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I’m loving seeing the NL teams load up. Not only keeps stats out of the AL but also drives up the value of Houston’s tradable big leaguers.
Yes. Getting a top 6 pick would be one of the biggest things to happen to the Astros in the last decade. If they played their cards right even...
Fair trade. Astros would need to flip one of the prospects for either a bat or a SP.
A flurry of hypothetical trades as we get into the meat of the winter meetings: Astros get: SP Payton Tolle IF Mikey Romero IF Henry Godbout Red...
Getting Bubic and Baz wouldn’t be the ideal outcome most of us were hoping for but it’d give them a full rotation and wouldn’t hurt the farm much....
I like Salazar and think he’d be a fine backup C, but there’s been a few comments from the front office that indicate they are looking to bring in...
Baz is not a ToR SP. He’s the midpoint of Hunter Brown and Spencer Arrighetti. Meyers and Brito would be about right for him; I wouldn’t want...
Astros get: SP Mackenzie Gore IF CJ Abrams C Keibert Ruiz Nats get: OF Cam Smith IF Brice Matthews SP Spencer Arrighetti P Miguel Ullola C Walker...
Why would the Nats trade for Christian Walker? One idea I had was to trade for Abrams and either shop Pena or shift Abrams to 2B/OF,...
I think it’s reasonable to expect them to get 3 of those 4 things done. They’ll likely end up either a pitcher (counting on Javier as the SP3) or...
My bar for if the offseason is successful: Javier needs to be the 4th best SP There need to be 6 hitters better than...
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/padres-trade-rumors-nick-pivetta-jake-cronenworth.html Astros get: SP Nick Pivetta IF/OF Jake Cronenworth...
Yup. Flipping 1 year of Tucker into an all star appearance from Paredes and a cy young from Ragans (with both getting QO picks on their way out)...
You can keep moving the goalposts if you want but your point will still be wrong. Hes only had 2 full seasons in the bigs, one in which he threw...
It takes a long time to assess trades and draft picks. For a team that acquires a recently drafted prospect it could take 5+ years to know how...
He pitched 130+ ip in 2022 and 120+ ip in 2023 then 180+ ip in 2024. Last season is the only one in the last 5 where he missed the bulk of a...
Winter meetings were hugely important for Houston last year. They probably make the playoffs in 2025 if they don’t trade Tucker.
Whitcomb is still pretty valuable while he has options remaining, as was Trammell. Trammell being out of options is what cost him his spot.
Right. Ragans has more value now than Tucker had this time last season (with 3 seasons of control vs 2 and a locked in low salary for 2 of them,...
I hope you’re right
