Agree with the general considerations here. But there is one thing I haven't heard anyone talk about yet. And that is the Astros are losing once again at Minute Maid Park. Pitching and offense are struggling there, just like last year. Now, we don't yet have any road games to compare these games to, but we will. And it will interesting to see what that looks like. I'm not convinced that last year's problems were random chance. And it certainly isn't something physical about the park itself because only the Astros have been affected. Although let's hope whatever it was it is gone away and these four games were indeed randomness at work.
This series for me has raised even more questions about why we didn’t keep Maton and Stanek. I get letting Hector go get more money as an 8th inning set up guy or a closer, but if we don’t see more reliable middle relief, it’s going to cost Crane more to replace those guys than it would have been to keep them.
Agree with the general considerations here. But there is one thing I haven't heard anyone talk about yet. And that is the Astros are losing once again at Minute Maid Park. Pitching and offense are struggling there, just like last year. Now, we don't yet have any road games to compare these games to, but we will. And it will interesting to see what that looks like. I'm not convinced that last year's problems were random chance. And it certainly isn't something physical about the park itself because only the Astros have been affected. Although let's hope whatever it was it is gone away and these four games were indeed randomness at work.
This series for me has raised even more questions about why we didn’t keep Maton and Stanek. I get letting Hector go get more money as an 8th inning set up guy or a closer, but if we don’t see more reliable middle relief, it’s going to cost Crane more to replace those guys than it would have been to keep them.
I can even set letting Stanek go. But we should have definitely kept Maton.