Online sportsbooks have had the Houston Astros as underdogs a lot this season and that is likely to continue even though the Astros fired manager Cecil Cooper. The Astros have struggled this season with an under .500 record in sports betting at the Internet sportsbook.
Online sportsbooks have the Astros with a lot of problems, not the least of which was Cooper. He had no idea how to manage the team and it didn’t help that the pitching rotation was weak and the team suffered injuries.
Dave Clark was promoted from third-base coach to interim manager for the final 13 games of the season. “Coop is a very solid baseball guy and gave his heart and soul for this organization,” Astros general manager Ed Wade said. “Unfortunately, I got to a point where it was appropriate to make this change and make it now. It gives us a couple of weeks to go ahead and evaluate some other facets of our operation at the field level and hopefully use that time to try to make the right decisions going forward.”
Cooper may not be the only one to go as online sportsbooks indicates. General manager Ed Wade has not done a good job even though he has had a lot of money to spend as Internet sportsbook notes. This is the fourth straight season the Astros will miss the playoffs as Internet sportsbook stats show. “It seems like we’ve been on sort of a gradual downward spiral since we made it to the World Series (in 2005), and I think you can’t just point to one thing,” first baseman Lance Berkman said. “There are several factors involved in that. If there was ever an environment for sweeping reform or change, this would be it.”
Cooper went 171-170 as manager of the Astros as Internet sportsbook online betting numbers indicated. The Astros have spent a lot of money and gotten very little in return as online sportsbooks stats have it. “I don’t know what the organization plans on doing,” Berkman said. “Certainly, the way we’re playing now and the things that have gone on here over the last three or four years are not getting it done.” Berkman is one of the players not getting it done as online sportsbooks stats have him with just 22 home runs and 73 RBIs. It is the worst season of his career. Roy Oswalt is having the worst season of his career as well as online sportsbooks stats show. Oswalt is 8-6 with a 4.12 ERA this online sportsbooks baseball season.