In my post I was alluding to their doo wa diddy song. “and I nearly lost my mind” but yes, Bruce wrote their Blinded by the light hit. later, the “Earth Band” was pretty impressive.
I have been grousing over the cost of things constantly of late. I can recall sitting in $5 seats for matinee games at the dome. I found a ticket price list on a 1970 chronicle schedule card, it was astonishing. Box $3.50 Reserve $2.50 General Admission $1.50 Children's Pavilion Seats 50 cents Every Sunday is Family Day with a $1.00 reduction on all tickets for children under 14 Every Wednesday is Ladies Night with a $1.00 reduction on all tickets for ladies
Going back to my fixation on the salary cap being a joke and is abused by the big money clubs with the tacit approval of the league office. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42760649/dodgers-deferred-payments-top-1-billion-7-players
Aroldis Chapman getting $11M is a good sign Houston would be able to move most if not all of Pressly’s salary.
Wouldn't Chapman getting $11M mean that if Pressly is moved, it would cost essentially what Pressly is getting to replace his value to the bullpen?
Well, I think the idea is that a proven market-value RP like Pressly is a luxury the Astros don’t need or can’t afford. I also think that Houston is banking on their ability to find high quality RP for below market value (see Scott and Ort from last season).
https://t.co/6uTp9fX8WN The Astros aren’t signing Bregman. It would not shock me if they signed a different big free agent (Fried, Adames, Alonso, Flaherty, Santander). It also would not shock me if they traded Tucker or Framber. If they don’t do either of those things, with ~$25M to spend under the CBT threshold (assuming they trade Pressly), I’d expect 3 mediocre moves (current leaders would be signing Jorge Polanco and Carlos Santana and trading for Zack Littell).
Astros have always felt they could move Pressly, it is more an issue of sending him somewhere that he will agree to and balancing moving his salary, with having a use of it elsewhere and having the Bregman decision made--- everything has to kind of line up.
Not necessarily, depends on whether the Astros believe they have an internal replacement, that they can trade for a replacement or are confident that they can rehab someone. It is all about allocating resources in a way that will help their efforts to win. They may decide they would rather take $14,000,000 and put it towards a bat.
