Month: April 2021

Daily dose of Yordan (Game 4)

At bat 1: 2 pitch double play

At bat 2: 9 pitch walk

At bat 3: 2 pitch groundout

At bat 4: 3 pitch popout

At bat 5: 5 pitch groundout

Obviously once again, the 0-4 for Yordan looks pretty bad in the statline, and I’d say he did look a bit tired today. I feel like he wasn’t that aggressive today, or he was aggressive on the wrong pitches, as he was swinging early, but was swinging on pitches that became hard hit ground balls. However, those groundouts helped show him running on the bases, which looked clean and is something to be happy about. The 9 pitch walk was also very impressive, he went down 1-2 and worked the walk with 3 foul balls in between. All in all, a day where Yordan may have not produced, but showed what we all want from him (Hard hit, discipline, at least average baserunning). He’ll be fine.

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Post Game Thread (Apr 4, 2021): Astros (4-0) @ Athletics (0-4)

Line Score – Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
HOU 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 9 11 0
OAK 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 4 1

Box Score

OAK AB R H RBI BB SO BA
CF Canha 4 2 2 0 0 0 .286
1B Olson 4 0 0 1 0 1 .286
2B Lowrie 4 0 1 1 0 1 .273
DH Moreland 2 0 0 0 1 1 .111
LF Kemp, T 1 0 0 0 0 0 .143
3B Chapman, M 3 0 1 0 1 1 .091
RF Pinder 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300
RF Piscotty 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000
P Tom 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000
SS Andrus 3 0 0 0 0 1 .071
C Garcia, Ar 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000
OAK IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Manaea 4.2 6 5 5 3 4 101-67 9.64
Kolarek 0.2 2 3 2 0 0 16-10 36.00
Petit 1.2 2 1 1 0 0 26-18 3.86
Wendelken 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 10-5 0.00
Tom 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 20-13 0.00
HOU AB R H RBI BB SO BA
2B Altuve 5 1 1 0 0 0 .375
RF Tucker 5 1 1 1 0 1 .176
3B Bregman 4 0 2 0 0 1 .500
3B García, R 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.000
DH Alvarez 4 1 0 0 1 0 .294
1B Gurriel 4 1 3 2 0 0 .467
SS Correa 4 0 1 0 0 1 .235
CF Straw 1 2 0 1 3 0 .143
C Castro, J 4 2 1 2 0 0 .250
LF McCormick 4 1 1 3 0 2 .286
HOU IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Urquidy 4.1 4 2 2 2 5 101-65 4.15
Bielak 4.2 0 0 0 0 4 44-30 0.00

Scoring Plays

Inning Event Score
T1 Kyle Tucker homers (1) on a fly ball to center field. 0-1
B1 Jed Lowrie doubles (1) on a line drive to right fielder Kyle Tucker. Mark Canha scores. 1-1
T2 Jason Castro homers (1) on a fly ball to left center field. Myles Straw scores. 1-3
T3 Yuli Gurriel doubles (1) on a sharp fly ball to center fielder Mark Canha. Jose Altuve scores. Yordan Alvarez scores. 1-5
B5 Matt Olson grounds out sharply, second baseman Jose Altuve to first baseman Yuli Gurriel. Mark Canha scores. 2-5
T6 Myles Straw grounds into a force out, shortstop Elvis Andrus to second baseman Jed Lowrie. Yuli Gurriel scores. Carlos Correa out at 2nd. Myles Straw to 1st. 2-6
T6 Chas McCormick homers (1) on a fly ball to center field. Myles Straw scores. Jason Castro scores. 2-9

Highlights

Description Length HD
Kyle Tucker belts a solo home run in the 1st inning 0:45 HD
Jed Lowrie rips an RBI double to right field 0:52 HD
Jason Castro hits a two-run home run in the 2nd 0:30 HD
Chad Pinder makes a stellar catch at the wall 0:47 HD
Yuli Gurriel rips a two-run double in the 3rd inning 0:44 HD
Mark Canha scores on Matt Olson’s ground ball 0:41 HD
Yuli Gurriel makes it home on a fielder’s choice 0:25 HD
Chas McCormick belts his first-career home run 0:52 HD
A fan makes an epic catch in the stands 0:19 HD

Decisions

Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Save
Bielak (1-0, 0.00) Manaea (0-1, 9.64)

Game ended at 6:24 PM.

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Where is the best place to sell 90’s era trading cards and toys?

Fellow Houston Folk,

Who knows where the best place to sell baseball/football/basketball/pokemon cards, sports figurines and toys from the 90’s is?

Like many 30 somethings it’s time to move on from some of my old cards and toys and turn them into petty cash instead of keep moving them from house to house. IIRC the market has been low on trading cards but I’m sure there is some value to be had!

I’d rather take them to an actual store instead of going to arduous ebay route so any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in advance and Happy Easter!

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Thoughts on this mock draft + trade for you guys?

https://imgur.com/c3ZXDtC

https://imgur.com/u99lTwo

I went with BPA depending on what players the AI picked for the other 31 teams. I’m also drafting on the assumption Watson will not be playing this season and potentially longer/not for the Texans. Essentially I viewed Tyrod Taylor as your QB this year. I felt like Davis was BPA at that pick and the last two times Tyrod has started over a rookie, they won rookie of the year. And yeah, the only trade I made was 233 for 244 & 246.

Granted I’m not a texans fan so I might be off. Lemme know what you think.

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