Hunter Brown's Struggles Spell Trouble for Houston Astros
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00:02 One of the guys I went and reached for was Hunter Brown.
00:06 And I'll tell you, in that league,
00:07 I just actually released or dropped Hunter Brown
00:10 and made a little outfield move because I had some injuries.
00:13 Hunter Brown, droppable would be the way
00:15 I would start this off?
00:17 Question mark, your thoughts?
00:19 - I don't know if it's a question mark.
00:20 I think, how can you not justify that?
00:22 He's got 16, four, three ERA.
00:24 Here's the one that really is troubling.
00:27 Seven and two thirds innings in three starts.
00:30 That's troubling.
00:31 But the 23 hits in the seven innings,
00:34 something's off here.
00:35 This is--
00:36 - Tipping pitches, something's clear, right?
00:38 Yeah.
00:39 - It's that, it's a problem with him physically.
00:41 It's a problem, whatever it is, it's a problem.
00:44 And it's a bigger problem because,
00:46 look, the Houston Astros are five and 11 right now.
00:48 They're at the bottom of the West.
00:49 And I know Justin Verlander's working his way back.
00:51 That's great.
00:52 But outside of Christian Javier,
00:53 they brought up Spencer Arriguetti.
00:54 He got rocked.
00:55 He's always been a guy that has control issues.
00:57 So I wasn't running to the waiver wire if they came up.
00:59 Hunter Brown has been dreadful.
01:00 JP France is JP France.
01:02 And look, Ronald Blanco has been a good story,
01:03 but you really gonna buy into a 30 year old guy
01:05 who was pitching out in the independent league
01:07 not that long ago?
01:08 I don't think I am.
01:09 Houston has an issue here.
01:11 And Hunter Brown's gonna have to get sent down.
01:14 Look, if you can get him for cheap
01:16 and just stash him on your bench,
01:17 if somebody drops him, okay.
01:18 But if you are desperate for pitching right now,
01:20 and we talked about Lugo, we talked about Bradford,
01:22 we talked about some of those other names,
01:24 those guys in Boston, whether it be Houck or Whitlock
01:26 or Cutter Crawford, any of those guys right now,
01:30 in a heartbeat, I would drop Hunter Brown for
01:31 and just move on because I think you have to.
01:34 I think it's a bigger issue right now.
01:35 Houston going forward has really got a hope
01:38 and pray that Justin Verlander gets back
01:40 to being Justin Verlander.
01:41 'Cause then at least him and Javier
01:43 at the top of this rotation, okay.
01:44 But that's not enough.
01:45 If you're gonna compete in the longterm here in 162,
01:49 they've got to figure something out.
01:50 And it might be having to go get somebody else via trade.
01:53 But this is where the scandal kind of pops up for them
01:57 from years past, where they didn't have as many draft picks.
02:00 So maybe the cupboard is a little bit more barren
02:03 than you think in the Houston organization
02:05 to make a move like that.
02:06 The Shane Beavers of the world who are gonna be on the move
02:09 this year in 2024, potentially,
02:11 he's on the move to not pitch this year.
02:13 So all of a sudden it's just a really tough market
02:18 for starting pitching right now.
02:19 And I think Houston is kind of up against the wall.
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