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Title: Final Home Game
Post by: HudsonHawk on September 28, 2016, 10:06:55 am
Thinking about heading over to the yard for Closing Day.  Anyone else interested?
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: NeilT on September 28, 2016, 02:13:02 pm
I went last night, and had already psyched myself for it being my last game of the season. 
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: JimR on September 29, 2016, 09:44:56 am
the personnel losses this team encountered were too much to overcome. the Astros did well to hang in as long as they did.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: Mr. Happy on September 29, 2016, 09:51:53 am
the personnel losses this team encountered were too much to overcome. the Astros did well to hang in as long as they did.

I absolutely agree. If you would have told me that the Astros would still be alive right up to the last week of the season without Keuchel and McCullers for the last six weeks of the season, I'd have bet money against that, and I don't bet.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: juliogotay on September 29, 2016, 11:21:03 am
I absolutely agree. If you would have told me that the Astros would still be alive right up to the last week of the season without Keuchel and McCullers for the last six weeks of the season, I'd have bet money against that, and I don't bet.

Yes. Pretty amazing they will finish with about the same record as last year in which they were amazingly healthy all year.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: Reuben on September 29, 2016, 11:46:53 am
Yes. Pretty amazing they will finish with about the same record as last year in which they were amazingly healthy all year.
I was going to joke about Peacock or someone else being injured, but then I remembered that recurring Astro Jed Lowrie, who had started the first month or so blazing hot last year, had that stupid thumb injury, was out for 3 months, and then clearly wasn't himself when he came back. Remember that before Correa came up there was a month or more with Villar as the primary SS. If Lowrie hadn't gotten hurt, he may have slid over to 3B for Correa anyway and still been a productive part of the lineup (with Valbuena at 1B).

But back to the point, yes, the McCullers and Keuchel injuries made it a big uphill climb. Sadly enough, Fiers is your 2016 Astros ERA leader with a 4.48.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: Fredia on September 29, 2016, 02:12:53 pm
fiers needs to go
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: juliogotay on September 29, 2016, 05:32:00 pm
fiers needs to go

I wouldn't mind having him back. He keeps them in a lot of games. Didn't wear out down the stretch.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: VirtualBob on September 29, 2016, 06:35:35 pm
I wouldn't mind having him back. He keeps them in a lot of games. Didn't wear out down the stretch.
Agree. I will be happy to see him return.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: Jacksonian on September 29, 2016, 06:37:54 pm
I wouldn't mind having him back. He keeps them in a lot of games. Didn't wear out down the stretch.

Of the 4 pitchers with enough qualifying innings on the team he threw the fewest innings per start.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: MusicMan on September 29, 2016, 08:28:31 pm
He's utterly replaceable.


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Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: moriartp on September 29, 2016, 08:45:11 pm
He's utterly replaceable.


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I don't disagree, but he's cheap and he's had success in the past. He'll be around next year.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: austro on September 29, 2016, 09:36:42 pm
I don't disagree, but he's cheap and he's had success in the past. He'll be around next year.

I think he's arb eligible, so the "cheap" part may change a bit. Probably not a big risk, but you never know when something wacky might happen there.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: Mr. Happy on September 30, 2016, 08:37:05 am
I hope that we've seen the last of Fiers and Fister.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: JimR on September 30, 2016, 09:06:08 am
I hope that we've seen the last of Fiers and Fister.

Fister ran out of gas. he was great until then.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: MusicMan on September 30, 2016, 09:22:19 am
Fister ran out of gas. he was great until then.

If he runs out of gas with two months to go, I'm not sure how helpful he is.


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Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: JimR on September 30, 2016, 09:27:47 am
If he runs out of gas with two months to go, I'm not sure how helpful he is.


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he was coming off an injury, but you may be right.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: Mr. Happy on September 30, 2016, 11:26:57 am
If he runs out of gas with two months to go, I'm not sure how helpful he is.


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I don't think that he necessarily ran out of gas as regressed to the mean with his marginal stuff.
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: moriartp on September 30, 2016, 01:10:38 pm
I don't think that he necessarily ran out of gas as regressed to the mean with his marginal stuff.
Or both!
Title: Re: Final Home Game
Post by: AstroNut on September 30, 2016, 02:50:33 pm
I get ill watching Fiers pitch for us...