2025 Astros

[AggiesAreWe]

Going to need to go 6-0 this coming week to have any chance of winning division.

Probably need at worse 4-2 to get Wild Card spot.

This one is basically over. 7-0 in 2nd. 2 out, 2 strike Grand Slam. smh

[rupert3]

Blubaugh looking good.  Maybe we should have more bullpen games 

[Eazy]

What’s crazy is literally nobody in the AL had clinched a playoff spot until yesterday.  Toronto is finally in.   6 games to go.  6 teams trying to get 5 spots. 

[Eazy]

Houston also has the disadvantage of not having the tiebreaker against anyone.  They are only 29-37 since July 7.  A 5-1 finish should get them in for sure.  Good chance at 4-2.  But that ridiculous 4 game sweep by Oakland in late July sure looms large.  Astros are almost as painful to watch as the Texans right now.  

[AggiesAreWe]

17 minutes ago, Eazy said:

Houston also has the disadvantage of not having the tiebreaker against anyone.  They are only 29-37 since July 7.  A 5-1 finish should get them in for sure.  Good chance at 4-2.  But that ridiculous 4 game sweep by Oakland in late July sure looms large.  Astros are almost as painful to watch as the Texans right now.  

That 4 gamer really sticks out like a sore thumb for sure.

Need to pay them back starting tomorrow night.

I agree that Houston has to go at minimum 4-2 to make playoffs.

[baddog]

3 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

That 4 gamer really sticks out like a sore thumb for sure.

Need to pay them back starting tomorrow night.

I agree that Houston has to go at minimum 4-2 to make playoffs.

Mariners have 3 with the Rockies, then 3 with the Dodgers. So I’m saying there’s a chance…..lol

[AggiesAreWe]

Brandon Walter became the fourth Astros pitcher to undergo elbow surgery this year.

Also, Pena will not be in the lineup for tonight's game.

[Eazy]

This team is just limping to the finish line.  I don’t see how they would win a playoff series if they can even get in. 

[spidersal]

Stick a fork in them their done!

[baddog]

2 minutes ago, spidersal said:

Stick a fork in them their done!

You’ve been waiting all year to say that. Congratulations. You got your “told you so” moment.

Actually, you’re wrong.

[AggiesAreWe]

It's quite simple, Astros have to win their remaining 5 games to have any chance of making playoffs. They are a game back of Cleveland and Detroit but in all actuality they are two back due to both teams having the tiebreaker over Houston.

Another loss and it will take nothing short of a miracle (Detroit to keep losing) for Houston to make post season. 

[AggiesAreWe]

Luis Garcia will have some sort of surgery and miss all of 2026.

Also, Hader still isn’t throwing but imaging shows the shoulder is healing. Alvarez is working out in the weight room but not running yet

[Eazy]

Detroit and Houston are competing to see who can lose the most games this week and still make the playoffs.  

[spidersal]

Glad to see them healing up and hopefully they can help the Astros next season

IMO they better find a GM. This one did little during the off season to bring in quality players. They started the season with very few decent pitchers and finished the season that way and they simply couldn’t hit with RISP  They simply played bad after the all star break

 

Absolutely no excuses about injuries, they happen to every team and don’t bother me with stats because it is about which teams win more games

[AggiesAreWe]

9 hours ago, spidersal said:

Glad to see them healing up and hopefully they can help the Astros next season

IMO they better find a GM. This one did little during the off season to bring in quality players. They started the season with very few decent pitchers and finished the season that way and they simply couldn’t hit with RISP  They simply played bad after the all star break

 

Absolutely no excuses about injuries, they happen to every team and don’t bother me with stats because it is about which teams win more games

See, this is just another stupid take from you.

Houston set an MLB all time record with the most IL's in a single season. 30!!! No team has EVER experienced that kind of turnover. There maybe is 2-3 teams in the MLB that could have weathered that kind of storm and still be battling for a playoff spot with 4 games remaining. Vast majority of the teams would have been done by the end of July or August.

Houston had 3 starting pitchers miss basically the whole season. Had their best closer miss 3/4 of the season. Three of their better relievers miss almost half the season. They had to bring up some minor league arms just to get them through some rough patches. 

As for every day players, Alvarez missed 3/4 of the season. Pena and Meyers missed two months, Parades missed almost 2 months. That's 4 of your best bats gone for the bulk of the season. Couple that with the loss of Bregman and Tucker to FA and trade, that is a huge loss to the Astros lineup. 

There is no way anyone that has any kind of baseball knowledge dismiss the fact that Houston's season was decimated with injuries. So many of the baseball experts on the tube have acknowledged that fact countless times this season and have praised the Astros for still being in the playoff hunt.

Yes, it is about wins and losses. Pretty dang hard to win games the way the Astros had to win this season.

I guarantee that if you knew that Houston would have this kind of injury plagued season, you would have said they will win 70 games at best and not sniff the playoffs. At least a sane person could see that.

Yet according to you, none of that matters.

 

[A BUC 77]

The injury deal is a bit perplexing.  Is it just bad luck, or is it the players are not stretching enough, not keeping in good shape, bad trainers, bad doctors?  They misdiagnosed Alverez.  

[spidersal]

I knew it. It didn’t take you long to make excuses. Correct me if I am wrong, but weren’t the players they called up pros

They had 1 reliable starter Brown and 1 reliable closer Hader and that was basically it on the mound

Pena good season hitting, Meyers his best ever Alvarez good hitter but stays injured Altuve had an off year. Other than those no one stepped up at the plate especially with RISP

Simply face the fact that they didn’t get it done this season. They did not play well enough These puppy dog tears of injuries and excuses are getting ridiculous 

[AggiesAreWe]

28 minutes ago, A BUC 77 said:

The injury deal is a bit perplexing.  Is it just bad luck, or is it the players are not stretching enough, not keeping in good shape, bad trainers, bad doctors?  They misdiagnosed Alverez.  

That's a very good question. I have pondered it myself.

Lot's of things have to happen in order to have 30 IL's in a season. That's just crazy.

[navydawg31]

Houston Astros gave their all this season. But please clean house on the medical staff! Dr, trainers, and I would go as far as to say the S&C staff as well… The Astros had the worse injury bug in any professional sports team history. 

[AggiesAreWe]

Hunter Brown is the sixth pitcher in Astros history to throw at least 185 innings in a season and finish with an ERA lower than 2.45. Roger Clemens was the last person to do it in 2005 -

[AggiesAreWe]

2 minutes ago, navydawg31 said:

Houston Astros gave their all this season. But please clean house on the medical staff! Dr, trainers, and I would go as far as to say the S&C staff as well… The Astros had the worse injury bug in any professional sports team history. 

Lookout, you might be labeled a little crying puppy dog with those kind of "realistic" comments.

[navydawg31]

1 hour ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Lookout, you might be labeled a little crying puppy dog with those kind of "realistic" comments.

I see those comments… just gotta laugh at the ignorance and don’t acknowledge morons… 

side note what a Historic Run the Astros have been on. Every year there is a hiccup… this year it is. I always wanna see the Astros win it all but with the injuries tbh I don’t even think we would have gotten out of round 1. With that being said much needed rest and rehab is in store for the Astros. Hoping Crane decides to spend a little $$$ this offseason.