Astros winning despite bad luck

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00:00They have no business being a half game out of second place in the AL right now, and yet there they are!

00:07And this is where I'm done. I'm done being cautious about it.

00:11My God, they've had every bit of bad luck you could have.

00:14I'm knocking on wood as I say this. They've had some pretty damn bad luck.

00:19Sean, there's so many things that if they just tip the other way, if the pendulum swings to the right,

00:25if we're all the way up at the left right now, on your little clacking balls desk thing,

00:31it's about to come back down and smash Spencer Arregetti or Luis Garcia up onto the roster, and away we go.

00:40Well, the interesting thing about that, and if you're just waking up, the Astros win 13-3 last night.

00:44They hit a bunch of home runs. They got a quality start out of Jason Alexander, and they win 13-3.

00:50The Mariners win also, so the lead remains four and a half games.

00:53There's your thumbnail sketch.

00:55As far as what you were just talking about with bad injury luck, these are all guys that are going to come back.

01:02The Tommy John guys are sort of on a separate burner for me just because of how sketchy that's been

01:07in bringing some of those guys back.

01:08But Arregetti, Lance McCullers, assuming that it's just a foot sprain, the big one is Jordan Alvarez.

01:15Seth, they're probably going to get these guys back all in July, I would imagine.

01:19And I wonder how that affects Dana Brown's decision-making at the trade deadline.

01:25This is not a minor league where they're flush with guys that they can really afford to get rid of at this point.

01:30You know, but even last year's trade with Kikuchi, you look at the three guys they shipped out,

01:35and none of them are doing anything right now.

01:37Bloss is the pitcher they sent.

01:39Bloss is the latest TJ guy to come out of the Astros organization.

01:42I wonder how it affects his decision-making at the trade deadline, or if this team is still winning

01:48and in first place and gaining ground on the top of the league, let alone building a bigger lead in their own division.

01:56Does he view Arregetti and Lance, and the big one is Jordan, do they almost feel like trade deadline pickups?

02:03Because you're in first place already.

02:04You are the best team in this division, very clearly, without those guys.