Save Yuli

Thank you for writing my favorite post ever on this forum. I’m thinking of printing this and framing it. Great job, good effort.

 

I remember the 1970s Indians. They brought us godawful monotonous threads also.

 

They changed it up the year after getting swept in the 2nd of the playoffs by their Seattle nemesis. Then the next year, they made it to the WC Finals and managed to beat those Sonics that the Rockets could never previously beat. They got worse the following years because an aging Hakeem started falling off a cliff.

 

Yuli was God awful last year.

I love him and hope/wish he was in the organization in a NON PLAYER role.

But if they had brought him back to be the starting 1B I would have been terribly disappointed and if they had not resigned Brantley because he was on the on the roster I would have been just as disappointed

If they signed him to take Up a bench spot I would only be mildly disappointed.

 

Yuli needs a non player position in the organization.

There is zero reason to think he would be any better than Hensley and there is no room for both on the roster.

 

I can’t tell you why exactly, but Yuli Gurriel is one of my favorite players in 40 years of watching baseball. Maybe it’s the fact that he was one of the 10 best players in all of baseball when he was young in CUBA and had already lost bat speed when he came to USA and still was overall really solid. Maybe it’s being on the epic Astros teams… maybe it’s because I’m partial to the CUBANS. I think what it is though is that he is one of the rare guys that plays because he LOVES the game, loves to compete, loves his teammates and fans and really just loves the game of baseball and it’s just so pure with him… the money, the fame etc. it’s great for him I’m sure, but you can tell he does it for the game.

 

Excessive sentiment over logic is not what you want to do when trying to win a title. I love Yuli, and look forward to the many ways he will be honored by our organization in the future.

There's a reason he's still unsigned.

 

The Rockets made the hard call to trade OT and won it all. Then they ran it back and got swept.

 

Back-to-back unnecessary threads aside, what possessed OP to make the correlation to the Barkley trade? It's a completely different sport under completely different circumstances. Like, literally, the only thing that's similar is both teams were coming off a title and made a personnel move. Aside from that, I see zero similarities.

Good teams need to make roster moves, too. ThIs Astros team has historically done it better than anyone else. They'll be fine without Yuli.

 

Yuli was terrible last year. He 38-39 year old body caught up with him. Father Time tapped him on the shoulder.
Fan Graphs: “His barrel rate dropped, his hard-hit rate dropped, and – you guessed it – his average exit velocity dropped too. He wasn’t hitting the ball as hard as he used to, so he wasn’t getting as many hits. ”

As far as winning back to back, it hasn’t been done in 20 plus years.
McCullers, Yordan need to be healthy and very productive.
Hunter Brown needs to be in rookie of the year consideration and not the next Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh.
No major injuries to Altuve and Co.
Luis Garcia needs to step his game up and be a very solid 3rd starter. (He can)

Odds are against Astros repeating, history says so but on paper they have a realistic opportunity.

 

Honestly it’s not as bad as all that. You laid out 10 things (I’m including about 4 or 5 guys in the “and company” you mentioned) and we probably only need about 4 or 5 of them to happen to get a top 3 seed. From there it’s pretty much who gets hot and who gets lucky. Playoff baseball is more or less flipping coins.

 

No doubt we all love Yuli but he's not a utility player at his later age and that's the only way this would work.

 

Make him a scout or ambassador in some shape for Cuban players

 

lol what

 

Thank you for writing my favorite post ever on this forum. I’m thinking of printing this and framing it. Great job, good effort.

 

I'm gonna assume extreme sarcasm here?

 

Can he be the bat boy?

 

Indeed. The extremist.