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ALCS Game 6

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David Laurila

6:55

Ladies and gentlemen, a run scored without a ball leaving the yard. Just like the old days! Run and tell old gramps.

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

6:55

KK falling over the dugout fence...

Meg Rowley

6:55

Be careful of your wrist, dude!

5 Run Homer

6:56

What happens to Adames when Wander comes up?

Guest

6:56

Adames had such a nice year, what do you think of his outlook? I'm definitely a fan

Meg Rowley

6:57

I would imagine he moves to second, when the time comes - and that isn't even all of the infield glut in that system.

Adames isn't a free agent until 2025, and they love versatile infield dudes.

David Laurila

6:57

With that curveball, Valdez is a little like late-career Frank Tanana, but with more velo.

Meg Rowley

6:58

Now, your next question is, where do they put Brujan if Adames is at second, and to that I say, I don't know, but gosh are they lousy with options.

6:59

(a moment, I need to locate my water bottle)

Derek

7:01

And where does Lowe, Brandon go?

Meg Rowley

7:02

and if they push Vidal out to center, where does Josh Lowe go?!

Quadrangular

7:02

Tampa seems to recognize their own glut of middle infield talent when considering the trades they've pulled off. When you have depth, utilize it!

Meg Rowley

7:02

Indeed - much like SD, the consolidation tends to net them interesting pieces.

Sea Pancake

7:03

And what even happened to Nate Lowe???

David Laurila

7:03

Just looked at my Twitter feed and someone was bringing up Mike Davis's fantasy points. My first thought was, 'What does a 1980s Oakland A's outfielder have to do with fantasy points?' (Presumably there is a modern-day Mike Davis.)

Meg Rowley

7:03

They pulled him off the CS roster I think? For Diaz, I believe.

Derek

7:04

That Mike Davis is a running back for the Panthers!

Meg Rowley

7:04

(and having a surprisingly good season!)

Wire Fan

7:05

Are the Astros going to end up regretting the Altuve extension?

David Laurila

7:06

I think Altuve has another two or three really good seasons in him.

Meg Rowley

7:07

I don't think he's as bad as this, but it is hard to know what effect the banging scheme had, or how complete our understanding of their cheating is. Tony Adams analysis had him using the scheme less often than others, but it feels naive to look at the drop and not wonder.

he had two good years after '17, and he's running a BABIP 50 points lower than he usually does in a weird season

Jeremy

7:07

Lowe was dropped when Austin Meadows returned from injury.

Meg Rowley

7:08

That's right - thank you.

David Laurila

7:09

Not that the last week-plus portends his future, but Altuve came into tonight 14 for 34 with five home runs over his last nine games.

7:10

Altuve had a 138 wRC+ in 2019, and he's only 30, so I think this year was an outlier.

Meg Rowley

7:11

Another good reason not to cheat - when you just have a weird down year, people assume something more!

Dean P. Simmer

7:11

@David you had me at "late career Frank Tanana"

David Laurila

7:11

Early-career Tanana was smoke.

melon

7:12

Do you buy Correa’s assertion that Altuve didn’t want to be involved? (sorry if this topic has been run into the ground)

David Laurila

7:15

I have no idea if Altuve wanted to be involved or not, but I have had a few hitters tell me they'd rather not know what's coming (as hard as that is to believe). One said that he has a better chance of hitting a slider is he's simply reacting to it, as opposed to sitting on one.

Mick

7:16

Are the cardboard fans in the stadium Padres fans? Or a mix of Rays/Astros?

Meg Rowley

7:17

I think they're more neutral now - first responders and broadcasters - at least behind home.

Hunter Renfroe looks like he could be related to Mike Trout.

7:18

Of potential interest to the group

As the broadcast talks constantly about the shadows, @gschifman actually did some research on it last year (and has some more coming). Read last year's entry:

baseballprospectus.com/news/article/5…

Grant

7:19

If Renfroe and Trout are related, only one of them got the gene that makes you swing at two straight curves in the dirt

Meg Rowley

7:20

heh - I didn't say they are related, just that they look like they could be.

David Laurila

7:24

Kevin Cash is on the short list of baseball's best managers.

Meg Rowley

7:25

He's terrific - and so strange to think he's now the third longest tenured AL manager?