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Astros GM Dana Brown told the team's pregame radio show that Yordan Alvarez will play on Tuesday with Double-A Corpus Christi, be off Wednesday and then try to play back-to-back games in Corpus on Thursday and Friday.

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 17, 2025

On the team’s pregame radio show on @SportsTalk790, GM Dana Brown said Luis Garcia would likely make one more rehab start, with McCullers likely to join the rotation first.

— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) August 17, 2025

Great, because we need to lose more games by the second inning.

Quo Vadis? said:

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Speaking of slumps, Kyle Tucker only xbh have been 1 HR and 3 doubles since the start of July, and only has 6 singles this month.

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He has always been streaky. His main problem for us is that he was pretty bad during the playoffs, and it was not a small sample size.

I guess there's always hope for that to change, but at some point you're just not a good postseason guy and it doesn't matter how good you were during the regular season. See Biggio & Bagwell. The crazy thing is that Tucker already has as many postseason AB as both of those guys combined.

Dana Brown said there is a possibility Yordan Alvarez could return to the Astros' lineup in the back-half of the series in Baltimore next weekend, but it sounded more like they were targeting the homestand. https://t.co/Ze5kUBDKzE

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) August 17, 2025

It's nice to see JP back in the lineup.

Ag_07 said:

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AggiEE said:

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Espada has a philosophy that adds wear and tear and increases the likelihood of the leverage guys getting hurt.

Every outing is a crap shoot.
Multiple innings, high pitch counts, high stress pitches all increase the risk.

Espada treats 4 run games like save situations pitching Hader and Abreu instead of Sousa and Okert.

He pitches them 2 innings. He has them warm up in blowouts.

Espada injured Hader

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I'm trying to figure out how this got 5 stars.

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Because it's just facts?

We've had the worst injuries of any team in baseball. Hader isn't an isolated incident. He's just the last in a long string of injuries due to completely mismanaging players.

It's not so much the volume of innings in Hader's case as it is the stretches of two inning outings when throughout his entire career he's been vocal about only doing those on occasion. He really should be a one inning guy.

Rushing Meyers and Parades into the lineup after they've expressed discomfort is also another problem with his management.

This isn't just some "bad luck" on behalf of the Astros this season

10 pitch 1st for Javier.

Nice and efficient by CJ.

JP3 returns the favor.

AggiEE said:

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Ag_07 said:

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AggiEE said:

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Espada has a philosophy that adds wear and tear and increases the likelihood of the leverage guys getting hurt.

Every outing is a crap shoot.
Multiple innings, high pitch counts, high stress pitches all increase the risk.

Espada treats 4 run games like save situations pitching Hader and Abreu instead of Sousa and Okert.

He pitches them 2 innings. He has them warm up in blowouts.

Espada injured Hader

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I'm trying to figure out how this got 5 stars.

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Because it's just facts?

We've had the worst injuries of any team in baseball. Hader isn't an isolated incident. He's just the last in a long string of injuries due to completely mismanaging players.

It's not so much the volume of innings in Hader's case as it is the stretches of two inning outings when throughout his entire career he's been vocal about only doing those on occasion. He really should be a one inning guy.

Rushing Meyers and Parades into the lineup after they've expressed discomfort is also another problem with his management.

This isn't just some "bad luck" on behalf of the Astros this season

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Not seeing the facts here. Hader, for instance, was on record with the Brewers that he would not pitch 2 inning outings because they would not give him a long term deal. When the Astros committed to 5 years he was completely open to 2 innings.

Sanchez in a 0-18 stretch. Altuve 2 for his last 19 (with some walks ameliorating it).

3-2 whiff and a semi hanging breaking pitch middle middle.

iamtheglove said:

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AggiEE said:

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Ag_07 said:

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AggiEE said:

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Espada has a philosophy that adds wear and tear and increases the likelihood of the leverage guys getting hurt.

Every outing is a crap shoot.
Multiple innings, high pitch counts, high stress pitches all increase the risk.

Espada treats 4 run games like save situations pitching Hader and Abreu instead of Sousa and Okert.

He pitches them 2 innings. He has them warm up in blowouts.

Espada injured Hader

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I'm trying to figure out how this got 5 stars.

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Because it's just facts?

We've had the worst injuries of any team in baseball. Hader isn't an isolated incident. He's just the last in a long string of injuries due to completely mismanaging players.

It's not so much the volume of innings in Hader's case as it is the stretches of two inning outings when throughout his entire career he's been vocal about only doing those on occasion. He really should be a one inning guy.

Rushing Meyers and Parades into the lineup after they've expressed discomfort is also another problem with his management.

This isn't just some "bad luck" on behalf of the Astros this season

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Not seeing the facts here. Hader, for instance, was on record with the Brewers that he would not pitch 2 inning outings because they would not give him a long term deal. When the Astros committed to 5 years he was completely open to 2 innings.

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And the reason he wasn't willing to pitch two innings is due to injury risk.

Something the Astros and Espada apparently have no clue how to manage

HELL YES

linkdude said:

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Yordan Alvarez will report to Corpus Christi on Tuesday to start a rehab assignment, Joe Espada said. He’ll DH on Tuesday.

— Matt Kawahara (@matthewkawahara) August 17, 2025

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where is todd kalas?

Heineken-Ashi said:

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Orioles daddy is injured. They should be relieved. Yordan absolutely owns them.

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Think you mean the Red Sox. he's career .237 vs Baltimore

Biggio is such a great guy to do these interviews. You'd never guess how elite he was just listening to him talk.

Probably just referencing the 3-HR game

iamtheglove said:

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AggiEE said:

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Ag_07 said:

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AggiEE said:

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Espada has a philosophy that adds wear and tear and increases the likelihood of the leverage guys getting hurt.

Every outing is a crap shoot.
Multiple innings, high pitch counts, high stress pitches all increase the risk.

Espada treats 4 run games like save situations pitching Hader and Abreu instead of Sousa and Okert.

He pitches them 2 innings. He has them warm up in blowouts.

Espada injured Hader

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I'm trying to figure out how this got 5 stars.

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Because it's just facts?

We've had the worst injuries of any team in baseball. Hader isn't an isolated incident. He's just the last in a long string of injuries due to completely mismanaging players.

It's not so much the volume of innings in Hader's case as it is the stretches of two inning outings when throughout his entire career he's been vocal about only doing those on occasion. He really should be a one inning guy.

Rushing Meyers and Parades into the lineup after they've expressed discomfort is also another problem with his management.

This isn't just some "bad luck" on behalf of the Astros this season

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Not seeing the facts here. Hader, for instance, was on record with the Brewers that he would not pitch 2 inning outings because they would not give him a long term deal. When the Astros committed to 5 years he was completely open to 2 innings.

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Don't think whether Hader approves of pitching 2 innings or not is the point he is making.

There are 5 guys in the pen that Espada trusts (for good reason) and they have been used extensively. The overuse is starting to be noticeable. See Sousa last night.

Welcome to the show

CJ clean through 2.

Hard for me to not just smile listening to biggio in the booth

Stare at the FB down dickville. Swing at the one 7" inside.

Never change Yainer. Never change.

Safe

He looked safe live. And not particularly close

And he beats it out easy. Everyone but the guy making the call could see it.

Yainer slow but not that slow

We meet again RISP.

Yeah everyone in the stadium knew he was safe except the ump

Time to hang a crooked number on man bun

Need a wild pitch

Good play and throw by the SS. Close

I thought melton was fast? How did he not beat that out?

Henderson denies Melton a hit and rib

Damn. What a play by Henderson