Manager is dealing with several inexperienced and ineffective players in absence of Jose...
. “He’s doing what’s best for the team. Wherever I can help the team, that’s where I’m going to be. He’s the manager, at the end of the day he gives confidence to all his players. Right now, he’s trying to get us into a groove.”
Houston’s early-season struggles are almost beyond Baker’s control, a combination of suspect roster construction, a pitching staff still searching for consistency and an offense asking one or two players to carry it. Alvarez and Kyle Tucker are Houston’s only two sources of offensive optimism. The team has scored 42 runs in its first nine games. Those two have driven in 22 of them. Alvarez’s third-inning grand slam on Saturday tied the score and seemed to awaken Houston’s slumbering offense.
At the conclusion of Saturday’s game, no team in baseball had more strikeouts than the Astros. Houston had not struck out 15 times in two consecutive games since April 2-3, 2013. Mentioning a defending World Series champion in the same sentence as a 111-loss team is alarming. These putrid performances made it so.
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