In their first season under manager Bo Porter, the Astros lost 111 games last year, worst in the majors.
True.
This year, with a bigger payroll...
Relative. It's like going from $2.13/hour + tips to minimum wage.
...and bright young stars on the roster...
Which roster? Lancaster's? The 40-Man? Hoffman understands how this works, right?
...the Astros are 5-14 (not including Monday's late game), on pace to lose 119 games.
"On Pace To" watch! Not including the win over King Felix and Seattle (which ended around midnight Central), after 12.3% of the season, the Astros are ONPACETO lose more games. Summary judgments after 1/8 of a season. Got it.
That's 1962 Mets territory.
B-R FTW.
Last weekend, Porter blew his lid because an Oakland batter attempted a bunt while leading 7-0 in the first inning. Porter thought it was bush league. You want bush league? Complaining about a bunt in the first inning is bush league.
Subjective. Writing about unwritten rules is the new market inefficiency.
Last year, Porter had to apologize after making an illegal pitching change. He didn't know a basic baseball rule. Porter is in over his head. Start warming up manager-in-waiting Craig Biggio.
Okay. Now this is ridiculous. So here is the whole of the argument for Craig Biggio replacing Bo Porter: (a) Porter got mad at a player for bunting when the opposing team was up 7-0; (b) one time, last year, Porter screwed up a pitching change; (c) in 2013 Porter didn't do enough with a team that had an active payroll under $20m in 2013; (d) 1/8 of the way through the season - Porter is mismanaging a team whose payroll that is slightly less than the fraudulent Marlins, $30m less than the 28th-highest payroll, and roughly one-fifth of the highest payroll in baseball, that can't hit (before last night) and routinely TOOTBLANs themselves out of innings. That's why Porter should go? You just don't go from being groomed to take over the Nationals to being a blithering idiot in 18 months...not with the rosters he's been dealt in that time. Maybe we hold off on anointing Biggio until those "bright young stars" are actually on the roster and Porter actually has a fair shot to figure out if he's in over his head.
