for that is, man, Carlos Kareah and Sanchez have been fantastic. Gray has been crazy good. He has more home runs in his six or the same amount of home runs in his six games since rejoining the Astros as he had in June and July combined. So, I had a feeling that that home cooking, getting that change of scenery might be the deal for Carlos. And, you know, early on it it looks pretty damn good. I mean, his numbers are are crazy. He’s hitting .346 in those six games. Like I said, couple bombs, slugging uh over 500, OPS over 900. So, he’s been fantastic. And and then the other big key there is, you know, starting to get Christian Walker and Yiner Diaz. They’ve been pretty good for the last 30 days, so it’s starting to feel like this is a real thing. I don’t think they’re just getting hot. I think they’re coming around getting into form. I think that’s huge. And with Aragetti, yeah, he gave up some hard contact, gave up a lot of soft contact, got a lot of whiffs in the game. I think like 16, something like that in a in a short outing. That’s a lot. So that’s a positive sign. I think I counted right four infield hits that that Aragetti gave up possibly. I think three of them were at Koreah. Just a really weird start. Just a a really weird game all around. Astros got a lot of hits in this game. They they just weren’t able to to get the runs to go along with those hits. So overall, hey, lot better than what you saw with the Red Sox. I think these guys are are clicking a little bit. You saw Carlos lead off. Look really good in that role. And then, you know, Pena comes in the game and you move it over. I thought it was really interesting quickly that Kareah wanted to stay at third with Pñena having that off day. He did not want to go play shortstop and be bouncing back and forth. He thinks he’s seeing some positive results from the toll that his body takes from not having to play shorts stop anymore. So, I thought that was interesting. You saw Dubond in there and it sounds like Aspatada is going to continue to do that with Dubond when Pena’s out. Yeah, sucking to feeling his way along some with the lineup. Carlos Koreah does not fit the profile of a leadoff hitter. His last stolen base came in 2019. But think Eso Paradus. Yep. The job is to get on base and Kareah after 0 for four in his second Astros debut. Josh covered it. Subtract those four at bats. Nine for 22. So that’s 409. And it’s less than a week’s work, but it’s a nice week. A guy who only hit seven home runs all season until rejoining the Astros. Two of those uh already. Of course, when Jeremy Pena is in the lineup, Carlos Korea is not going to be in that leadoff spot. Uh, does he want Sanchez splitting the two righties, right? Where does he ultimately want Altuve to settle? I mean, Yordon’s a ghost at this point until he gets back to where you really ideally would structure the the Astros lineup. And as for Christian Walker and Yanner Diaz, I feel like it lacked the drama of when Ted Williams was making his run and ultimately did hit 400 84 years ago. But both Walker and Diaz left Miami with their OPS’s at in Walker’s case and just above in Diaz’s case 700, which at least is approaching mediocrity for the league. It’s terrible for guys who are hitting in the middle of the lineup, but even more so in Walker’s case than Diaz’s case, the depths from which they’ve risen, uh, it does give cause that they can be contributing players the rest of the way. Yeah, I the results from a win- loss perspective weren’t what they hoped from the road trip, but I think offensively you look at it and lend some hope to what they hoped could this lineup could be like post trades what’s been an otherwise belleaguered lineup for most of the season. And you guys pointed out obviously the highlights with, you know, Walker three home runs and six RBI and three walks on the roadie. three walkons. Just really good stuff. Cam Smith had three hits over the first two games. The last game had a couple loud outs. So, you hope maybe he’s starting to get back into the swing of things. Maybe starting to find himself a little bit. Um, I dare not dream about Yordon because of just the trajectory of this season and the amount of injuries that have befallen this team. But if somehow Alvarez could return and be a fraction of himself, this lineup is, dare I say, long with a bench that, dare I say, is deep. Yeah. And look, I mean, Cam Smith is nine for his last 74 with 24 strikeouts. That’s a 122 batting average. But this is the same guy that the lineup was in such tatters and Job Spotter was grasping at draws. Cam Smith was batting lead off. He was batting clean up. Well, with a guy who’s frankly at this point a bad offensive player, he’s hitting eighth or ninth. So, like last season, if Jake Myers was hitting eighth or ninth, guys bat eighth or ninth for a reason. So, it’s not as damaging to the Astros lineup if Cam Smith’s going to remain in the deep freeze if he’s down toward the bottom. And did I mention Jake Myers? Who knows on him? Uh, as well. Look, the Yankee series, the Astros have to win it or it’s a sucky road trip, right? They got drumed out of Boston. You take two out of three in Miami, so they’re two-4. If the Yankees, who have been just lousy, they’re 19 and 29. That’s sub 400 baseball over 48 games, right? The Astros are 9 and 16 their last 25. That’s a 100 loss pace if you do it for a whole season. But that’s half the period of time now over which the Yankees have just stunk it up. I mean, this is a monstrous series for the Yankees this weekend. is big for the Astros, but the Yankees have been bleeding for the better part of two months now. So, if the Astros, who have Frober and Hunter Brown going the first two games, not saying they have to win those two games, but it’s going to be hope for the best on Sunday, whoever is the starter. The Astros dropped the series two out of three. It’s a three and six road trip. The Red Sox have caught them. The Yankees would be closing in on them. The Mariners might have caught them. and the Astros start the week at home against those same Red Sox. That’s why when we were making these videos before the A series, we were talking about like, hey, here’s a really good time to to make some hay and get some wins at home because you got to go on the road and play the Red Sox and and play a Marlins team that’s better than you think and play the Yankees. And then sure enough, you you get swept by Oakland or Sacramento, whatever you want to call them. we’ll just call them the A’s, but you get swept by them and then here you are in a tricky position where you you really need to win this series against the Yankees and then you have another tough series coming up with Boston after that. So, we we’ll see how it goes down with Yordon. Dana Brown was on the flagship and said that, you know, Yordon’s making progress, but he’s still not at the point where he’s facing like live BP or anything like that. He said he feels good. That’s a good sign. But we’ve seen this movie before, guys, right? Unless he ramps up and doesn’t have another setback, then we’re just we’re just playing the waiting game with him. He did also he did me mention Jake Myers, believe it or not, Charlie, and he was like, “Yeah, imagine when we get Jake back, you know, around the time we get Yord on back and then we’ll be on full cylinders again.” That’s his big phrase. So, we’ll see. But I’m just happy. I feel like the offense is is good now that you you made the additions at the trade deadline. I feel like it’s a good offense from from day to day. I feel like they’re going to give you a chance to win ball games. You just need Yordon to come back and then try and make a playoff push. Well, imagination is the only way in which we’ve seen a full healthy lineup from this team because critical pieces of it have been uh injured. Uh we got the report this week uh that Esau Pedes is going to forego surgery and try to uh uh do PRP treatment to see if he can uh get back before the end of the season. I’m not going to hold my breath on that. I mean, it it sounds like it’s a a pretty severe situation. So, I think it’s just hope is the plan at this point. Uh that those PRP injections are as good as uh people say they are. And as far as, you know, Astros, you know, getting swept by the A’s. I’ll just give credit where it’s due. They also took two of three for the Mariners. Um so, they’re obviously hot right now. Look, I I’ll say this too. Jesus Sanchez might get overlooked because of the Carlos Korea deal being, you know, stealing all the headlines, but that might be one of the most under the radar moves that is really helping this team right now because that guy brings an incredible bat, but also an attitude, just an infectious love for the game that I think is really good for this this clubhouse right now that I think has, you know, been going through it over the past uh month and a half. Um, you know, obviously Charlie, you you mentioned this a little bit, so maybe we’ll get Josh’s thoughts on here, but Ericetti obviously still working his way back into shape. Uh, Espatada said Javier could be slated to return as soon as the next home stand, but Dana Brown said he thought he could use one more rehab start. Hey, way to get your story straight. Uh, before you talk to the media, um, you know, McCuller’s obviously working his way back. Garcia, more rehab starts. JP France just behind him. Brandon Walters, who knows? Or Walter, I should say, who knows? Um, a lot of TBA making starts for Houston recently. We saw this series, the bullpin, get taxed pretty good. Uh, Josh, what are your concerns for the pitching depth considering that was one place that Dana was unable to bolster at the deadline? I understand why he didn’t do it because he said the the price was just too much. And I saw a lot of other GMs interviewed after the deadline and they’re like and that’s why you didn’t see a lot of frontline starters moved. The GMs were just like the prices were just way too high. So I can’t blame Dana if that is the report that they wanted Aragetti and possibly also Bryce Matthews for the rental of Dylan CE. I don’t know that that feels a little bit too much for me. I think you’re going to need Arrogetti especially if you’re planning on letting Fromber walk because you gave Kareah all his money at least a lot of it. So, I’m a little concerned with Javier. Uh, Lance Serline tweeted something out I thought was pretty interesting. I saw that he was up to Dana Brown said he’s been up to 94.95 with this fast ball. In his last start, it was tweeted out that he got up to almost 94. Uh, Lance posted in 2022 his average VLOO on the fast ball was almost 94. It fell to a tick below 93 in 2023 and then it fell to a tick below 92 in 2024 when he had the really poor season that Charlie brings up. It hasn’t always been good with Javier. So, the fact that he’s kind of in the the velocity zone of when he was at his peak powers, that gives me a little bit of encouragement that when he comes back, obviously he has to improve, you know, his command, the guy, he just walks too many people. And I get your point, Brandon, it’s going to make the bullpen have to come in earlier. And there are concerns there. I think it’s going to be like this for a while. They’re going to have to let Herra Geti dip his toe in and like like we saw in this game, you’re going to watch Javier probably only give you three or four innings and then Lis Garcia behind him. So, I think this is something they’re going to have to adjust to, but hopefully by the time you get through this period, they’re going to be in a much better place coming down the last month of the season. At least that’s the hope. So hopefully we get, you know, true, you know, pinnacle Javier when he finally does return because we know the VO is a big part of his game with that fast ball and throwing it up high and getting guys to chase. 14 innings pitched, 15 walks. Yep. For Javier through his rehab starts. And in terms of velocity, when you’re going out there on a limited pitch count, two, three, three and a third, three and two/3, if you’re a starting pitcher, the goal is to at least get through five. what will be the sustainability of the velocity. But it doesn’t matter how hard you’re throwing it if you can’t spot it a little bit because Javier at his best isn’t just blowing people away with, you know, 98 99 mileph fire. And it’s the invisible fast ball that has that mysterious what to it that at 93 94 the second half of 2022 right through the postseason he just bamboozled hitters into where they were just helpless against him. Well, 2023 he was not good. 2024 he was spotty before his arm fell off. So whether it’s will the true Christian Javier please stand up depending on which Christian Javier uh that is. I mean the simple truth of the matter is at this point the Astro starting rotation depth is grossly inferior to that of the Mariners to that of the Rangers. Now, specifically uh relating to the Rangers, they have a working margin margin of four and a half, but the Mariners edging nearer and nearer their home for the Rays this weekend and they get the Orioles before the Astros go see Baltimore the end of end of next week. So, uh I the American League West is likely at this point to be on the table. Uh certainly to the point when the Astros and Mariners play three at Dyken Park the back half of September. Couple of follow-up points to that. The Astros Mariners season series is 55. So the winner of that series takes the tiebreaker. Should it come down to that closer on the schedule, right? The Astros and Yankees haven’t played yet this season. Right. We’re into August. It’s three games up there this weekend, then three games at Dyken Park in early September. If either team takes four out of six, well, it’s obviously a twoame gap in the standings and secures the tiebreaker. If it goes 3-3, well then you just shoot up six more games of schedule, which at this point would favor the Astros. The overall schedules, Astros, Mariners, Yankees, you could throw Red Sox, you could throw a a hat over all of them. The Texas Rangers are the one that has the on paper notably more difficult than the other four teams I just mentioned, Astros included. Yeah, and that’s I think going to be important because that team is hot. Uh Josh mentioned Javier’s VA, so I’ probably worth touching on that. AJ Blue Ball was touching the high 90s in his relief appearance in the Miami series. Um and while we’re talking about pitching, all season long, it’s been the formula, the excellent pitching that has gotten them into this place that they’re now fighting to keep in first place. Are are they positioned now from a lineup standpoint for the offense to carry more of the weight to allow them the time to tread water while they’re trying to get arms back and healthy? Uh I think the capability is there and it probably will have to since right now they only have two major league starting pitchers that you say all right you feel good when they’re going to the mound and they’ll be going Friday and Saturday in Hunter Brown and and Framber Valdez. Um, you know, if Walker and Diaz are going to be competent in that middle third of the order and Koreah has found or refound some consistency to his stroke, Altuve has been hovering in the high 700s, right about 800 OPS over the last several weeks now. Pena has swung the bat just fine since his return to the lineup. You use the the word depth earlier. There there is some of that. and toward the bottom if Cam Smith’s not going to snap out of it. Dubon’s just a sub 700 OPS guy typically. Uh Keratini continues to contribute when he’s in there. And you mentioned Sanchez when he joined the Astros was over 800 with his OPS against right-handed pitching for the season. Um I think when Jake Meyers gets back, uh if Jake Myers gets back because Taylor Trmell has started to slope downward. So, if you can chip up a little bit here, chip up a little bit there in the aggregate, and this isn’t one of the best lineups in baseball, but I think it’s the plus side of the middle without Yordon if they’re getting what we would think to be reasonable performance from the bulk of the guys. Not that someone needs to go crazy for them. Yeah. I mean, throughout a lot of the year, the Astros have had one of the better batting averages as a team, but the the OPS, the slugging, been kind of middle of the pack, even bottom third part of the time. So, it’s hard to think they’re going to take a big jump because part of what you’re doing is, you know, Korea is replacing Prett’s production, not necessarily giving you more because Pettis was an all-star. He already played really well. So, I don’t know if the offense is going to get significantly better. I think with Sanchez, I think he’ll definitely definitely help having that left-hander. I think they can find power. Dana talked about he’s like, I love the upside with this guy. He’s like, you know, we talked to Centron. we think we can improve his power numbers. And he’s already a guy that the analytics tell you has great bat speed. So if they see like another level, maybe you do get that going, you get a little little bump there. But I think the other thing to hit on too is like Lance McCullers, he’s going to throw on the side and then he’s expected to have a rehab start and then he’s going to be back. And to your point, Brandon, about the depth, that’s the other issue is yeah, Aragetti is not going to give you a lot early on. We know Javier is not McCullers wasn’t giving you a lot of innings even before he got hurt. I know he had the good performance against the Dodgers, but you know he was real hit or miss. I mean that just looking at his last five starts, two and two/3, three innings, three and a third, and then a five and a six inning performance. So there you see like more than half of his starts, he’s not giving you more than about three innings, four innings. So, that’s going to be something to watch as as these pitchers come back, the bullpen’s going to be challenged to kind of, you know, take a little bit of the slack off of these guys as they get used to building up their pitch count again. Uh, if Christian Walker can keep the current pace, I know it’s not torid, but it’s much better than abysmal, which he’s been for most of the year, then that’s almost like an acquisition if they can Yeah. expect him to do better. if if Yiner Diaz can find it and and be more consistent with it, but they need that guy because he’s not bringing much defensively at all right now. And so they need all the offensive production they can get out of him. And quite frankly, they need all the offensive production they can get out of everybody right now for all the the reasons that we mentioned. Can I pick it up? Piggy back on that, Brandon, real quick. Sure. Right now, Yiner and Diaz, they together over the last 30 days, they lead the team in home runs with four apiece. Yiner’s hitting 289, OPS over 800. Diaz hitting 253 with an OPS of 784. So, I mean, these two guys are are your two best power hitters right now over the last month. This is this is what you expected from them. So, if they can keep this up, you’re right, Brandon, because this version of Yiner and this version of Christian Walker, very different than what we saw earlier in the season. Well, obviously we’ve uh we’ve touched on this. We should probably get to it. Houston travels to New York uh prior to that rematch with Boston in Dyken. Uh Yankees have lost 13 of 21 going back uh into like mid July. Uh lost uh two of three to Texas. So thanks for nothing. Um Astros, you know, we you mentioned it. Astros have Frober and Brown lined up in those first two games. I think Brown and From respectively. Um, how critical is it that they have to take advantage of this Yankee series, take advantage of a Yankees team who’s on tilt uh to hold off the Mariners and Rangers from that top spot? And what are you guys going to be looking for specifically out of this series? We’re still not to mid August, so it’s not quite critical, but it’s important for reasons that we talked about. the Astros both within their own division race and in the wild card standings should that be the route they have to make it to the postseason. On paper, you couldn’t ask for much bigger mismatches in the Astros favor in the first two games of the series. Hunter Brown Friday, who looked like primo Hunter Brown for the first time in a fistful of starts in his outing in Boston. And with the off day Thursday, Brown gets an extra day’s rest, so he should be ready to fire away opposite Cam Schlitler who’s made four big league appearances. He can hit a hundred on the gun, but he’s made four big league appearances. Then Saturday, you have Framber Valdez, who had really one hiccup inning at Fenway against the Red Sox, but over his last 15 starts has just been brilliant. The Yankees are going with Luis Heel, who was last season’s American League Rookie of the Year, but then his arm fell off in the spring and he had a very poor first outing upon rejoining the Yankees uh last week. Then Sunday, the pendulum swings. The Astros in the TBD column, Colt Gordon, or do they want to pull him from the rotation? Jason Alexander on on four days rest. uh Max Freed for the Yankees, their $212 million free agent acquisition who overall has pitched like it allstar sub3 RA, but Freed’s only made one quality start, that loose definition of at least six innings, no more than three earned runs allowed. Only one quality start in his last six. So, the Astros again on paper are seeing a favorable Yankees rotation matchup for this weekend. But as always, in one series of baseball, who knows? And the Astros in the regular season have not really had their way at Yankee Stadium in recent years. But again, as always, like the brokerage ads, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Exactly. That’ll be a tough one in game three against Max Freed. That’s because we still, like Charlie pointed out, we’re not exactly sure who’s going to pitch. And Freed’s really good. But Charlie’s right. Two of his last three outings, he’s given up at least four runs. So he hasn’t he hasn’t been at at the peak of his abilities. But that is going to be a challenge to to beat him with a lesser guy. Of course, the way this season goes, who knows? Alexander could go out there and throw another six scoreless or do something wild like that. But, you know, this kind of stuff is about what’s most likely to happen. And what’s most likely to happen is you try and win those two games with Fromurn, with Hunter Brown, try and get out of there with the series win. Yeah. The Yankees have to look at Houston as also an opportunity to take advantage of a team that’s that’s also hasn’t really uh been on a torid pace over the past month. So, they’re also going to look at it as an opportunity to maybe get well, but again, it’s going to be they’re going to have their work cut out for them with uh Brown and From on the mound. Final thoughts before we’re out the door. The Yankees have obviously the richest history of all major league franchises. Saturday is Old-Timer’s Day at Yankee Stadium where they’ll introduce all kinds of ex Yankee players. For the first time since pre-COVID, they’re actually going to play an oldtimers game, two or three innings, depending on how long it runs. Astros and Yankees are playing at 2:05 Eastern time on Saturday. I’m all for the Astros putting one of these on. The Astros have enough history now and can overlap multiple generations of players. What a blast would it be to see Bagwell and Bigio and Burkeman and we can go back farther than those guys uh and just have them on the field some Saturday or Sunday afternoon game at at Dyken Park next season for uh just a celebration of the history of Astros baseball baseball. Uh Jose Cruz at 77 years old in an oldtimers game. How fun would it be to see him square up a line drive single? And I wouldn’t bet against him. I’m going to go back to just kind of an overview of I just love this Koreah trait as an Astros fan because it brings back the, you know, everybody else verse us mentality. I felt like with just Altuve really being, you know, the the main face of the 2017 season, it hasn’t been as fun. So you trade for Carlos Kare and you get to go to Finway and listen to all them boo Altuve and boo Koreah and then now we get to go watch them go to Yankee Stadium and now it’s not just Altuve they’re going to be raining the booze down on you got Kareah too. It feels like just the the old Astros team that that spirit is back again. So I love these high stakes games on the road where they hate Houston and we hate them just as much and now that we got Koreah, we got our bad guys back, Alt and Koreah, this is going to be fun. It’s been an uh obviously an overwhelming positive uh reception for getting Korea back. We’ve had some people in our comments that were, you know, not thrilled about the commitment to him and the money necessarily given the health issues and the numbers that he put up this year prior to the trade. But it’s it’s been kind of unreal and maybe surreal is the better way to say it because he hasn’t made his uh home debut yet with the team. uh they’ve been on the road the entire time, but uh having Espatada talking about Koreah, having Jeremy Pñena and Koreah on on on the field at the same time, it’s been kind of surreal to see that. Now, that’s been the reaction locally, nationally, the reaction’s been like, “Oh, no, not this team again.” Uh I and in fact I think uh this is Jared Kurabas who uh made the uh made the comment during the Red Sox series. I thought I was I was done watching Carlos Korea hit tanks uh in an Astros uniform, but here we are. Um so we’ll see. I I like their I like their chances and uh I’m I’m with you. I’m excited to have Kareah back on the the team again as well. Quick message. If you’re interested in advertising your service or product on our show, contact our friends on the sales team by visiting houston.sportsmap.comadvertise. sportsmap.com/advertise. The link is in the description. One last reminder, if you’re watching on YouTube, be sure to click like on the video. And if you listen on podcast on apps like Apple or Spotify, give us a fivestar rating there if you will. Uh, next scheduled episode will drop on Monday. So, make sure you subscribe to this channel with those notifications on for Charlie and Josh. I’m Brandon saying so long. Thanks for listening and as always, ghosts. [Music]
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21 comments
Charlie is a hall of fame sportscaster !
As a Native Houstonian, who lives in Detroit, I love this show, and I love my Astros.
Good job guys! 👏
No one is gonna point out that brandon said yanoir and deiz lmao
THEY needed a big bat they didnt get but there is always next year, unless they get jordan alveraz back with myers they cant win more bats
Going into New York the Astros have a 2 game lead. I believe they leave New York at best with a 2 game lead. My prediction the Yankees sweep the Astros
They definitely need to take 2 of 3 from the Yankees if not who knows whats going to happen can we do enough to make the playoffs at least got my fingers crossed
They need Jordan to be back the last month of August no later than that or i dont see us making the playoffs!!
Arrighetti has one good month in his career. Otherwise below average. Javier hasn’t pitched in a long time and neither has France or Garcia. To assume these guys are going to come back and be good is dreaming. Look at McCullers who was out for a long time and not that great of a pitcher anyway.
Think they need to play Dubon in CF more to get Urias in the lineup over Trammel. Also probably a good idea to get Cam some reps in CF when games get out of hand. Thinking about the future if the entire team is healthy the best lineup is likely to be a decision between Meyers and Cam. With how good Pena is playing offensively I wonder if the optimal lineup might be with him batting in the 2 or 3 spot since he's the only guy consistently getting hits with guys on. Parades forgoing surgery= he is gonna miss 2026 when he gets it done in April. It will be a typical Astros injury.
Josh is all of us as Astros fan on a daily basis and Charlie is us when we crash out and us when we celebrate as well
Lance McCullers😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Correa just has that attitude I like, so it's nice having him back.
Josh do you wash that hat? Does it smell like salty old bread? Lol
Diehard Houston sports fan living in Indianapolis. Love this podcast. I get the relevant stats insight and opinion. Dynamo,Texans,Stros ,Rockets…LETS GO!!!
We’ve been saying all season, “imagine if Walker and Diaz started hitting…..” Add Correa & Sánchez, things could get exciting.
These dudes are super smart. Love learning from their deep insights individually
I think Astros will get 2 out of 3
Javier’s velocity was deceiving.. the “invisiball” was just a 95-96 rising fastball that maintained its plane causing swings n misses
Astros pitching is just not good enough to hold off Mariners, who have a tough stretch schedule wise coming up. Offense should be enough but starting pitching is their downfall. Wildcard is possible; winning division ain’t gonna happen.
Christian Javier has just just come back from n surgery, Pallilo. damn give him a chance. give him a chance to straighten himself out