I know posters like to hold onto their fan favorites, but this would actually be a very smart thing to do.
"quite"??? I mean he did have a major league career... so by default, he was in the top percentile of performance of all prospects out there.... but I think you know what posters here really hope these guys can turn into when there's "excitement" surrounding a younger player. But its fully acceptable to realize simply having a 10 year baseball career IS making it... even if you're a journeyman going on year to year contracts.
I never looked at Grossman's upside as more than a slightly above avg MLB player. He played up to his talent level and made a lot of money in the process. Kudos to him. I see Meyers in the same light.
When Grossman was Meyers age, he'd already been in the league 5 years with nearly 1400AB's... (meyers has 605). Ironically Grossman has maybe just now exceeded in career earnings what Luhnow originally wanted to give him to buy out his arbitration years/etc. (similar contract that Singleton got... was also offered to Matt Dominguez). edit: guess he got that guaranteed detroit deal 3 years ago that finally pushed him over that initial deal.
No doubt. If you had bet me back in the day "will RG spend 5 years in the bigs?", I would have taken the under. He has 1 year to go until he gets his 10, seems like a lock at this point.
Robbie Grossman was someone that scouts would call "close". He walked a lot, and the Astros and a lot of scouts thought the power would come... So they thought he would be an 850-950 OPS type guy in his prime if he has hit 30 homers a year. Still, in hindsight, he stuck around a long time and was an average to slightly above average big leaguer.
You know what sucks about Robbie. I owned him my whole pitching career in summer league ball. 13-17 years old. He hit a 400 foot bomb off me in my sophmore year playoffs in highschool when we played him. Was not a friendly get back moment.
Robbie Grossman has earned 21 million playing MLB. He will get paid this year too. He will get his 10 year pension. very successful career.
The most I’d want Houston to offer Snell is something like $130M/5yrs guaranteed with the ability to earn up to an additional $5M/yr for inning and award incentives. I’d be willing to give an opt out after years 3 and 4. I would be shocked if that’s the most he gets offered.
His goal is around that that. He said he hopes to be back by July. All Star game is July 16th I believe. I can't see him retiring. But if he comes back as a starter and suffers another injury, maybe he finally settles for being a relief pitcher. No idea if the training is the same
