Looks like a fair deal but I doubt they trade Nootbar. He looks to be a core piece for them I expect they have about 7 position players they will try to get rid of first, and Montgomery and Hicks are the 2 important pieces in that deal. I don't see the Astros playing hardball and risk losing them trying to get Lars included.
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I think it's going to be tough to trade with the Cards and, to some extent, the White Sox Both will be losing the majority of their rotation but keeping the majority of their position player roster. Both will likely want pitching in deadline deals and most teams have more/better than the Astros to offer. The Padres, on the other hand, look like OF will be the weakest area returning next year.
He's proving his value now as a 6-7th starter when injuries hit like they have this year, pitchers like Bielak help keep the team a float until reinforcements are brought in. There's a lot of value in this.
But every organization has 5 of him already. He doesn't stand out and isn't better than most of the AAA starters for every other team. Except he's more expensive
How about Dylan Carlson OF Miles Mikolas RP Jordan Montgomery SP For Luis Garcia SP Spencer Arrighetti SP Shawn Dubin RP Pedro Leon 2B/OF Jaime Melendez SP And Forrest Whitley SP This would be a a fair trade to me. Thinking it would be even across. They won't like moving Carlson but he hasn't faired to well in St Louis
Only one of those players would be useful to us and we would be giving up 2 starters with control and probably our best minor league pitchers.
Montgomery would be the Astros 2nd best SP Hicks and Gallegos would be valuable 7th inning RP slotting in behind Pressly/Abreu/Neris. Gallegos comes with an additional year. Nootbar would be the starting LF, a clearly better hitter than Julks/Meyers, and he hits lefty. He also is controlled long term.
I do not believe a long term starter or position player that we could pick up at the deadline is in our interest. A relief pitcher that has not reached arbitration is what I am most interested in.
Framber Brown Javier Urquidy Bielak Blanco Whitley That’s 7 MLB ready options already on the 40 man, plus McCullers who would be ready sometime after midseason. Then we’ll have to wait and see what happens with Macuare, Robaina, Kouba, Gordon, Tamarez, Solis, and the other SP in the upper levels over the next 3 months to see if any of them become viable options. Of course, there would also be an entire offseason to address the issue.
Blanco and Whitley? Come one. Whitley can't even get AAA players out for more than 3 innings at a time. Blanco is not a starter. Bielak and Urquidy aren't much more than inning eaters. We need to keep JP at a minimum.
Montgomery and Hicks are Free Agents after this year Nootbar is still pre-arb, they aren't trading him. They have said they will make moves this year aimed at 2024 Gallegos has two more years after this year As much as I would like Montgomery, and a trade for him is very much a possibility, a deal like this has way less than 1% chance of happening Cards are not in any way looking to move Nootbar, and pretty unlikely to move Gallegos Astros aren't going to limit their pitching staff next year as much as this deal would do. Plus, Garcia isn't a free agent until 2027, he is a big part of the future plans for the starting staff, especially with how little money he will be making
