So the question is, do you want cheerleaders or fans?
Cheerleaders, no matter how bad your team sucks, have to keep on smiling and cheering.
Fans (short for fanatics) will give kudos when you are great, but will also call you out when you suck.
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Just in case you didn’t know, Diaz has already played in more games in an Astros uniform than Maldy did.
Yainer Diaz in 26 games before going on the IL on 5-3-26
.238/.255/.347/.601 (avg/obp/slg/ops) and only threw out 1 of 14 base stealers (7.1%)
Yainer Diaz in the 67 games since coming off the IL on 6-16-26
.300/.336/.497/.827 and has thrown out 16 of 64, or 25% of base stealers.
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Yainer Diaz in 26 games before going on the IL on 5-3-26
.238/.255/.347/.601 (avg/obp/slg/ops) and only threw out 1 of 14 base stealers (7.1%)
Yainer Diaz in the 67 games since coming off the IL on 6-16-26
.300/.336/.497/.827 and has thrown out 16 of 64, or 25% of base stealers.
Since going 4 for 5 in a game on August 18th, Walker Janek is batting .188 with a .550 OPS, and 26K's in 71 PA's.. that's a 36.6% K rate.. in AA.
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That didn’t take long at all…
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And with that Home Run, Yainer Diaz ties Jason Castro for the most HR by a catcher in Astros history.
If the Astros go 8-7, (83-79) the M’s have to go 14-1 to tie us and they have the tiebreaker.
The Rangers would have to go 12-3 to finish 84-78 (we have the tiebreaker over them, so they have to finish ahead of us)
Astros magic # is 12
Might be time to have that conversation..
Move Altuve to leadoff (where we know he excels anyways)
Move Peña to the 2 hole (if Altuve gets on and Peña hits a ground ball, he’s going to beat out the double play)
Yordan will still get max AB’s in the 3 spot, and a chance at more RBI. We’re not taking advantage of Peña’s speed anyways, because we don’t want him to steal and leave 1B open for a Yordan intentional walk.
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