Houston – Strangely, Sunday, the dishes rest.
It’s a strange moment for a day of rest, but it seems to be a great opportunity for us to assess their first series, which ended unusually halfway throughout the weekend but has always lasted long enough to provide some advice on the ball club.
Even if the dishes lost the series after being a Saturday for sure in a 2-1 defeat – of course, with Juan Soto, warm and well -nanished, obtaining the only blow, a double that he thought he was flying in the crawford boxes but was not entirely made – there were still a few very positive signs.
1. SOTO does not seem negatively affected by his record pay check ($ 126 million, including the signature bonus, for 2025 alone).
Yes, the Soto era left positive, at least with regard to Soto. He hit the only food circuit in the series, was on the basis seven times and even launched a Soto Shuffle or two patented.
The Home Run Friday was something to see, a laser of a shot that slammed the face of the upper bridge. He struck a more routine training on Saturday which struck halfway from the left wall, or at least too high for the left field player Jose Altuve to reach.
“I thought I had it,” said Soto in a dumping of a clubhouse.
Soto was contemplative on the 1-2 record they took in Miami.
“This is the first (series). It did not go as planned … This is what it is,” said Soto, resembling a real New Yorker.
“But we have a lot that we can get out of it and move on,” added Soto.
We agree. Here are some others.
2. In the end, Soto will need help.
The rest of the Fab Five – Francisco Lindor dishes, Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and Mark Venos – was a 4 -for -42 combined (.095).
Lindor has not yet recorded a safe blow in 11 At -Bat strikes – although he said he felt much better in marble than last year, when he started horribly before going to the place in May and taking off, ending up ending up behind Shohei Ohtani in the NL MVP shutter.
“I have to do a much better work to be on the basis and make things happen,” said Lindor. “I have to continue working, grinding, and I hope it is not a thing for a month.”
Overall, the dishes scored a sorry five points in the three games.
The good news is that it will probably not continue.
3. The pitch laboratory touted of dishes remains mainly a mystery, but whatever they do, it seems to work.
Griffin Canning, a major supporter of the laboratory based on the data responsible for transforming average starters into assets, made its debut with a good start on Saturday.
The winter outing of Canning by one of the most intelligent teams (The Braves) was not shocked because it posted an MPM of 5.19 last year and granted the most points (99) and the second home run (31) in the American League for Angels. It is announced as a touched type launcher, but he lived to a respectable 94-95 MPH and above all kept the unbalanced astros.
“His quick ball was up to 96. We didn’t see him during spring training,” said Manager Carlos Mendoza.
Canning calls himself a “delivery man” (not to be confused with the workers of Uber Eats) and is looming from additional aid. “I think you would be stupid not to use the technology to improve yourself,” Canning told our Mike Puma during spring training.
Canning seemed strong in the spring, collecting 22 stick withdrawals, which ranked second in the Pamplemousse League. It did not count, of course, so that was his first real test as a laboratory rat.
It is too early to declare the Laboratory Youth Cure, but Canning did much better against a team that toured him before, up to an MPM of 6.69. He lasted two withdrawals in the sixth, when he granted a double to the superstar of the Astros Yordan Álvarez who gave the astros their second round. (No shame on that!)
4. Edwin Díaz did not look like the launcher we saw during spring training.
And my boy is always a relief.
Because, let’s face it, Sugar Díaz must be right for the food to succeed. We saw a good díaz (1.31 ERA in 2022), and there is no one better. And we also saw Bad Díaz (5.59 ERA in 2019), and there is nothing sweet on this.
Anyway, Díaz looked so well saving the 3-1 victory on Friday, it is time to warm these trumpets. The speed was back in the normal beach. After a spring where he launched 96 MPH almost to his best, he has an average of 98. And these two ticks are indeed everything for him.
Díaz was not too worried during its rugged source. And neither is his patterns.
“We knew that once the lights are lively, we will see the typical sugar,” said Mendoza.
In a series that ended in a disappointing way, it was perhaps the best development of all.
