Henry Sosa, who came to the Astros last year in the Jeff Keppinger Salary dump – saved that all important 1.1 million. He started 10 games, 5 QS, for the Astros last year, who won 3 of the starts. He lost 2 of the QS, and lasted 6 innings in 8 of the 10 games. He did end up with a 5.23 ERA which last year translated to a 74 OPS+ which ended up being better that J Happ’s 72. Although Happ did throw 152 innings and Sosa 53.1.
This year, in case all yall curious, Happ has worked his way up to a 72 OPS+ after the 6 shutout innings.
Jason Stoffel, the AA righty reliever we also got from San Fran, did terrible last year after the trade, but he’s lookin really good at Corpus this year – 14 games, 17 IP, 1.59 ERA: 3 ER, 10 H, 5 BB, 17 K. He, Kevin Chapman and Wes Musick (an actual Astro draftee) are the only pitchers on the team who don’t stink. All 5 starters are being SLAMMED – Ross Seaton has a deceptively low ERA because 7 of his 22 runs allowed are unearned. Oh yeah – Jared Cosart is pitching well – forgot he only got called up to AAA for 1 start – now that Sosa is gone, maybe he’ll get called up for real.
At AAA, Dallas Keuchel and Jordan Lyles are still pitching well and Aneury just threw 5.2 innings of 2 run ball, so his ERA is now under 5. Jose Valdez, who is closing, looks pretty good with a 2.7 ERA and 1.04 WHIP.
So, all in all, Happ better start pitching a little better.
Tags: Houston Astros
Surrounded by Rangers fans. Such sweetness.
(Actually, they were very well behaved, just enthusiastic).
I love the Rangers, Texas’s Team. At least they get to the big show, and sooner or later if they keep doing that they will win ONE.
sceptor,
far as i’m concerned, the rangers are just another team in the Inferior League, just like the twons or the NT whatsis. i’m completely indifferent to that team. it’s nolan ryan i hate with a burning fiery passion and every time the (swear word) loses, it makes me really smile
Lisa
You shouldn’t store up so much hate inside you, its not very good or healthy.
sceptor
nolan ryan wanted revenge on the astros Organization and he got it in spades. he’s destroyed my baseball team – him and bud selig, who i hate too. it’s pretty hard not to hate 2 people who destroyed something you love. this way, nolan gets to revel in watching something suffer but not die, and revive just enough to get tortured again, and not die. and he can be pretty sure that this will continue long after he dies, so his legacy of repeated suffering destruction at his hands will continue and he can die a happy man.
once the team is gone, i’ll get over it in a year or 2 and it will be as unimportant and irrelevant to me as the rangers or any other DH team. i don’t know if i’ll even care about baseball real too much any more, to be honest, because bud selig is determined to turn baseball into corporate, bland, boring DH ball, which i don’t care about or watch, like softball or soccer.
all good things come to an end – i’ve always heard it, and it’s true i guess. the world has always been run by rich men who treat everyone else as badly as possible without letting them have the power to actually revolt and overturn things – and in the end that doesn’t matter because it will just be run by a different group of rich men with the same objective.
shrug
i’ll never be rich or a man so theree’s nothing i can do about it…
And drayton let it happen
sceptor
dayton wanted 650 mill. period. he didn’t care if it came from satan. and now he goes around pretending that he’s this great philanthropist – bet he hasn’t given away even 1% of that money.