Jose Altuve is on a 7-8 fWAR pace for a full season. He's incredible. By the time he's done, the "best Astro ever" conversation will one nobody even thinks about, the answer is obvious. A true legend of the game - we are lucky to witness it. By the way, only one player has ever hit 400 home runs and 400 stolen bases in a career. Is Jose Altuve going to join Bonds? It's not out of the question.
I want Diaz to catch everyday except his day off as a catcher. Let Maldy finish his career as a player/coach and Framber's personal catcher. I just have no hope that it will happen. I still have hope that it happens next year. This team next year could win 110 games if Dusty isn't the manager and Maldy retires. Those 2 have cost this team 15 wins and will be at fault if they do not win the AL West.
I assume if Brantley comes back, he will be spending a lot of time at DH. That would force Alvarez to LF more, and Chas to CF full time(at least I hope). That would also force Maldy or Diaz to the bench. We all know what the logical thing to do would be but I see Baker not doing the logical thing and have Diaz and Chas spend time on the bench. Ugh.
I LOVE Altuve and I would love that. But realistically I don't see him getting EITHER 400 HR or 400 SB. He is 33 years old. if he plays 7 more thru his age 40 season and duplicates what he has done the past 7 years WITH NO REDUCTION IS PLAYING TIME OR PRODUCTION DUE TO AGE: he ends up 51 HR and 18 SB short.
This sounds good to me. I get that in 1 and half months, this is too little time to be a big change in wins. I just know myself. I will be frustrated that the lineups Dusty throws out there will likely not be optimal (like the proposed lineups) based on my views.
300-300 Club is more realistic, which is only 8 deep. If he ever got to 3000 hits too, that would match Arod and Willie Mays. Just seems unlikely now compared to 5 years ago when it seemed automatic.
The Astros would be be leading the division if they simply deployed replacement level players over Maldy and Abreu this season. Impressive amount of negative value accumulated between that dynamic duo.
Obviously really early, but Singleton's underlying numbers look really strong so far in Houston. Whiffing at almost nothing (18% CSW% so far with a 6% SwStr%), taking walks, and hammering the ball. Let us pray this isn't a SSS mirage and he has in fact had a JD Martinez-type moment.
It would be really fun interesting from a morbid curiosity POV for a moment to see what Brown and Dusty would do if Singleton was great over the next month, Brantley got healthy, and Abreu was ready to come of the IL in a month.
I thought I saw that if a rookie gets rookie pitcher of the year or rookie player of the year the team he plays for gets a 1st round pick. Am imagining this or is this a possibility with JP
True, but we all know Brantley will be cautiously played and Singleton will not crush the ball (most likely be a sub .200 hitter still)
I wonder that too. Obviously, Hensley gers sent down buy there needs to be one other move. The options are: Singleton, Kessinger, or Meyers. If the point of this exercise is to figure what happens if Jon makes himself impossible to be sent down then: I would hope they send Kessinger down and just use Dubon as the backup infielder. I think maybe Dusty prefers having Dubon as the backup CF and with Yordan and Brantley in the mix for more LF starts, Meyers is the one sent down.
No. That only happens if the rookie was on at least 2 of the major national top 100 prospect lists AND he was on the opening day roster. Hunter Brown is eligible though.
Would bet Brantley gets the lion share of DH opportunities and Dusty would ultimately let it ride with Singleton (or a timeshare between Singleton and Abreu). Unlike catcher, there are not many avenues for creating "transcendent" value at 1B.
If Brantley comes back my guess is he will be a sparingly used bench bat. Which puts Brown in a tough spot if he needs to have both Singleton and Abreu on the roster. I don’t think they will put Abreu on the bench under any circumstances during the regular season, but they may leave him off the playoff roster if he comes back and sucks and Singleton hits well.
I think that there are enough dead wood (Hensley, Kessinger) and question marks (Brantley and Abreu's health, Singleton's production) that at least 1 issue does not resolve itself and cause 5 options for 4 roster spots.
If Hensley, Kessinger, or even Dubon showed a bit more run production and consistency I would suggest Bregman sit vs LHP 25-33% of the time but as bad as he is there is no real option.
