I'm still unhappy with Dana Brown for overpaying, but I'll admit that this trade deadline as a whole was crappy for almost all of MLB. There were just many buyers and few sellers. Seller's market. It kinda makes sense that that the few sellers out there would ask for the moon to be willing to trade B-tier or even C-tier talent. I do think the recently-expanded playoffs played a factor in this. In a future season, perhaps MLB should consider pushing back the trade deadline by a few weeks. End of July now seems too early. The Astros handled this past off-season in disappointing fashion, and that came back to bite them. But despite that and this trade deadline, the Astros should still win the AL West, even with Seattle's acquisitions like Arozarena and Turner. I'm less confident about how far the Astros can go in the playoffs (partly due to Espada), but anything can happen.
Astros wanted Click gone, they got that and seemingly want Brown gone too. Whats your point? Teams should do what fans say? Luis Castillo and Arozarena? Or are you talking about a backup catcher in Garver?
Yep. Your 1-26 better be stacked and every member of your AAA roster should be someone you expect to be able to help you on short notice.
I don’t remember fans wanting Click gone so that’s false. Don’t remember anyone complaining about him. Lmao just this past off season he signed Garver to be their DH and paid him $12M. They started using him as a backup catcher more recently because he claimed he thought it helped with his hitting…he’s hitting well under .200. He traded for Mitch Haniger, also under .200. Traded for Polanco, been below .200 all season until this last week or so. There’s a reason they have literally the worst offense in baseball outside the White Sox. It wasn’t through “great moves” like you somehow believe he’s been making.
Whatever. Glad we didn’t trade Melton, Matthews, Dezenzo, or the kid who is blowing 100 mph fastballs by everyone and quickly rising through the system for a rental or someone who’s only controllable thru next year. If this team is going to make any kind of noise this year we were always going to need a healthy Verlander, Tucker, and one of Garcia/McCullers down the stretch.
A big part of the problem is we really don’t know if Garcia will actually join the team To some extent same with JV Tucker likely comes back, but Dana himself said hopefully by September We are in a dogfight to make the playoffs Our decade of success has made some just assume we will make it
Firstly, my main point was him jumping on trades well earlier than other teams being a plus, not that he makes "great moves" as you view me saying it, thats how he netted Castillo and Arozarena. As far as signings go, the garver signing was viewed as a big plus by everybody and 12mil nowadays aint that much, sometimes things just dont work out, just look at us and Abreu. Until this year, Garver had an .800+ ops. Polanco has always been a solid middle infielder with a good bat and wasnt there a need because of injury? As far as their offense is concerned, it doesnt help that your main star is playing way below his talent, although he did this last year too and went off in the second half. I mean give credit where credit is due. Dipoto is a pretty damn good gm. Hes built a stud rotation and ran into some bad luck with bats falling off the face of the earth(France, Garver, julio). It also doesnt help that hes had the Astros in front of him for the better of 3 years in this division with Luhnows fingerprints still lingering. Its not like hes been out of any of those division races for the last 3 years either. If anything, hes set it up better going forward than any other team in this division for the next few years.
