He shouldn't be a GM ever again. I think he has been a GM for 12 or 13 years and never made the playoffs.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070709131254.htm currently among all qualifying position players: only 19 who are 35 or older only 13 who are 36 or older only 9 who are 37 or older only 2 who are 38 or older
Not sure why your happy about that and not understanding why ppl here are thinking its impossible to buy Lee out. He stands to make 19 million next year, you can offer him 16-17 and he can go to the AL and make 2 or 3 mil a year. He would want to do it cause he's not getting paid less and would be somewhere where that he's actually wanted. Obviously for the 'stros its good cause thay can move forward. If Crane is so intent about this $60 million he would see that and not let Wade make another dumb move. Btw, I did make a good point in that last post you decided to just grab a soundbyte from, so are you Shawn Hannity by any chance? lol
The problem with saying that other organizations are also adding draft picks and IFA signings, while true, is that they are also graduating prospects to the majors at a comparable clip. The Astros don't have a lot of high end prospects to graduate to the majors in the first place. Altuve was just getting put onto some mid-season prospect lists. Martinez has never been seen as a top 100 guy for whatever reason. Most of the guys that we have now that would go towards increasing our ranking are way down on the farm. So while other teams add 6 prospects and lose 6 that were in the top 200 let's say. We add 6 and lose 2, because we never had many in the first place to lose off the prospect list. Springer, Singleton, Cosart, Obberholtzer, Clemens, Houser, Hallock, Chris Wallace...maybe some of the other guys in rookie ball or DSL(Teoscar Hernandez or Juan Santana maybe) All new members to the top 200 or so or the Astros. Will only be losing Martinez and Altuve of of those lists.
Wow, I didn't realize this was something that every player must abide to! Bourn will be around at 38, he won't be playing at the level he is now but I also wasn't expecting the 'stros to be bad for a whole decade. Why didn't we trade Biggio and Bagwell in 2000 then? These are stats from other players not Bourn. Biggio did ok at center when he was old, his bat didn't go anywhere and I expect the same from Bourn. Face it, we lost a really good center fielder that could have helped this team for years to come and didn't even get top prospects for him
Can someone, with ESPN insider access, post KLaw's review on the deal...just want to see how badly he tore Wade to shreads.
In a trade that sends Houston Astros center fielder Michael Bourn to the Atlanta Braves for a grab bag of prospects, Atlanta has done very well. Bourn is a significant upgrade for the Braves, a team in position to win the wild card despite muddling along with virtually no production from their outfield this year. Bourn's best tool is his glove -- he covers a ton of ground in center and is one of the league's best half-dozen or so defenders at the position. At the plate he has almost no power, but despite that can at least foul off better fastballs that beat most zero-power hitters, and he draws enough walks to keep his OBP up over .340; his OBP of .363 this year would be third in Atlanta's lineup. Bourn is probably worth more than a win to the team during the rest of the regular season, but this move looks like it's more about improving run prevention in the postseason while reducing the number of automatic outs in Atlanta's lineup by one. He's under control through 2012, solving one position for the team for next year as well. The return for Houston however is shockingly poor -- quantity over quality, to say the least -- and can't do Ed Wade any good in extending his status as GM beyond "lame duck." It makes me wonder if Houston had a ranking of Atlanta's top 25 prospects but looked at it upside-down. The best player coming back to the Astros is Brett Oberholtzer, a command-and-control lefty who'll pitch at 87-92 mph with an above-average cutter and changeup; he profiles as a back-end starter, maybe a fourth guy in a mediocre rotation. Centerfielder Jordan Schafer is a former top prospect whose career was derailed by injuries, a PED suspension and mismanagement of his career by Atlanta; he turns 25 in September and has hit .217/.288/.286 since the start of 2009 between Triple-A and the majors. He could be an above-average defender in center in time, but the bat is a real longshot to play every day. (He's also currently out with a broken finger.) Right-hander Paul Clemens has a power arm, throwing 91-96, and will flash an above-average curveball, but the command and control aren't there and he has shown a huge reverse split for two years, getting rocked by right-handed hitters this season to a .284/.370/.460 line. Juan Abreu is a 26-year-old right-handed reliever in Triple-A with a huge arm (he'll touch triple digits) but well below-average control; he was signed as a minor league free agent, which means the Astros could have had him for nothing this offseason. The package is just stuff for a pretty solid big league regular, nowhere near sufficient for a guy like Bourn who has a year and a third of control remaining and will probably remain underpaid by arbitration because the process overvalues power and undervalues defense.
Lee WANTS to stay here, because it close to his ranch and he can play ball without any cares or worries. He doesn't care about being some place he is wanted, and even if he were traded, he would not be paid less than his contract. He won't agree to any buyout. The only thing the Astros can do is force him to sit on the bench and not play him. Hmm... maybe we can send him down to AAA...
Just pointing out the very, very long odds of ANY player to last until they are 38 years old in the majors. Could happen for bourn, but I doubt it.
People need to stop going to the games, there's nothing to see now anyway. This is ****ing embarrassing and the astros FO should be ashamed. Ed wade and the astros are ****ing clown shoes.
**** YOU Ed Wade!! Not sure I could hate you any more than I already do. Maybe someone will go Shawn Chacon on you again.
