***** Official Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread *****

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3 more to go
The Original Houston 1836
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Altuve double #434 ties him for 138th place all-time with Billy Williams and the allegedly still playing Andrew McCutchen. Williams had 20+ doubles for 15 straight seasons from 1961 to 1975.
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Cmon Yainer
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Yanier PHing and not Yordan?

WTF?
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C'mon Diaz
The Original Houston 1836
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Ag_07 said:

Yanier PHing and not Yordan?

WTF?
When has Yordan ever hit a big home run?
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The Original Houston 1836 said:

Ag_07 said:

Yanier PHing and not Yordan?

WTF?
When has Yordan ever hit a big home run?
Twisted Helix
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Highly predictable. Rather have taken the chance with Yordan.
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hitting with RISP has been horrid this game
Beau Holder
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Impressive amount of fight from a giant deficit even though it's trending toward not enough. Much improved from the first 15 games or so. Crazy to think we probably win this game without the Peña error or leaving the bases loaded in the 5th.

Pinch-hitting Yainer there was a head-scratcher though with how often he strikes out on pitches that don't even look like strikes coming out of the hand.
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I will never understand why a DH needs a day off. Cal Ripken is spinning in his rocking chair.
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Looking like a normal offense lately
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Did we change windmills? That's Cora on third.
lol
nvm
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Hopefully Jake can get on base here and start a rally.
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The Original Houston 1836 said:

Ag_07 said:

Yanier PHing and not Yordan?

WTF?
When has Yordan ever hit a big home run?
If Yordan pinch hits later he's going to be even more well rested.
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Walker with a horrible game
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Walker has had a bunch of chances today to go 0-fer
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Ags #1 said:

hitting with RISP has been horrid this game season

FIFY
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The LOB total today has to be something like 30.
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let's have a nice round of applause for another non-clutch AB by Christian Walker!
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Keep waiting for Walker to break out. He has shown flashes but not consistent
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Walker continues the pattern of teasing us with a great game and great ABs only to return to go 0fer tooday.
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Walker is what he is….

A high strikeout, low OBP guy that will get a rare XBH

Needs to be hitting like 6th or 7th in the lineup
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One of the more "That's baseball, Suzyn" games in a while. Still a good series win. Not that mad about it but the fact that they're so good at poor RISP ABs that they got the tying run to the plate three times in the last five innings and plated absolutely no one, their 1B cleanup hitter is coin flip on great or abjectly awful, Altuve is a magic 8 ball from day to day, and the manager thought pinch-hitting the catcher who flails at anything within 30 feet instead of the closest thing to slugger this team's got was the move are all hard to solve for in the aggregate.
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When do we end the Rodger's experiment with his sub 600 OPS?
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Beau Holder said:

and the manager thought pinch-hitting the catcher who flails at anything within 30 feet instead of the closest thing to slugger this team's got was the move are all hard to solve for in the aggregate.
That decision was an absolute head scratcher.
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AggiEE said:

When do we end the Rodger's experiment with his sub 600 OPS?
I think the team has 45 days from the start of the season to cut him and avoid paying the base salary of $2M, but he can also opt out tomorrow which I would doubt happen.
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Mr. Awesome Time said:

AggiEE said:

When do we end the Rodger's experiment with his sub 600 OPS?
I think the team has 45 days from the start of the season to cut him and avoid paying the base salary of $2M, but he can also opt out tomorrow which I would doubt happen.
I would rather see Rodgers playing than Dubon
What do you boys want for breakfast BBQ ?.....OK Chili.
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Beau Holder said:

One of the more "That's baseball, Suzyn" games in a while. Still a good series win. Not that mad about it but the fact that they're so good at poor RISP ABs that they got the tying run to the plate three times in the last five innings and plated absolutely no one, their 1B cleanup hitter is coin flip on great or abjectly awful, Altuve is a magic 8 ball from day to day, and the manager thought pinch-hitting the catcher who flails at anything within 30 feet instead of the closest thing to slugger this team's got was the move are all hard to solve for in the aggregate.
and the middle infield botched a double play opportunity in back-to-back days costing us 5 unearned runs.
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Ag_07 said:

Walker continues the pattern of teasing us with a great game and great ABs only to return to go 0fer tooday.

He's a .250 hitter, so he's going to fail three out of every four chances. 2-3 one night followed by 0-5 is .250. If he comes through in bunches, he's going to fail in bunches, too.

Cam striking out looking with the bases loaded and one out on a fastball right down the pipe was probably more painful than Walker not coming through today. It's baseball, though. These things happen.
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AggiEE said:

When do we end the Rodger's experiment with his sub 600 OPS?

If what was published is true about the Astros having an out clause 45 days into the season, then maybe soon. But Rodgers' $2M is probably worth keeping him around unless we are so close to the tax threshold that we need to save every penny we can for potential deadline moves.
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Yeah no doubt. Cam got caught sleeping looking for offspeed and let one right by him.

It's just frustrating with Walker after seeing glimpses and thinking he's about to pull out of it and go on a run then he comes out and lays an egg like today.
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MaxPower said:

We need to trade for Riley Greene. Dude loves hitting in the Daike


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iBrad said:

AggiEE said:

When do we end the Rodger's experiment with his sub 600 OPS?

If what was published is true about the Astros having an out clause 45 days into the season, then maybe soon. But Rodgers' $2M is probably worth keeping him around unless we are so close to the tax threshold that we need to save every penny we can for potential deadline moves.
Seems like a lot of money to pay for somebody who so far hasn't been significantly better defensively than Altuve at 2B and isn't better offensively than the other players who can replace Altuve at LF. So if we are not getting better defensively or offensively putting him in at 2B, why are we spending $2M to trot him out there? Surely there is a cheap defensive whiz IF out there in our farm system that can hit .175+ at the back end of the order if we really want to upgrade the defense at 2B, right?
Mr. Awesome Time
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Maybe Brice if he's a realistic option anytime soon. I recall reading here the nerds or others in the organization thinking they could tweak and improve Rodgers' hitting.

I don't get the sense they want to put Altuve back at 2nd full-time.

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