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1. Hombre BrotaniTo dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost
I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Houston
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the moon you hung"
or you know, won the World Series last year. Especially when that world series win was a cumulation of multiple years of great seasonal play leading up to it. 8 consecutive seasons over .500 ball, 7 of which resulted in playoff appearances. I'll bet on the teams track record than a hiccuup with one bad signing.
I guess if you roll the playoffs into the regular season.
Only 4 teams in the AL have made the ALCS in the last 6 years; Houston, Boston, NY and the Rays and NY has been turfed out 3 times by Houston and not made the series for a long time, unlike the other successful teams.
Yes, Abreu has been a bust, but despite that and the pitcher/Altuve injuries they're eight games over .500. Pretty nice off year.
Some obvious issues -- Altuve hurt, Bregman struggling, Abreu's contract -- but they also have what, without putting in any effort to check, I assume is the best rotation in the AL and they're all under 30.
What this post made me think about is: Because of the nature of scouting, drafting, and developing prospects in baseball compared to basketball and football (years in the minors, taking 18 year old high school pitchers who won't see the majors for 5-6 years, etc), is the "penalty" of having to draft late in rounds when you win a lot of games less of a penalty in baseball than it is in the other sports?
We've seen so many times in the NFL and NBA - teams that draft at the bottom of the rounds all the time eventually see it catch up to them. For my Patriots, the point where being a 20-year dynasty finally ended was when we had a handful of really bad drafts in a row, so we were unable to find starters for cheap money; combined with seeing our quality veterans finally running out of gas, and we didn't have the top-10 pick opportunities to reliably replace stars with stars.
In baseball, that doesn't seem as obvious a constraint.
He's either hiding an injury, or he might have benefitted from the Trashcan Sinatras more than anyone... though that doesn't quite fit the timeline.
If he can snap back to his top form, that would be a huge help.
they missing 3 major league starters and a major league 1B. plenty of the current players were not a top prospect - JP france was 14th round, not a prospect. brandon bielak, 11th rounder, not a prospect. mccormick was a 21st rounder. meyers was an 18th rounder. hunter brown was 5th rounder. framber vaLdez who JUST threw a shutout - game time 2 hr, 5 minute SHUTOUT 0 (remembering roy-o) - and how rare are those these days, was not a prospect. AND almost none of their top prospects have gone anywhere, except mccullers, bregman and kyle tucker, and there was obviously good minor league depth.
i think that those prospect lists are very highly weighted because of where everyone thought they should be when they got drafted and it is all about the supposed "potential" so i look at what the guys are actually DOING not what someone thought they should be doing.
bregman looked like his swing off and he been rolling over a lot although he looked better this homestand. he didn't fall apart when there wasn't no trash can bangs. he was worth 5 WAR just last year, so no to cesar cedeno cydrome
the thing about dumping james click is just weird. VERY weird seeing as how he was doing a great job and people weren't quitting. i have a feeling that mike fast leaving had to do with luhnow and his gang of cheaters/shttttheads. mike is a very good and decent man and i would guess he didn't want to deal with those brandon shtttbag win-at-any-cost financebros. mejdal was fired by luhnow who knows why, and elias left for a better job, who can blame him
The Cards are the epitome here I'd think, regularly developing solid players from late picks, lower rounds, etc. For most organizations, lower-round success does look pretty random whenever I've poked around (and I'm sure there are real studies out there). Having the cheapskate feeder teams -- Oak, Mia, Pitt, KC, etc. -- helps.
Houston has a 135 team ERA+. Last year they had a 135 team ERA+ (Verlander helped a lot with that one). In 2021, it was 114. Hunter Brown made the top 100 for the first time this preseason. Jose Urquidy barely cracked one top 100 list in 2020 -- which was AFTER his excellent 41 MLB regular season and 10 postseason innings. Nobody else in the 2023 rotation cracked the top 100 once.
yeahyeahyeah, i know, if he's still a "rookie"...
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