Austin's Astros 290 Blog

Brad Mills made a move in Saturday’s game that didn’t come back to bite him and the television commentators actually called brilliant, though I have to strongly disagree. The move didn’t come back to bite him but that doesn’t mean it was the right move and I want to be ahead of the curve and [...]

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It’s always very difficult to nail down just how much blame lies with the manager on this issue because lefty-righty obsession has been institutional with the Astros for the last few years, from Phil Garner to Cecil Cooper and now to Brad Mills. But as long as he holds the lineup card, he’s the one [...]

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Brad Mills doesn’t get a break here, even on a week when he takes two of three from the Phillies. He didn’t do a terrible job managing in the loss to the Cubs yesterday, but but he did badly enough with his substitutions to warrant mention. First of all, he continues to burn through his [...]

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This’ll be a short rant because it’s pretty straight forward. I know the Astros are fairly hard up for great players right now and it’s hard to figure out who even deserves to be with the team. It feels a lot like extended tryouts right now. But it’s hard to imagine that they can’t fare [...]

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It was quite a streaky week for the Astros, sweeping the Pirates and then getting swept by the Brewers. I don’t have a lot to complain about against Mills this week with the sweep and then just getting flat out-played by the red-hot Brewers, but there are a couple of things that stand out. One [...]

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Welcome to Astros 290′s new segment dedicated entirely to weekly rants against Brad Mills, for as long as that may be necessary. It may not be much longer, as it was recently pointed out to me, Mills hasn’t exactly improved upon the performance of his predecessor: Cecil Cooper, 171-170 (.501) overall, 156-154 (.503) after being [...]

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