2015: The Back To The Future Season

[Quality Start Machine]

Anyone know why Wada hasn't been used?

His slow shit is worse than Haren's or Hendricks', and those two guys haven't been mysteries out there to anybody.

[PenFoe]

Anyone know why Wada hasn't been used?

His slow shit is worse than Haren's or Hendricks', and those two guys haven't been mysteries out there to anybody.

He was warming up in the pen on Sunday, so he's alive at least.

[ChuckD]

Anyone know why Wada hasn't been used?

His slow shit is worse than Haren's or Hendricks', and those two guys haven't been mysteries out there to anybody.

He was warming up in the pen on Sunday, so he's alive at least.

DYK?: Tommy LaStella and Tsuyoshi Wada have never appeared in the same game.

[Saul Goodman]

Anyone know why Wada hasn't been used?

His slow shit is worse than Haren's or Hendricks', and those two guys haven't been mysteries out there to anybody.

He was warming up in the pen on Sunday, so he's alive at least.

DYK?: Tommy LaStella and Tsuyoshi Wada have never appeared in the same game.

That's pretty easy to pull off when one of them is dead.

[SKO]

Justin Grimm is still broken. This is an issue.

[CubFaninHydePark]

Justin Grimm is still broken. This is an issue.

Maybe Neil can give the team all the good innings he didn't throw this season?

[Saul Goodman]

Today was one of those weird days when Fowler/Schwarber/Bryant/Rizzo/Russell go a combined 0-for-18. At least they picked Kyle Hendricks Start Day.

[InternetApex]

Justin Grimm is still broken. This is an issue.

Still throwing 97. Bosio will wizard this. I'm not worried.

[Canadouche]

I was a bit surprised when I saw that Schwarber is having a horrible September. I'm sure he's just going through the same growing pains every hitter experiences as a rookie, but I have a feeling he might not see a ton of starts in October. What's amazing is that a hitter on this team can be having such an attrocious month, and it's not a big deal at all because the rest of the team is so generally solid.

[InternetApex]

I was a bit surprised when I saw that Schwarber is having a horrible September. I'm sure he's just going through the same growing pains every hitter experiences as a rookie, but I have a feeling he might not see a ton of starts in October. What's amazing is that a hitter on this team can be having such an attrocious month, and it's not a big deal at all because the rest of the team is so generally solid.

Versus Lefties he's slashing .148/.220/.278 for the season in 58 PAs. That dog won't hunt. But you know, he's 22 and his swing is just too good not to eventually bring that up to par. Right now, a righty throwing him a fastball is suicide. So they've stopped doing that and look out below.

[SKO]

I was a bit surprised when I saw that Schwarber is having a horrible September. I'm sure he's just going through the same growing pains every hitter experiences as a rookie, but I have a feeling he might not see a ton of starts in October. What's amazing is that a hitter on this team can be having such an attrocious month, and it's not a big deal at all because the rest of the team is so generally solid.

Versus Lefties he's slashing .148/.220/.278 for the season in 58 PAs. That dog won't hunt. But you know, he's 22 and his swing is just too good not to eventually bring that up to par. Right now, a righty throwing him a fastball is suicide. So they've stopped doing that and look out below.

Yeah, hopefully Schwarber warms back up and makes his adjustments in these last 11 games before the postseason. Thankfully with Castro's long-awaited hot streak, Jorge coming off the DL seemingly reinvigorated and hitting for power, and Javy 2.0, Joe is going to have any number of combinations and substitutions he can use in any playoff game and have a lineup with 8 pretty good hitters in it regardless.

[InternetApex]

I was a bit surprised when I saw that Schwarber is having a horrible September. I'm sure he's just going through the same growing pains every hitter experiences as a rookie, but I have a feeling he might not see a ton of starts in October. What's amazing is that a hitter on this team can be having such an attrocious month, and it's not a big deal at all because the rest of the team is so generally solid.

Versus Lefties he's slashing .148/.220/.278 for the season in 58 PAs. That dog won't hunt. But you know, he's 22 and his swing is just too good not to eventually bring that up to par. Right now, a righty throwing him a fastball is suicide. So they've stopped doing that and look out below.

Yeah, hopefully Schwarber warms back up and makes his adjustments in these last 11 games before the postseason. Thankfully with Castro's long-awaited hot streak, Jorge coming off the DL seemingly reinvigorated and hitting for power, and Javy 2.0, Joe is going to have any number of combinations and substitutions he can use in any playoff game and have a lineup with 8 pretty good hitters in it regardless.

And next year... hopefully Schwarber 2.0 is a total motherfucker who hits 50.

[Chuck to Chuck]

I was a bit surprised when I saw that Schwarber is having a horrible September. I'm sure he's just going through the same growing pains every hitter experiences as a rookie, but I have a feeling he might not see a ton of starts in October. What's amazing is that a hitter on this team can be having such an attrocious month, and it's not a big deal at all because the rest of the team is so generally solid.

Versus Lefties he's slashing .148/.220/.278 for the season in 58 PAs. That dog won't hunt. But you know, he's 22 and his swing is just too good not to eventually bring that up to par. Right now, a righty throwing him a fastball is suicide. So they've stopped doing that and look out below.

Yeah, hopefully Schwarber warms back up and makes his adjustments in these last 11 games before the postseason. Thankfully with Castro's long-awaited hot streak, Jorge coming off the DL seemingly reinvigorated and hitting for power, and Javy 2.0, Joe is going to have any number of combinations and substitutions he can use in any playoff game and have a lineup with 8 pretty good hitters in it regardless.

And next year... hopefully Schwarber 2.0 is a total motherfucker who hits 50.

Last 25 games:
.154 /.267/.374/.640 with a .154 BABIP.  33 Ks, 14 BBs.  Oh, and 6 HRs.  That's a 39 HR pace.

He'll be fine.

[Slaky]

I was a bit surprised when I saw that Schwarber is having a horrible September. I'm sure he's just going through the same growing pains every hitter experiences as a rookie, but I have a feeling he might not see a ton of starts in October. What's amazing is that a hitter on this team can be having such an attrocious month, and it's not a big deal at all because the rest of the team is so generally solid.

Versus Lefties he's slashing .148/.220/.278 for the season in 58 PAs. That dog won't hunt. But you know, he's 22 and his swing is just too good not to eventually bring that up to par. Right now, a righty throwing him a fastball is suicide. So they've stopped doing that and look out below.

Yeah, hopefully Schwarber warms back up and makes his adjustments in these last 11 games before the postseason. Thankfully with Castro's long-awaited hot streak, Jorge coming off the DL seemingly reinvigorated and hitting for power, and Javy 2.0, Joe is going to have any number of combinations and substitutions he can use in any playoff game and have a lineup with 8 pretty good hitters in it regardless.

Somehow Javy 2.0 is a .300 hitter and gold glove defender. Goddamn it what an org.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Schwarber's just in a down cycle.  He'll have cycled out of it by the time the playoffs start.  Of course the same thinking might suggest that Bryant will be cooling off (dude's been hitting fucking everything lately it seems).  The long and the short of it seems to be that they're suddenly so deep that so long as everyone's not in a down cycle at the same time (knock on wood) that there should always be a handful of guys to carry the team (last night notwithstanding).  I mean, Rizzo was in his third mini-slump of the year the weekend/week of Philadelphia/Pittsburgh and he hasn't exactly come all the way back, and so I expect that to change in the coming days.