The Astros and their effect on the AL East and West

[digiblader]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/sports/baseball/in-last-astros-are-affecting-the-race-in-the-al.html?ref=sports&_r=0

 

Why they say that the Angels might get hot at the end of the article was idiotic--especially considering the Angels are 10 games under .500, and have an entire AL East to fight.

 

Also note that the Astros are playing much better since June started.

 

FYI:

Astros vs.:

 

EAST

Boston 0-4

NYY 1-2

O's 1-2

Rays (Not yet)

Jays (Not yet)

 

CENTRAL

White Sox 3-1 (wow, the White Sox stink!)

Detroit 1-6

KC 2-4

Cleveland 1-2

Minnesota (not yet)

 

WEST

Oakland 0-9(only reason Texas hasn't run away with the division--Oakland's a .500 team otherwise)

Texas 1-5 (no surprise here)

Seattle 5-4

LA Angels 7-3 (WTF? All that money and they can't beat the stinking Astros?)

 

Based on the numbers, the real benefactors of Houston in the AL are:

 

Oakland

Texas

Detroit

Boston

 

We'll see what the Jays and Rays do against the Astros in the next month.

[Wilnercibia]

We should sweep them every series

[JugglingPitches]

I think we have 8 games against Houston? Going 7-1 would be a real boost.

 

I just hope the Jays don't look at it as an easy part of the schedule and try to coast and take it for granted that they're going to win. The Astros may suck but they're still a major league team capable of winning if teams look past them.

[Deadpool]

I just hope the Jays don't look at it as an easy part of the schedule and try to coast and take it for granted that they're going to win. The Astros may suck but they're still a major league team capable of winning if teams look past them.

 

I don't think that's going to be a problem... If you start to trail the Astros in game one, I think you start to re-focus pretty quickly.

[digiblader]

I mean, look at that awful roster in Houston!

 

By the time we face them, Lawrie and Reyes will be back. And Bud Norris will be elsewhere.

[blackjays21]

Jordan Lyles is pretty good though. Hopefully we don't have to see him, that would be very bad.

 

I look forward to it.. I would like to see Jordan Lyles.

[JohnnyLonghorn]

Hilarious that the Angels have been owned by the Astros this year. I'm sure they graciously accepted Houston in their division at first but it has backfired completely, especially since the As and Rangers have ran through them, as expected.

[TheHurl]

Astros xFIP this year 4.42, Jays xFIP this year 4.36.

 

some other numbers

K/9 Astros 6.78, Jays 6.88,

BB/9 Astros 3.49, Jays 3.41

GB% Astros 44.7, Jays 43.5

HR/9 Astros 1.29, Jays 1.23

 

When you just do starters the Astros are ahead of the Jays in every single one of those categories except for BB/9 where the Stros are 3.45 to the Jays 3.42.

 

I know someone will say that the Jays won't be running out Ortiz, Jenkins or Romero's which bring down our numbers, however the Astros now won't be running out Humber or Peacock who kill their peripherals too. Essentially the Astros starting pitching which you guys are making fun of...is equal to or better than the Jays starting pitching to date.

[KSaw]

I think we have 8 games against Houston? Going 7-1 would be a real boost.

 

We play them 7 times. We have 4 at home during the home stand that follows the all star break. Later in the year we have 3 in Houston.

[KSaw]

6-1 would be great. 5-2 acceptable. A sweep is possible. 4-3 or worse would be a failure.

[baseballsss]

Has anyone else noticed everytime people on this forum say..o we should kill this starter this starter sucks blah blah blah they end up owning us. Even when we have a random pitcher going thats suppose to suck he ends up pitching better then half the otheer SP that play. All in all you guys really suck at predicting s***.

[TheHurl]

Has anyone else noticed everytime people on this forum say..o we should kill this starter this starter sucks blah blah blah they end up owning us. Even when we have a random pitcher going thats suppose to suck he ends up pitching better then half the otheer SP that play. All in all you guys really suck at predicting s***.

 

it's the reason that Vegas makes a higher percentage on baseball compared to any other sport. If they could ever get football money bet on to baseball, sportsbooks would be Mayweather rich