re: How warm is Espadas seat?

The Astros never underachieved under Dusty. They won in spite of him. Him picking favorites instead of playing the best possible players and blatantly going against and butting heads with multiple GM’s is what drove everyone crazy. Not to mention he was an a-hole.


I refuse to believe this season would look that much different thus far if he was still our manager instead of Espada. Unless of course Dusty being in the dugout somehow made our “lockdown” overpaid relievers perform like they’re supposed to

We have the same hitting problems (with runners on base) and same hitting coach we had under Dusty


There have only been a few times Espada has made head scratching decisions and most of them involve some form of Jose Abreu and Jon Singleton…both horrific 1B that Espada has to play. If we had even a below average 1B then that problem would be solved


Yes it’s possible he’s bad at managing the locker room and the players don’t like playing for him but there haven’t really been any signs of that. Hard to really judge that when there hasn’t even been a full month of the season played