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If Schiff is gone how will I know who has the green light on 3-0?

I mentioned him yesterday who I thought would be a possibility and two posters didn't even know who I was talking about when I just said Smith lol

He has had three days rest which he hadn't had much of lately so I think it is a solid move to hopefully give us 2 innings. I assume if he is struggling with a control they will have Sandlin or Fedde ready to go

The average division lead the last nine days of July was 1.83 games up... They were hardly dead in the water, more looking forward to 2027, unless you're talking about missing Murakami's bat.

So who had Hagen Smith? Buncha insider wanna bes

Hagen is a dog. Ride and die with your guys. He goes 2 scoreless and we win. Book it.

They played slightly above .500 ball from June 1 on. Not sure what you're doing.

Why didn't he show any of the hits?

I wonder who follows Smith? Fedde? Just figure out a way to win game 1 and give Burke the ball to dominate in game 2.

Brown might get 10+ k's except for Braden go's

But but but they were in first place for most of July and the June schedule was arguably more daunting... that and fact nobody even knows the fate of the 2027 season

can they stop pounding the ball into the damn ground ffs

Picking my kids up from daycare/in-laws house and being charge of them most evenings, it’s definitely not ideal for me lol the 1pm would have been so much better

is Sean Burke's twitter @topshelfburkey? I'm assuming it's him, but he doesn't have many followers and will literally respond to anyone who talks to him lol

2 hours later would be ideal so I don't have to try and get off work early and have time to eat dinner and settle in for the game. Any playoff game not being at evening/night is frankly stupid. Networks not wanting to show concurrent games is just bad for the fans. Yeah they will get more people who want to watch every playoff game, but actually lose some fans during the day games because they couldn't get off work or what have you. Also they should be catering to the fans of the team itself and not these people who watch every baseball game. I'm sure there's orders of magnitude less of those people then there are people who watch every football game.

It was someone with another team and it was money.

Newcomb and Hudson have both been even more vulnerable...house money, house money Astros still have reached 9/11 playoffs and just missed last year by one game at the end.

I think this is a mistake, he been walking more and more batters recently, and next to giving up hits in the first inning, that's the last thing you want from your starter/opener well let's hope he can command his pitches. I wanted Sandlin honestly

I bet the early bird crowd loves it.

Hagen is clearly the best reliever on the team, but having him start game 1 of the playoffs is a big ask for a rookie.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/mlb-playoff-power-rankings-2026-from-the-astros-to-the-dodgers-which-teams-are-ready-to-go-on-a-world-series-run-015615445.html Sox are not 12th lol Still prefer veteran Newcomb opening, but it's whatever...

There's also Tristan Peters putting up a .271 OPS in the 15 games after the All-Star game that made Getz look for a Plan B in CF. The whole team actually turned into a pumpkin in early June, which probably made the FO a bit more risk averse when it came to supplementing this team at the expense of the farm.

Also I do not give a s%*# how advanced stats say Doyle is doing. We're in "ride the performance aberration" territory now. I'll worry about those advanced stats next year and see if his approach changes bear fruit.