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My hope is that they are paired with a trade for another more impactful lefty bad (B Lowe, W Abreu, C Mullins, M Yastrzemski, L Wade). If Winker...
Yep, the Torres and Hernandez contracts serve as evidence the market is turning. We’ll see if that ends up being the case but if so it bodes well...
Teoscar Hernandez back to the Dodgers for $66M/3yrs. Passan saying there’s some deferred money and a 4th year option but no details to know what...
A rightie facing OF of Carpenter/McCormick/Heyward and a lefty facing OF of Dubon/Meyers/McCormick would be extremely good.
Torkelson does still have an option year left. Tigers have Carpenter at DH. It would be cool if Houston traded for Carpenter.
On paper Pena should be very valuable; a 3 war player at the premium position just entering his first year of arbitration. But what would Peña’s...
Yep, you don’t want to see Whitcomb or Dezenzo or Leon or whoever else would be in the mix playing 20-30 games at SS, much less more if Pena were...
They have Colt Kieth (who they gave an extension to last season), Jace Jung (a top prospect), and Spencer Torkelson (former #1 overall pick)...
$15M/1yr is a very good value for Torres. He was worth that in his worst season and he’s only 28. Gleyber Torres (age 28) career wRC+: 113...
Yeah that’s not something I’d classify as “an injection of talent.” If it’s a secondary benefit to clearing money to add a more impactful player...
What kind of surplus value do you think Caratini has? He’s on a free agent contract. Houston can probably get rid of his full deal and maybe get...
Astros entered the offseason with 5-7 organizational needs: 1B 3B OF SP3 (debatable) 2-3 Top 100 prospects They currently have 3-4 organizational...
It is easily much closer to 0% than 30%. I will be so glad when Bregman finally signs so we can all just move on. Somehow the GM publicly...
If you think Diaz would accept those extensions I don’t know what to tell you. If you think Brown hasn’t approached every good young player’s...
Diaz is controllable thru his age 29 season. Any extension would buy out the last 2-3 seasons of him being a productive catcher. It makes sense...
I too would be on board with that. Something similar (but not as restrictive) as the franchise player designation in NFL. Or maybe just when you...
This in bold is a fallacy. If the team control per the CBA wasn’t in place, there would be far less $ for free agents. The players collectively...
Astros have very enviable depth. I believe most of their depth starters are very underrated from Blanco to Kouba. The main difference between...
The farm system is in much better shape than it was 18 months ago. I think Brown’s plan was to incubate a large group of high risk/ceiling...
Astros get: OF Kerry Carpenter P Ty Madden Tigers get: P Framber Valdez
