ASTROS BINGO UPDATE 8-4-25
I honestly can't remember if I updated Astros Bingo today or not so I'm doing it now. Not much to update when everyone on our team sucks at the same time all weekend.

IT'S NOW OR NEVER
The Rockies' margin of error is down to zero. They have to go 51-0 to have a .500 season.


THE WORST SQUARES
Here are the worst squares to have picked that are due to ineptitude, not injury.

Yainer Diaz: 90+ RBI. He's halfway there! Just needs 45 more RBI in 50 games. 7 people picked that.

Christian Walker: Team OPS leader. If you count the new guys, he's currently 12th at .696. But he is on pace for 170 strikeouts!

Justin Verlander: 10+ wins. Going for ol' #2 tonight.

Ryan Pressly: 25+ saves. SI says the Twins are talking to him. Would be a nice way to go full circle since he started there and the Twins are pretty much done with any high-stake games this year. Nothing like having the guy you picked for a square get released mid-season. I think I had Dennis Rodman in fantasy basketball on year when some team cut him, might have been the Mavericks. It was a weird feeling.

The A's average more fans in Sacramento than they did in Oakland: I'm on the hook for this debacle. They averaged 11,386 in their lame duck finale in Oakland. This year, they're at 9,693 in Sacramento. Since COVID, the A's have averaged 8,660, 9,849, 10,276, 11,386, and 9,693. The last time they averaged digits in the thousands was 1979, a team I now want to know everything about.

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Drunken Overseas Bettor said:

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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This week’s injury updates pic.twitter.com/aCEu37Y3Xq

— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) August 4, 2025

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Is the "offsite facility" Lance's back yard?

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Let's set the O/U on pitchers returning and performing at a level better than who they replace. The group includes Arrighetti, Dubin, France, Garcia, Javier, McCullers, and Walter.

I'll say 2.5- do you take the over or under?

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I'll take the under, I only trust Arrighetti and maybe France out of that bunch, although I love LuAce and Javier.

n_touch said:

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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Isaac Paredes received a PRP injection on his right hamstring and is going to rehab in an attempt to return this season, Astros GM Dana Brown said. Surgery was on the table for Paredes, Brown said, but Paredes chose to rehab the injury instead.

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 4, 2025

The surgery would carry a recovery time of “six months plus,” GM Dana Brown said. https://t.co/sb7mMHbE6V

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 4, 2025

Why though... Just have the surgery and be ready next year

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Will try and come back and end up have surgery in Jan screwing up next season too. This is the whole JV situation again.

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Said this back when they said he was getting the 2nd opinion.

We've seen this movie before. Too many times

texasaggie2015 said:

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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Isaac Paredes received a PRP injection on his right hamstring and is going to rehab in an attempt to return this season, Astros GM Dana Brown said. Surgery was on the table for Paredes, Brown said, but Paredes chose to rehab the injury instead.

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 4, 2025

The surgery would carry a recovery time of “six months plus,” GM Dana Brown said. https://t.co/sb7mMHbE6V

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 4, 2025

Why though... Just have the surgery and be ready next year

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Respect the toughness and drive to be out there helping the team.

That said, I really hope this is an educated decision and not one that will bite him in the ass.

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Did the second opinion state that it could be healed without surgery?

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It sounds like Paredes is trying to heal without surgery with the PRP injection. It seems to be a conservative approach to see if his body bounces back. I'm sure if it doesn't respond as he'd like by the end of the season, he will get the surgery.

If he ends up getting the surgery at the beginning of October, he'd be out until April. Then, he'd rehab for a month or six weeks -- so he'd likely be back mid-May next season.

I have no issues with the conservative approach if there's a possibility he responds this year.

It also says Paredes opted for it -- his choice. If you were in his position, would you immediately want to try surgery if there was a possibility that it could heal from this injection and rehab?

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Depends on how high the possibility of coming back is. He is already guaranteed to get paid. Most of us would be making that decision with the knowledge that we need to get back to work as quick as possible.

Tendons do not have good blood flow and take a long time to heal. Surgery is a quicker option and typically stronger than healing on its own. As with anything that comes from the team, there could be more going on than what they are saying. Someone mentioned career changing injury in a post before, not sure where that came from, but if that is the case, I could see why he may not want surgery.

This article reads to me that either which way he will not be back this year.

https://bostonsportsandbiologics.com/blog/platelet-rich-plasma-vs-surgery-for-hamstring-injury

I know nothing of these injections that he's doing but I wonder how the rest and rehab route compares with the surgery route as far as reaggravating it.

But I also have to think maybe the big issue here is that the players are given too much freedom to dictate what they do and how they rehab. The medical staff and give all the medical advise they want but if the player is not on the same page I can see that ending a big issue.

Really need to have a 3 game division lead after tonight's game.

Beau Holder said:

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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Isaac Paredes received a PRP injection on his right hamstring and is going to rehab in an attempt to return this season, Astros GM Dana Brown said. Surgery was on the table for Paredes, Brown said, but Paredes chose to rehab the injury instead.

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 4, 2025

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Yordan meanwhile on week 10 of nursing his hand?

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Jace Laviolette laughs at this

Of AJ Blubaugh's presence on the taxi squad, Joe Espada only said he is "an option to be used in this series." Espada didn't reveal which of the next two games Spencer Arrighetti will start, either.

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 4, 2025

can't be mad about any of those swings, just gotta have the results follow

Lotta hard hit balls resulting in 3 outs to open

linkdude said:

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can't be mad about any of those swings, just gotta have the results follow

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3 outs on 8 pitches with only 4 in the strike zone is not encouraging...

dWar ding ruled a hit

changed to E-4

Be cool if Altuve would be a leader and wake the hell up instead of kicking the ball and not producing

Marlins surrender the most stolen bases in MLB

Astros second most

txags92 said:

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linkdude said:

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can't be mad about any of those swings, just gotta have the results follow

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3 outs on 8 pitches with only 4 in the strike zone is not encouraging...

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considering they drove the baseball pretty well, I'd say that's encouraging

both Altuve and Pena's EV was higher than the last line out to RF from Miami

I would love for someone smarter than me to explain how we can still be in 1P when 4 games out of every 6 we trot out Alexander/Gusto/Walter/Gordon/Blubaugh.

How those pitchers and our hitters have managed this is a massive mystery.

linkdude said:

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txags92 said:

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linkdude said:

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can't be mad about any of those swings, just gotta have the results follow

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3 outs on 8 pitches with only 4 in the strike zone is not encouraging...

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considering they drove the baseball pretty well, I'd say that's encouraging

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They are still outs. No moral victories in baseball. Until they start hitting them where they ain't it is the same result.

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Marlins surrender the most stolen bases in MLB

Astros second most

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Yes. But we run like 2nd least. So it's a pillow fight between our runners and their throwers.

Lob wedge. He needed the gap wedge.

Looks like we've got a bad case of "warning track power" tonight.

109.4 carrying out to the right fielder

We need some Jedi as coaches. Teach our guys the mind trick so we can move the defenders to the wrong spot before they swing.

feels like the whole shift ban was overblown. Analytics still do their work, especially with outfielder positioning. Taking away XBH is (usually) way more important than taking away singles hit the other way.

EastCoastAgNc said:

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We need some Jedi as coaches. Teach our guys the mind trick so we can move the defenders to the wrong spot before they swing.

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Send them some of our coaches...

Constanza is looking sharp so far. Glad they brought him up. 26 pitches through 2.

Alcantara is throwing pitches over the plate