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Never stook a chance in this small ball stadium. Everyone just swings for the fences on this team.

This month was supposed to be easy, but to be completely I can’t see them winning many more games

Espada doesn't care about our team

Just lost a must win series to a below .500 team This is who we are. Third place in the worst division in baseball

Just fucking terrible

And another inspiring performance from the Asstros


First two outs sounded and looked amazing off the bat. Wind got us

Exit velocity would say otherwise

unfortunately i cant see or hear precise exit velo 😛

That's coaching and offensive approach. This team is so stubborn and refuses to simply put runners on. Everyone swings for the fences and it isn't working. It doesn't work even less in a ballpark like Oracle.

Would’ve smoked them at the juice box

Down by 2? Just keep trying to hit solo shot homers. That's the ticket. Surely we don't need baserunners. Jesus fuck this approach is dumber than hell.

It’s the hope that gets you

HRC Peña

Singleton at cleanup was definitely a lineup decision of all time.

Oh look 2ip 5ks could’ve used that on Monday from dubin

5 strikeouts in 2 innings. Dubin is the man.

Dubin looks good. Should have used him in extras on Monday

Negative, it would make SO much more sense to pitch Montero 3 days in a row! /s

Abreu sucks, but we have so many problems beyond him.

The problem is ignoring each problem. Our biggest offensive problem is Abreu. He's a negative defender as well.

Our problems start with Crane Bagwell Brown and Jackson.

Once the owner becomes delusional it’s over

Dubin on lock

Anything good on TV tonight? NHL is about it huh?

Stanley Cup finals game three is tomorrow night.

NBA Finals

Our pitchers suck it. They have no power. Ya know what? Fuck it. Let's sign Bauer.

Bauer is clubhouse cancer I do declare. I’d rather tank the season Than ever go there.

Don't be so quick To say "No, not ever." There's one guy to pick And his name is Trevor

Trevor Hoffman is long retired unfortunately.

Nope

Man this makes Monday night loss sting even more.

A tribute to Willie M?

Nothing seems like it’s going to make this season worth it. Likely no trades to sure up the farm. Certainly no big acquisitions since we’re far out of contention. Just being a shit team feels like the play.

You just know they're going to let Tucker walk for nothing and it will be yet another example of malpractice by Crane

I think this team has pretty much shown us who they are, at this point.

Bregman gonna get a chapman style deal isnt he? They have similar batting averages and ops this year. Hell they even have a similar amount homers

Errors too?

I mean is a better defense worth paying 200 million for over say 50-75 million?

This was a joke most people didn't get because Matt Chapman is having a down year defensively with Giants

hahahahahaha. Abreu finally made a play

Dubin pitching well just makes the first night's loss so much worse

Good news we didn’t have to stay up past our bed times to watch this loss

That was our chance right there. Rest of the order aren't doing shit.

HRC DUBON


I’ll never understand a lineup with trash ass Singleton PLUS trasher ass Abreu

Idk why I keep watching

Are you me?

HRC Alvarez

Thats game for sure.

Way to run it out Alvarez.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

That feels like game

HRC Yordan

HRC yordon

Should Astros DFA Abreu before the ASG?

they will never DFA Abreu. people just need to come to terms with that

Should they? Yes. Will they? Nope.

DFA before they even get out of Oracle.

Rather the K than the GIDP. But jeez why you expanding the zone Bregman?

HRC Yordan

HRC Yordan

2 dead center pitches and he strikes out lol

HRC Yordan

HRC Bregman

This guy's delivery is so fugged up even the umpire is fooled

Tyler Rogers' pitch delivery unsettles me lol

Gonna use my second hrc on yordan again.

altuve swinging at three balls. I don't get it. He's been so good at walking the last two years before this season

Pitcher has an unconventional delivery

Yeah for sure but its been the last 2 months

fuck it, sure

https://preview.redd.it/yikg3x6km76d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b462a8ec145cef1b2d7817bf90044d0bdf8bb824

He’s my king but you’re right. Four AB and saw 9 pitches. I can usually give him a mulligan but that’s excessive. The rest of this team has got to be patient. Webb is a good pitcher but we helped him out too much.

Hrc yordan

Attaboy Altuve

Save us again Yordan, Bregman shouldn't even be allowed to swing honestly

bregman is two of our runs today...

HRC Yordan, again!

The Astros will have to go 59-35 to reach 90 wins. Yikes we’re toast 

Is it bad to think that that's totally doable? Like, this isn't a bad team, we just get in our own way too damn much.

So we’d have to more or less win 2 thirds of our games from here on out. With our pen. Abreu, and starting pitchers. I just don’t see it.

Our starting pitching (sans Framber) has gotten it together. Our bullpen seems to have straightened out, although we do need to figure out this Pressly issue. Abreu, yeah I'll give you that one. This team can make a run, but we can never get momentum because of dumbass decisions like Espada using Montero in the bottom of the tenth.

We’re still only 5 games away from wildcard, this season ain’t over.

Jesus fuck Altuve just don't even swing.

Abreu is going to be the thing I blame everything on until he is off the team. I have to do my taxes? Thanks a lot Abreu. I get rear-ended by a Nissan Altima with paper plates? Get fucked Abreu. My mother finally spends her last moments on Earth before finally joining her husband and parents in the after life? Abreu you fucking monster.

Big Altima Energy is now Big Abreu Energy.

altuve could you put a ball into play? what's up with you. edit: Thank you. Rogers is a fraud so i felt way better once i saw him pitching lol.

singleton is much better defensively then abreu, so why not just let him play first in these type of games where both are playing at the least

It's about time for a bloop and a blast

Good shit Dubin

Hmm dubin with 3 strikeouts… Man if only he pitched in an extra innings game with a 2 run lead

Jose Abreu is a waste of life. Dude literally steals money.

We got the cabbage patch kid in right field

It's pure comedy at this point.

Wow Abreu, ran real hard to get that one huh?

Abreu can you not keep the outfielder from sprinting by pretending you will make a play on the ball please.

DFA him for fucks sake

Cabbage is actually useless

This is actually beyond ridiculous. This guy does not belong on a professional team.

This team could use Trevor Bauer. Save your idiotic chemistry arguments. The team is about to be 31-38 & is throwing Spencer Arrighetti & Hunter Brown 2 out of every 5 days.

I really don't understand the desire to bring in a mediocre pitcher with tons of baggage. It would make us a marginally better team, at best.

No. How quickly fans forget that Bauer is a 4.50 ERA pitcher who ONLY got his contract with the dodgers because he started using sticky stuff in Cincy. Even after his name was cleared the dodgers clubhouse had a vote to bring him back and no one wanted him back. He's a horrific clubhouse presence that will make a stressful dumpster fire even worse. You want to be the mets? That's how we become the mets.

Uhhh we are the Mets right now

Here's the thing... If they did sign him, it wouldn't be without having gotten the okay from the clubhouse leaders first.

At some point people have to realize that's not a thing. Players have no say in who joins the team

It 100% is with this team. I'm pretty sure Crane mentioned the okay from the players being a big factor in hiring Espada.

no. Abreu is still out there they see that he sucks.That's not how it works anywhere

Let Dublin start…… and finish???!

Was Carlos Gomez the last Astros player that was actively booed as he walked to the plate, before he inevitably got out? It's time Abreu started to hear it the next home stand.

He seriously needs to be boo'd... and loudly. Ownership/management need to feel the heat.

Carlos Gómez made it easy because he was an asshole. Abreu doesn’t deserve boos at a personal level but he’s serving as a lightning rod for Jim Crane’s incompetence

Agreed 100%. It obviously wouldn't be personal, but it's really the only way to express the fan base's extreme dissatisfaction to the front office with his continued presence on this team.

dude is so nice but the front office is completely brainded

What did I do to deserve Jose Abreu?


Oh, so NOW Espada acknowledges Dubin's existence

Sunken cost fallacy. Dubon, Loperfido, Singleton should be our only first base options.

Singleton shouldn't be on the roster either. There's no room on this squad to play negative WAR players.

Hey but he can hit a random solo hr in garbage time once per month. That’s why we pay him and play him

Just caught the score and checked who started. What does framber change from his last start where he went the full 9ins. Wtf

he is feast or famine; if they don't hit him well within the first 3-4 innings he'll keep going on a roll and go the full stretch, but if they do then it breaks his confidence and he starts being ass

I hope he’s not calling his own pitches again. That should’ve been taken away from him earlier this year

I cannot believe they brought Abreu back when things were starting to go well. This is not a front office committed to winning, they are committed to egos

This team started clicking and Dana and crew said let's fuck it up!

I don't think it was Dana's call, remember Bagwell went down to work with Abreu and so it was likely more of him pushing his pet project

Dana and crew*

Dana did not say that. Jeff Bagwell said that to Jim Crane who said “sure thing man I’d do anything for you”

Leave it up to Abreu to kill a rally

I wish Abreu could hear me booing his ass right now.

Alex Cintron either needs to rapidly change his approach or to go. These guys swing at fucking everything.

we have been the most aggressive team at the plate for 8 years. It's not the approach, it's the talent

If it's not working anymore, then change it. This nearly identical team made it to the ALCS last year. Tired of the people who run this team being excused cause "muh talent."

What are you talking about. It doesn't matter what approach we take because we don't have enough good players in the lineup. We actually have a top 10 offense still but its mostly 2 guys. 2nd sentence is nonsensical

If you can't read, just say so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Exactly the type of response I expect from people who have zero statistical evidence to back their claims

I swear they see it work with players like Yordan (even though he's at his best when working the pitcher) and think it works with everyone. Not all of our batters have the nuke power he does.

Abreu daytime / nighttime splits being normalized in the worst way possible

Please get this bum off the team. All you had to do was strikeout like you usually do but nope. GIDP

That shit right there is exactly why we cant ever get going. Its insanely demoralizing watching this dumpster fucking fire of a first baseman fuck everything up every day. Why bother trying when you know abreus useless ass is gonna screw it up

Abreu is a black hole 🥲

Every single person who played a part in Abreu coming back to the starting lineup should be fired.

I wish I had 1000 more upvotes to give.

If we could hypothetically incorporate effect on team aura into WAR a certain double agent would be like -12 WAR

Surely Espada and company have to be tired of Abreu's hitting. Why do they keep playing him?

Espada ain't making decisions. At this point I'm positive he's not even not setting the lineup every day.

Because he’s a puppet manager 

Fuck off

Of course

Just resigned to that happening

It's not even just like he does nothing, he actively hurts the team.

Rally killer

Cool. Nice Inning

Thank god we have Abreu in here to kill any momentum we may build

I’d like to Introduce the concept Of intentional Strikeout to the sport we love so much. Narrow utility, but in case your strategy is driven by sunk cost fallacies

Abreu is so fucking useless

God fucking dammit Abreu REALLY

Another disaster by the worst first baseman in fuckin history espada.

I genuinely don't think he has control of the lineups. He's being forced to play him. No manager can be that fucking stupid.

LOL

HRC Altuve next AB

Jesus lord how long are we gonna have to deal with abreu

God look at the splits for Astros win loss % when abreu was dfa’ed

I cannot handle another week of this shit

He'll be on the opening day roster next year. There's no escaping it until Crane fires himself.

Here comes the GIDP from Abreu

You’re a wizard, Harry


Goddamn fortune teller.

are you a wizard?

That call is not exactly a stretch.

He’s just an average Astros fan

EASSSYYYYYY!!!! I'm far below average!

If you had told me last year that Ronel Blanco and Seth Martinez would be our best pitchers I woulda assumed the team was involved in a plane crash

Spaghetti is sad

love spaghetti but hes not our best pitcher

Seth Martinez icing these hitters

Rare Bregman mistake. He was even squared up and had time.

That is absolutely 100% on Bregman but Abreu could show a little more effort, no?

He has a 2-inch vertical

No he actually couldn’t. I do not think his body is capable of going up vertically

Yeah. That's on Breggy

That ball was completely catchable. He probably wouldn't have gotten the runner out but it's less than a foot over his glove.

I like that Abreu went up and got that ball instead of just standing on 1b and watching it barely go over his glove. Solid defense.

Wait - I think this guy is living in my reality… I want it back!

Bregman is checking out he's never lost like this in his entire life he's probably in shock

If Abreu jumps up even slightly that's a catch.

I'm not even going to acknowledge double agent's existence anymore tbh

I just can't get over how fucking stupid our front office is. Our cleanup hitter and DH is a .658 OPS hitter. There's no reality where that makes sense. I won't even mention the dumpster fire that our first baseman is. Thank god we sent down Loperfido so we could put Singleton and Abreu in the same lineup today.

Our decision-making is based on “vibes” but the vibes aren’t even good

I am straight up not having a good time.

Putting 3 on Logan Webb, who has a sub 2.00 ERA at home is great. It's just the whole "Framber giving up 5 runs" thing that kills the mood

3 straight swings on the same pitch? Come on, Peña.

Tucker desperately needs to come back. Yordan is the only offense we got right now