This seems to be the common theme. As though you'll go find new Altuves and Yordans in trades and everything will be great again in a few years.
No , I prefer we stay on our good streak and try to continue to climb. It will be tough with Pena out , but ASB will help minimize some of his missed games. I think we will stand pat ish
I know it's Crane who told Dana to get pitching and make moves to stay under tax but just realised this. And I have not been crying for Dubon but maybe that fighting spirit of utility player is something we could have used ......especially if you let Joe run key player(Pena) to the ground again. Dubon 6.1m (thought it was gonna be 8m prev.) 1.7 WAR so far Abreu 5.85m Allen 1.4m Diaz 4.5m Meyers 3.55m Total: aprox 15.5m Combined WAR of -1.0 so far. None of these players should have status of protected franchise player so can't get rid of. If you think Abreu is that, he is not. He is free agent and the plan can't be let him suck balls expense of team so maybe we get him back on cheap 1y pillow deal. Can't say much more about Diaz. When I even see his face my spouse is asking why Im whispering "c*nt" at TV and growling. On a other note. I was happy that Rangers are facing Framber and hot Tigers and watched the whole game. Rangers just did't give AB's away. Kept putting the ball in play on that fast turf and lot of it the other way. Before game was't sure they would score at all. Also their sh*tty BP gave just 2BB/1run in 4 innings. Hopefully they don't get stronger at deadline. They stand at 182m payroll now.
If Joe had just never played Pena, he wouldn't be hurt right now. The Astros should think about that every time they start any of their players.
93 for 2-3 innings sounds great with Imai's ball>strike potential. Astros need multiple MI arms from the pen. With players returning, Santos and Pearson are the prime candidates for exits -- that leaves two spots for Javier, Lance, Blanco, Ullola, Teng, and Santa. Burrows' days are numbered. Abreu. Trades.
43-47, run diff. -48 so actual record should be atleast couple of wins less. Only need to go 43-29 for 86-76 lowest total that have got WC in recent years. The win streak that we needed and were all feeling or hoping is about to happen is not coming. It does't mean that if we sell that we have to stop playing. AL Central has been won 2 years in a row by team selling and down in the ditch. Sell the greatest assets Pena and Brown and cut Diaz and Abreu if they have no trade value. I was thinking earlier that should't trade Walker because we need somebody hitting behind Yordan next season. Now he looks like he still has the skills but no eye sight. Just guessing in the box I guess. If somebody takes that money, prob get only some roadkill that would be available as rule 5 draft too. I don't give a sh*t if we bring some kid up from single A. Sign 20 low unknown international prospects and throw them in the pool to see if one of them can swim. Atleast Espada should finally be gone at start of next season played so there's that.
I think some are tired of not adding to our team as we stay middle of the pack. If we aren't trying to get better than we should think about a reset, otherwise what are we doing? I don't want to see this team go through years of losing again on the oft chance they rebound, but can't stand seeing this current squad getting worse over the years either. If missing the playoffs last season wasn't a wake up call (and getting ousted 0-2 the year before) then seriously, what are we doing?
Meyers is getting the Chas treatment being sent down, he must have 0 trade value... not that he doesn't belong in AAA.
Brice is in the midst of a 1-30 stretch. All three of them deserve to be in AAA right now. I guess we can see how Brice fares as the everyday CFer.
The only options aren't "be awesome" or "reset". The Rangers won the WS a few years ago as the 6 seed (facing another 6 seed that also made the WS). The Astros lost a WS to a wild card team. Sometimes, you can just try to be good and hope things fall your way. Last year, they missed the playoffs by a couple of games after having a historic amount of injuries. Was that really a wake up call that they needed to dismantle the whole thing? No dynasty lasts forever - we knew that the Astros' core was going to get old and expensive at some point. Realistically, your choices are exactly what you don't like: watch the team slowly get worse while keeping this core but hoping they get some luck; or blow it up and definitively be worse for many years. Either way, being best-in-baseball in 3-4 years isn't guaranteed or even likely. The most likely outcome of a gut & rebuild is that, in 3-5 years, the Astros look a lot like they do now with mixed results. As we see with the Tigers, Orioles, and other teams that have tried this strategy.
