Not worried about it. Stupid money always finds a hole to drain through. This isn’t the first time teams have done this, and it won’t be the last. Just stay true to your principles and it’ll work out.
Turner - 11 yr Bogaerts - 11 yr Judge - 9 yr Nimmo - 8 yr FA signed >7 years 2022- 1 Seager 2021- 0 2020- 1 Cole
Tucker Barnhart has won 2 gold gloves and has a career .705 OPS against righties. He is strictly a platoon guy though. Navarez hasn't won gold gloves but his defensive metrics are close to the top tier and he has a career .751 OPS v righties and career .728 OPS overall. He was playing solid until he had an injury plagued 2nd half. In 2021 Navarez and Murphy had pretty similar WARs as well. The 3 years of club control only matters to me if you aren't giving up a ton of talent to acquire that control. Maybe Murphy makes a big leap in OPS and offensive WAR by getting out of Oakland. His home road splits are pretty dramatic with an .820 OPS away from Oakland and .684 OPS at home. I'm not saying Murphy is bad at all, but the price tag is obscene when there are some other options out there that are almost as good in a platoon situation like we will have.
So are the FA pricetags. The real question remains—how do we get better? Barnhart, Navarez and company are not really upgrades. It would be like adding Odorizzi to the pitching staff.
Just stupid money being thrown around. Yankees won in the 90s with a homegrown team same as the current Astros. It’s a proven model. Yankees have been trying to buy a WS for the last 20 something years and keep failing. Houston just needs to overpay a bit for Conforto on a 2 year deal and bring back Brantley for 1 year as well. Just stay out of these huge long term deals.
In a platoon situation they are clearly are upgrades offensively. Maldy has a .739 OPS v lefties since 2020 and .554 OPS v righties in that time.
Ok... When you guys on here mention Navarez do you mean the left hand hitting recent Brewer catcher named Omar Narvaez?
Enjoy the process. Whoever we get is going to be the right player at the right price…whether that’s free agents or trades. An under the radar type move that could make sense for the Astros is Salvador Perez. He’s on a bad team, with 3 years and $62 million left on his deal. He’ll be 33 next season, and you always have to watch out with catchers, but his bat and defense are both there. So you get a better catcher than Contreras, on a 3 vs 5 year deal.
