Typically, I would be more willing to bet on an injured position player returning to form if not too old than a pitcher. Conforto has likely been able to swing a bat for a while, but it still may take him time to regain his swing. Astros have a great enough team that they should be able to take a month or 3 to get his bat back. He's got a lot of upside. Considering I think the Astros will have OFs that wil provide a lot of defensive value, Conforto and Brantley would be the guys I'd focus on as the other guys don't have the upside to be significant improvements over the defensive OFs.
Yep. Position players that aren’t old typically are fine coming back from injury. He doesn’t have to be great in April, just September or October. The injury is upper body so it’s not going to sap his athleticism. He’s worked out for them and they offered a contract already so you should know if the bat speed is there. As long as it is the rest is just knocking off rust. He doesn’t even have to play more than 40-70% of his games in the field depending upon who you listen to about Yordans time out there in the field.
Agree on Profar. Only thing he really has is that he's a switch hitter. Average bat, great K-BB ratio but nothing else "great." You don't spend $11M on a bench guy, I want Hensley to develop as the utility guy. Plus, as I've said, despite coming up as a SS he doesn't really play IF anymore. Conforto has always graded as a plus arm. I think he'll bounce back if healthy. He's been seen as a plus bat (or at least with the potential to be one), but looking at his Savant page it looks like his peripherals are better than the actual results. Looks like another candidate to improve without shifts.
You’re giving him 4 years? And this is spending money reasonably? And no player just sits back and counts the money…. But plenty are just not as good as you think they are or they’re physically unable to stay on the field.
Yes. It was. We were just 6-7 deep that year. When CP3 went down, so did our chances, because we were forced to play Gerald Green and others. The front office knew that and did nothing. I might be a seasonal Astros fan, but I’ve follow the Rockets daily for decades now. I was at game 7 of the WCF. Everyone knew Tillman cheaped out on that trade, and it very likely cost us the championship based on how the series played out.
So just to clarify, he was offered a contract by the Astros last year but chose to take $0 rather than take that contract. If he was healthy, as you seem to know was true, playing for a couple of months would have showed that and let him get a big long-term contract this offseason. So what does it tell you that he picked $0 and maintaining that uncertainty over playing last year?
It's interesting that the two smartest and most successful organizations in baseball - the Astros and Dodgers - are sitting out this crazy free market splurge. It might tell us something.
Dodgers next offseason will clear $55MM in payroll just from Bauer and Kershaw. Chasing Ohtani wouldn't stop them from spending this year.
https://www.basketball-reference.co...rn-conference-finals-warriors-vs-rockets.html What you said makes no sense. 20 minutes of Gerald Green instead of Gordon doesn't hurt like Ariza missing almost every 3 in the series. His average shooting would have meant 20 more points over 7 games.
The Dodgers are saving up for Ohtani. Really not feeling Crane letting Verlander walk and not trying to extend at least Javier.
