Why Betting on the Astros Now is a Smart Move: A Deep Dive

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00:00Now's the time to be betting the Astros because it's been doom and gloom, but this is a veteran

00:09team and they know what to do.

00:11They flipped the switch in the second half and they know what they've got to figure out

00:15and the kinks they've got to work out.

00:16Oh, the Kyle Tucker situation too, him missing all that time.

00:19That was a real killer for this team, not to mention Verlander and a couple other injuries

00:23that had a pitching staff too.

00:24They lost Javier earlier in the year and let's not forget too, Hunter Brown was abysmal for

00:28the first month of the season too.

00:30So a lot of rotation issues, a lot of health issues all together for that team collectively.

00:35But what you have to always put your stock into is veteran leadership and veteran teams.

00:40And eventually those teams, they know what they've got to do at a certain point in the

00:43season in order to flip that switch, like I said, and get into the playoffs.

00:46Now getting to a point where they're five and a half games up on Seattle, where they

00:49are now, that is an indictment of, of the laziness of the Seattle organization and the

00:54front office.

00:55You know, I've been pounding the table about this for the entire off season to ask Hernandez

01:00left and everybody thought, well, yeah, I'll task Hernandez isn't special player.

01:03And it's not that he's not a special player.

01:04You needed some line of protection for Julio Rodriguez.

01:07The offense was abysmal.

01:08They were number one on the board about a month ago on pitching an ERA and team ERA.

01:12They were 28th in baseball and run scored.

01:15You cannot sustain that kind of model.

01:17You have to score runs to win major league games.

01:20And the Seattle Mariners, frankly, just hadn't done enough to get enough bodies in that line

01:25up and line up protection for Julio Julio struggled.

01:28All of a sudden it gets worse.

01:29You start to pounding it mentally.

01:31And then of course, yeah, eventually you bring in a Rosarito and that's great.

01:34That is going to be there next year, but you've got to bring in more than that too.

01:37You have to assemble an actual offense as good as this pitching is.

01:40I thought it would carry them.

01:41I thought they would be more aggressive in the season besides just a Rosarito, but you

01:45know, it's too little too late right now when you've seen the Astros just blow by everybody.