They (will?) have a cheap youngster to play 4/5th OF, right? Urias is brilliant-glove backup at everywhere in the IF. Why do you need Dubon? And I love Dubon. I also loved Marwin.
Who knows? I fully would expect the odds of at least one of Paredes/Correa/Altuve/Pena suffering multi IL stints is? (Would go even more likely with Bregman) I would also fully expect any OF configuration to be a work in progress (+/- whatever they’re doing with Yordan/Altuve in regards to field time).
I wonder if Dana will explore a Dubon extension, such as 2 years / $10M, to lower the AAV a little bit. For reference, Spotrac has an estimate of $6.8M on Dubon. I do like Urias' bat better though but since Dubon is the ultimate utility guy, the team may value his defense and locker room presence enough to keep him around. My non-tender or trade candidates, with Spotrac estimates: Sanchez = $6.5M Urias = $5.8M Chas = $3.4M Garcia = $2.5M Trammell = $950K This shaves $19.1M off the 2026 payroll. Sanchez and Urias probably have some trade value that you wouldn't have to non-tender them. This should be a nice chunk to throw towards a starting pitcher. Meyers is estimated to receive $4.5M. I do wonder if they explore trading him while his value is highest and roll forward with Cole, Melton, and/or Matthews in CF. Matthews was getting a lot of OF reps towards the end of the minor league season. A Cole/Matthews CF platoon does intrigue me with all the pop they have.
They have/plan to look at the level of interest in Meyers around the league. Like a lot of guys on the Astros, they will move him if they get the value they need. I could see him included in a deal for a #2 starter or possibly in a separate deal to get someone to make up for the cost of trading for a #2 starter. Brown is in a very tough spot with guys like Matthews, Cole, Sullivan and Melton. They are all high risk players, but with really high upside - so it makes it dicey to keep or deal them. There is a decent chance one of them eventually an all star, but 2-3 of them will likely be selling used cars in 6 years. Brett Oberholtzer can teach them the ropes.
He is not a bad coach - I just think they needed a change, the players were too comfortable with him.
I think you absolutely need to keep them both. The Astros have too many players with questionmarks either with health or youth/unknowns in performance - . Having two guys who can cover the whole field limits how many AAAA guys have to be used to fill lineups next year. Rather than having Trammel and Hummel and Short and whomever else to come up every time someone gets injured, these two cover it all. One of them is useful; both of them basically eliminate any need for other positional bench players.
It’s time to move on from Jake Meyers in my opinion. I love the guy but we need better arms in the outfield.
