I agree with the sentiments shared here:

Team feels complacent, lack of GAF.
Offense hasn't improved at all

If we are sellers at the deadline I'm oka letting major prices go to rebuild for after the upcoming lockout season

I'm glad I started to check out last year. This team is booty.

All I do is Nguyen said:

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I agree with the sentiments shared here:

Team feels complacent, lack of GAF.
Offense hasn't improved at all

If we are sellers at the deadline I'm oka letting major prices go to rebuild for after the upcoming lockout season

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I'm not sure how you measure complacency, but I think a better word is competence. The reality is that Houston's hitters have not been very good, certainly not very productive from a power standpoint, for some time. Our young guys are not highly regarded, and our veteran players are old. Mix in very average players with exploitable weaknesses like Meyers (no power) and Diaz (sliders galore), and you have a lineup comprised of reputation and hope.

And that's only talking about the batters... the rotation is another discussion that's likely to veer into negative territory. As mentioned several weeks ago, EVERYTHING must go right for this team to compete. You can't expect much when the list of what must go right is an order of magnitude bigger than the list of what can go wrong.

Finally, the ongoing power outage at home is a serious concern. I remain dumbfounded that Dana did nothing to balance the lineup.

It's still just two games, but we are concerned because the results seem very familiar.

Marvin said:

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All I do is Nguyen said:

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I agree with the sentiments shared here:

Team feels complacent, lack of GAF.
Offense hasn't improved at all

If we are sellers at the deadline I'm oka letting major prices go to rebuild for after the upcoming lockout season

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I'm not sure how you measure complacency, but I think a better word is competence. The reality is that Houston's hitters have not been very good, certainly not very productive from a power standpoint, for some time. Our young guys are not highly regarded, and our veteran players are old. Mix in very average players with exploitable weaknesses like Meyers (no power) and Diaz (sliders galore), and you have a lineup comprised of reputation and hope.

And that's only talking about the batters... the rotation is another discussion that's likely to veer into negative territory. As mentioned several weeks ago, EVERYTHING must go right for this team to compete. You can't expect much when the list of what must go right is an order of magnitude bigger than the list of what can go wrong.

Finally, the ongoing power outage at home is a serious concern. I remain dumbfounded that Dana did nothing to balance the lineup.

It's still just two games, but we are concerned because the results seem very familiar.

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I'm most perplexed why we did not get rid of Meyers at the very least in the offseason, especially when we received Joey Loperfido who can play Centerfield.

Meyers as an experiment is basically done. I don't think Joey brings anything less to the table offensively, and he is a lefty hitter and has higher upside. That makes Jake expendable.

"Yordan Alvarez homers…..as the Astros lose 6-2."

Oh my how the turn tables

the Astros roll out a lineup with 6 all-stars

but it doesn't seem like it

Take the orange tinted glasses off and you'll realize we don't have good players.

We have...

A prime Yordan who's often injured
A prime Paredes
An aging Altuve, Correa, and Walker
And a bunch of young guys who have question marks galore
And a manger who can't even fill in a decent lineup card (pena sitting game 1 and Altuve batting cleanup in game 2 is wild)

If it all clicks and everything falls in line they're pretty good. If it doesn't they're not.

Pena sitting today is mind blowing. As in mind blowingly bad.

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The Astros against Reid Detmers: Altuve 4, Alvarez DH, Paredes 5, Correa 6, Walker 3, Smith 9, Diaz 2, Meyers 8, Matthews 7

Javier RHP

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) March 28, 2026

Pena was too good yesterday. Has to sit today.

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Loperfido got on base too much on opening day, we don't want that in the lineup /joe

100000% not player.

He'll rarely ever start against a lefty FYI

Fire espada

I just can't with Espada. Somebody needs to make the megamind meme with him instead of Dusty…

People finally coming around that Espada is garbage and we missed our chance to strategically sell valuable pieces to gain large hauls of high end prospects?