I'm OK with standing pat. Overall this team is very flawed and I feel they may have been over achieving a bit the last 2 months. Our lineup is abysmal minus Altuve an a above average Correa and Springer. I don't see Gurriel and Lucroy helping all that much. Let's ride this out and look for free agents and or better deals in the off season.
Agreed... it just sucks the Rangers got better. Hopefully we're just losing the battle and not the war.
I agree. . Looking forward to dumping Castro, Gomez, Rasmus and maybe Gattis. Everyday we have at least 5 huge holes in our lineup. It's maddening. You can't win that way.
that would be interesting. Do you believe and pay for the LASIK when his last 2 years were relatively terrible, and he's sitting on a .342 babip this year, and his power is at its peak? He's 28.. I think I'd pay for it if he can finish the year strong.
I don't think there's been 5 huge holes, the Gattis/Castro combo actually appears to be pretty effective as a platoon, and even though Rasmus has slumped, his hot start leaves him as a positive contributor overall. The real problems with the offense can be isolated to OF (Gomez, Marisnick, Tucker) and 1B (White, Reed).
Would like Neshek and Gomez waivered/bought out Are there buyouts under the baseball Union? Hoyt, Reed, Tucker, White, Stassi, Musgrove, Rodgers, Martes, Feliz, Devenski for those last few spots
Neshek has value to this team, either helping win games or be traded for prospects. Right now the Astros problem is that their hitting depth at the top of system has flamed out epically so far.
I agree Correa, McCullers, Devenski, Feliz, Springer have done nothing too make this a much better team
i see your point and it's an important one, but we've surplus'ed on the amount of prospects that make it into the majors, let alone make it to the majors and are special. Our organization doesn't get enough credit for the altuves and even marwin. But at some point you have to add professional veteran hitters. I get Gomez was supposed to be that, but he didn't pan out. so try again. A healthy dose of finding your holy phenoms through the system and adding a zobrist via trade/FA is the healthiest way to reach happy ending. I probably wouldn't feel that way if cleveland could have just landed lucroy. Rangers are banking on the stat that says 1 out 10 of your highest prospects will make the majors and contribute and that they found their 3 young stars in mazara, hodor and profar. In comparison we've done even more. time to fill the lineup with less swing and miss guys.
Spoiler <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Interesting comment from Luhnow: Said he knows some <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Astros?src=hash">#Astros</a>' owners might be disappointed in lack of moves, as well as fans, players.</p>— Brian T. Smith (@ChronBrianSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChronBrianSmith/status/760235234361155584">August 1, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Luhnow said result from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Astros?src=hash">#Astros</a>' moves last deadline did affect decision process this year. "The honest answer is 'Yes.' "</p>— Brian T. Smith (@ChronBrianSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChronBrianSmith/status/760234390139973632">August 1, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Two years straight the rangers are direct beneficiaries of no trade clauses - really feels like they just have our number. It's frustrating as hell. I get what Lunhow and co are trying to do but for a team that said at the beginning of the year it's World Series or bust and to see us almost put the Rangers on the rope, it's a real disappointment to be sellers while are chief rival make hands down the most impactful moves... Moves that we could have easily beaten IMO.
It was a bad trade dead line this year imo no matter how you spin it mainly because the rivals in the division made impact moves and the Astros didn't. Like I said earlier the organization just comes off as cheap to me in comparison to other contenders this year. We'll see how all of this pans out moving forward.
I wouldn't call us sellers though. sellers would be sending altuve, correa or springer for future prospect thinking we couldn't get them to sign. We were more like window shoppers. Maybe I can rent this girl for 1,000 and I can become popular. nahhh, I like my telescope.
Ranking the Worst Hitters in Astros History: 1 Jason Smith 0-25 2 Cody Clark 4-38 3 Keith Dumright 5-55 4 Buddy Biancalana 1-24 5 Alex Bregman 1-28 6 Mike Easler 1-27 7 Erik Kratz 2-29 8 Colin Moran 2-19 9 Pat Borders 4-35 10 Mike Fishclin 13-102 11 Nate Colbert 8-60 12 Matt Pagnozzi 3-21 13 Danny Walton 4-23 14 Phil Nevin 7-60 15 Robbie Wine 6-41 16 Art Gardner 16-96 17 Alan Zinter 6-44 18 Ron Reynolds 17-102 19 Mark McLemore 9-61 20 Erik Bullock 8-46 21 Glen Vaughan 5-30 22 Ivan Murrell 18-107 23 Ray Busse 13-85 24 Danny Worth 7-39 25 Bob Stinson 6-35 26 JC Hartman 44-238 27 Andy Mota 17-90 28 Pat Listach 24-132 29 Dave Adlish 43-236 30 Dave Rohde 23-139 31 Kenny Lofton 15-74 32 Raul Chavez 73-245 33 Luis Pujols 162-844 34 JR Phillips 13-73 35 Cameron Drew 3-16 36 Hector Torres 137-666 37 Tommy Manzella 59-263 38 Carroll Hardy 39-251 39 Less Thomas 39-201 40 Todd Self 9-45 41 Jerry Grote 55-303 42 Carl Nichols 21-113 43 Dave Clark 27-131 44 AJ reed 7-45 45 Mike Felder 28-117 46 Dale Berra 8-45 47 Greg Zaun 67-305 48 Ronny Cedeno 31-141 49 Bob Lillis 444-1921 50 JR Towles 80-428
