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Astros opening day roster, 2025 vs 2026 projected: C: Diaz/Caratini vs Diaz/Salazar: Diaz is coming off a worse year and Salazar is a downgrade...
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[MEDIA] Couple thoughts on Neyens before he even gets going: His body looks nearly peaked out. He’s freaking juiced, and he probably has 70...
Rank of Houston’s 9 best hitters by Steamer wRC+ projections: 3. Alvarez 30. Paredes 73. Correa 89. Altuve 110. Pena 118. Diaz 196. Walker 259....
Interesting comment from Brown in that article. One aspect to waiting is that one way or the other it will make his decision easier: If Houston...
Yes I should have included them.
List of young hitters I think legitimately have enough power to hit 30+ HR at peak of everything goes right: Zach Dezenzo Shay Whitcomb Cam...
Alvarez’s swing looked quicker there than other clips I’ve seen. He obviously has great bat control and swing path, but other clips I felt like...
https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/astros-assistant-general-manager-gavin-dickey-discusses-farm-system?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage One of the least...
So who was the linchpin that represents the difference in “mentality” from 2017/2022 to now? Bregman? Dusty Baker or AJ Hinch?? Verlander?
So you predict they will get 200 games total combined from their 3 best hitters again and the 4 completely new SP will give up the same runs as...
One thing that I think might be different about this year is that the AL West could be pretty tough. The Mariners are stacked. The Rangers have...
Which individual players do you expect to underperform relative to their projections?
After Alvarez and Frey, Huezo probabiy has the most helium of any prospect in the system right now. [MEDIA]
McCullers only threw 8 pitches but they were all fastballs and curveballs. Sinker was 94, 4S was 93. He can be effective with that velo. It...
There is a really wide variance to potential outcomes for the Astros this season, but I think there’s more upside than downside. It would not...
Yep with his baserunning and defense and walks, he could be easily be a 2+ win player even with a really low batting average.
Yeah a 3 year phase in combined with maybe each team being able to exempt their 2 largest contracts from the cap during that time makes sense to...
There is a lot of upside in this roster. A lot of it is related to health/age (Alvarez, Correa, Paredes, Walker, Altuve, Javier, hell maybe even...
