Autumn Dreamin

Astros wish they had catchers that rake like ours.

FWIW. for all the worry about Gio laboring early, the pitch counts are about even now.

Nice hustle, Seby.

First pitch leadoff hits from TA will never get old.

Montero makes $11 million and blew the save for the Astros yesterday. Pressly gave our supposedly bad offense the lead in the 9th, and he's getting paid more than Graveman and Diekman combined. s%*# happens.

Every time Luis tries to be patient at the plate he gets screwed by nonsense calls.

Wow.

Holding the Astros to 3 hits is pretty damn good, especially given that he didn't seem to have his best stuff for most of the day. Sucks that one of the hits was a homer, but he was 1 strike away from 6 scoreless. Great start from the Big Bastard.

Benny gets a double! Eloy gets a double! Yo gets a double! EVERYBODY GETS A DOUBLE!

His H/9 last season was 5.4.

I think it's less about handedness and more about pitch mix. Javier throws like 30% sliders and sliders from RHP are where AV is weakest.

If Vaughn's going to sit a day this week, I don't know why it being today is any more upsetting than it being Sunday or Tuesday or whenever ?‍♀️ Maybe AV's still ramping up with the back thing, maybe they like the matchup better with Sheets for some reason, but in any case one game isn't worth fussing over until and unless it becomes a pattern. The lineup is solid.

To the tune of those forsaken Burger King ads:

Crazy that we won this game when the season apparently ended sometime in the 6th inning.

2023 season is one game long. You didn't get the memo?

He's Dealin', Sheesh.

Lol. Yankees fans noticed White Sox scouts at their game today, and instead of drawing the obvious conclusion (they're scouting the Giants for their next series), they are convincing themselves that we're going to trade them Crochet or Bummer for Florial.

I think there's a nonzero chance he makes either Alberto or Andrus redundant, which would open up a bench spot in the summer.

Per DVS: