Houston - Lucas Harrell
turksure
Senior Member
Houston 1 - 0 win, Harrell goes the distance. Bases loaded 9th, closer not needed. That was a great final inning to watch.
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Speaking as a fan or a Houston bettor? As the latter, I'll take a boring 1-2-3 9th over that any day.
I was only following the play-by-play, but saw the clip of the guy getting thrown out at home after the game ended. Pretty good play by the catcher with the throw all the way on the first base side of home plate, although they clearly shouldn't have sent the runner since he was beat fairly easily by a far-from-perfect throw.
Myers has been used three straight days and is unavailable. Anybody else in that bullpen you'd trust here over a guy who's throwing the best game of his carer so far?
And the fact that Houston cares way more about devoloping harrell then they do about beating the padres
Not much of a chance of them keeping a 19million dollar per yr. fat ass aging DH. They might also add JLowrie to the move list.
And keeps getting sat vs lefties.
Starting shortstop for the NL squad?? You'd have a gripe if Desmond, Rollins, Furcal, Cozart or SCastro were on the 60 day disabled list. Do you ever watch these games?
Did you bother to look at any stats before you posted this?
Yeah, how 'bout you??
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/players/playerpage/1098963/jed-lowrie
Ok cool glad were on same page. While I'm here I should ask, did you look at lowries stats and then compare him to the 5 guys you mentioned?
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/playerrankings/positional/regularseason/SS
Ah ok your going by fantasy baseball rankings. That makes sense. Sb's are nice but most of these guys aren't even good base stealers. Castro is 16/25 in sb. That's hurt the cubs overall. I guess I go by things that matter on a baseball field like OPS. Lowries is .842. Next closest in the group is Desmond at .788 (big thanks to coors field the last 4 games to even get him close) Lowrie has easily been the best player of these 5 so far. Not close.
No and hes a career .303 hitter with a .872 OPS as a RH hitter in his career. All the more baffling to me that Houston would sit him recently against LHP when the biggest factors in his struggles this year vs leftys is a .217 BABIP
If they do trade him to the Dodgers, will add on to my SFO future bet...he is a fat ass, batting from three hole twice with men in scoring position and all he can muster is a weak grounder back to the pitcher, and a double play next time up vs. a struggling Garza...bring in the youth, to add to this bright young squad the stro's are developing.
(Updated 07/01/2012)
Lee has a limited no-trade clause that includes a list of 14 teams that he cannot be sent to without his approval; unfortunately for the Dodgers, they are one of those teams. The Astros will now shift to finding a new team who is looking to add the aging slugger and his expiring contract. Lee is hitting .285 on the season though his power swing is largely gone, as he has just five home runs and 29 RBI in 63 games. It would be a surprise to see him finish the season with Houston, so this seems like it will be an ongoing saga........cbsspssports
He didn't have a choice this time. He would have never accepted a trade imo. He was comfortable in Houston.