Verlander would counter that his injury happened because he pushed himself on short rest in '19 for the team and that was what caused his injury. I also think he would think that he could make a team like the Angels a championship contender. There will be no discounts, imo.
Will be interesting to see if any FA are willing to sign with Houston. You'd like to think that $ talks. Many have said they've moved on and the issue is in the past. Sounds good but they're just words. One thing trading for someone as most of them don't have a say in the matter. A FA who can choose where he'd like to sign? Whole different matter. We have $ to spend and it's going to be interesting to see if any of the big FA are willing to sign here.
Hmm. Not sure I believe this. But if it’s true that’s gotta be a big blow to the odds Houston re-signs JV.
Brantley signed with them as a free agent, even after experiencing the online and media hate they got in 2020.
I'm not talking about our own FA. Like I said we're about to find out because the Stros certainly have $ to throw around.
JV didn’t even want to be an Astro. He had to be convinced to drop his no trade clause and it took all the way to the last second of the deadline. He just doesn’t dig the city.
He wasn't the Astros own free agent, other than the fact he last played for them. Any one of the 30 teams could have signed him, especially considering the Astros didn't give him a QO.
And yet he signed a 2 year extension after re-igniting his career? People forgot how he had become quite pedestrian in 2017 with the Tigers. He wasn’t washed up… but nobody expected him to dominate (and win another CYA) the way he did after the Astros acquired him.
I'm not going back and forth with you on this. He was one of our own FA. He resigned with us. Let's see if someone from another team does this.
So if the Astros do nothing this free agent period other than sign Correa, Verlander and a couple of minor free agents, will this somehow prove your point?
If Berrios was a FA… given his age and projectibilty moving forward, he would have been likely the biggest and best “long term” investment on the market. This contract is about an 18.7 AAV and combined with the Rodriguez deal, likely has set the pitching market through free agency
That is a steal; essentially works out to ~$120M/6yrs for Berrios in free agency after the season. For a guy who has been so durable and good who would be a free agent at 28, that looks to me like >20% discount on his open market value. Huge win for the Blue Jays.
Yes; but his re-signing with the Astros does, at least to some degree, derail any notion the team might be poisonous to prospective free agents. I don't think they will - a) $$ talks; b) the fans and media are far more invested in the cheating bullshit than players, who ALL know full-well the Astros were not alone.
