Maybe Brown won't return with 95-96 and will suck going forward. That said, Brown was pretty good in 2024 as well as last year. 2022...now that was a weird year as it seemed like every mistake pitch he threw ended up in the bleachers. He's had three years in which his strikeouts and walks have looked like a good pitcher. Maybe Brown's ERA was a little fluky last year, but he's been a pretty good pitcher for more than 1 year. In 2024 and 2025, it is pretty obvious Brown decided to throw more fastballs inside (or got better control) which kept RHBs from getting the meat of the bat on the ball to fix his homer problem he had in 2022.
I don't think it's talked about nearly enough how bad our international signing and development has been the last decade. We have been getting absolutely nothing from that side of the farm. When Luhnow first took over we made a lot of hay on the pitching side from 2013-2015, and then mostly a wasteland.
There's a fine line between saying what you're supposed to and insulting the fanbase intelligence. Dana has been insulting our intelligence the moment he took the job. This is not one of those "just say the right thing" situations, isay you're worried and there are things we need to solve, quickly. I remember when Joe Girardi was asked about playing Chris Carter at 1B every night, and he was sucking badly. He answered very candidly "he's what we have." Acknowledge the guy sucks and that you have no other choice. If you suck, some candor actually works better than lying.
As dire as it is, the Astros still project as a 46 fwar team if they meet their projections moving forward; given their 16-27 record that would have them end up with ~82 wins. If they add at the deadline and get some luck they could potentially be an 87 win wild card team but that's their absolute ceiling at this point. Of course that would mean their major disappointments (namely Yainer Diaz, Jeremy Pena, Hunter Brown, and Tatsuya Imai) have to rebound right quick. Astros have played like a .400 team but have a .372 win %; that's only 1 win difference at this point but still they've had bad luck on top of bad performance. Astros chance of making the playoffs sits at 8%. It's over.
Right now is the most demoralized I've seen the Astros fanbase since 2012 or 2013, crazy how fast everything collapsed
I find it curious anyone cares about what Dana Brown says publicly as much as you do ... especially when it matters so little to me.
I know personally I have been spoiled by the success for the past decade, but this drop off is BAD and really good SP`s does not grow on trees. IMO will be sellers at the deadline, the only question is who. Our farm system needs to be built back up, we need our international scouts to find the next Yordan. I am emotionally attached to Pena, but he may be on the block, Walker is having a good year, could he be bait? Pareadas? IMO were in a tough spot, if we didn't have all the injuries I think we would be a mediocre to above average team, I am not saying blow this thing up, but some hard choices will have to be made I don't want to be an average team who gets into the PS and cant get out of the first series................as a wishy-washy fan, it's hard to watch the Astros like I normally do, it's a nightly event normally, but last night I made it 3 innings before bowing out
Brown is good. Arrighetti is good. Lambert and Burrows looks like they can be good. I think Imai will be good. Hopefully Hader will still be good. It's not that bleak, but at some point players need to stop getting hurt and these players need to get healthy and show some consistency.
We replaced one mental midget with another!?! How could you know in the offseason? I didn't know...you didn't know...who the hell knew?
