Astros to pursue Edwin Encarnacion

When do the winter meetings start?

 

Good to know, hopefully we can add one of those guys at some point. Also, love your avatar man.

 

if we don't land Edwin then I hope he still leaves toronto, preferably the NL though all the rumors suggest AL.

 

So... did we get him? Sources say...?

 

Sorry if posted before:

 

Everything's a travesty with you, man.

 

id question your use of the word "travesty".

Analyzing why people tweet garbage is not a travesty... also, if the Astros don't land EE or Beltran, it's far from a travesty at all.

Lineup will be improved regardless with a full year of Bregman along with Reddick/McCann and less Castro/Rasmus.

 

So...do we offer EE 4y/100MM and structure it so the last half is more palatable? I'd rather not offer much more (especially at his age) but you gotta bite the bullet eventually to bring in that type of player.

2017: 35MM
2018: 30MM
2019: 17.5MM
2020: 17.5MM

Or, we could throw the bank at Beltran for 1 year. Give him $25MM in 2017 and a mutual option for the 2018.

I'm still holding out hope that we can trade for Goldy, but that's probably a pipe dream even though ARI's prospect rankings were released and in bad shape.

 

If we could get Goldy, I'd be down to sign Beltran to two year-deal (one if he wants). Sick Lineup.

 

I doubt we empty our farm for Goldy and then allocate even more payroll to another bat (after trading our top arms, I'd rather see them sign Hill than Beltran), but holy cow could you imagine this?

Altuve
Bregman
Correa
Goldy
Beltran
Springer
Reddick
Yuli/Gattis
McCann/Gattis

 

Verified on twitter but not sure if accurate:

 

$100M only makes sense for EE if he continues to both hit and be able to play a passable 1B. I would feel a lot better if the contract were structured something like:

2017: $20M
2018: $20M
2019: $20M
2020: $25M vesting player option based on PA
2021: $25M vesting player option based on PA

That gets him to $110M potential earning and all he has to do is be good enough to be an everyday player.

 

Honestly, it wouldn't really matter what pitcher we versed. That's a brutally lethal lineup.

 

EE is going to get slightly north of 100 million

 

Obviously you're not a golfer.

 

******* it Luhnow get it done!!

 

Haha, I'm quite certain Luhnow has made his best offer, and now the ball is in Encarnacion's court. If they're waiting out some of these other teams to see what kind of offers they can put together, perhaps that one tweet saying that we won't know until after the winter meetings are over wasn't too far off. I will say that as more teams drop out of the race, it's obviously bad for EE since they're trying to get teams to bid against each other. However, I also don't feel good about a bidding war with the Red Sox. We just have to be patient.

 

Who cares about the money. Just go get him and reap the rewards later.