2025 Hypothetical Astros Trades Thread

Not the worst plan, but not the best either

 

I have seen Phish twice one even opening up for Dead and Company at my son's request.
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Been to 17 Rush shows. All I smelled there was some good Buda.

 

2B that has not fared well with the shift ban. 6 letters. Starts with an A. His home fanbase loves him.

Seems familiar.

 

I agree that it all hinges on how long Yordan is out.

With 6 playoff spots, at this point it is still very likely that the Astros make it. Then, as long as Yordan is healthy by mid-September you can't trade Framber or Abreu.

If he is out or this team spirals in the next 8 weeks then trade all the rentals.

The more I look the more I am convinced that Dezenzo and Whitcomb are the same player. Only room for 1 of them and no sweat if both are moved as long as its a reasonable return.

While researching Melton I came up with some interesting comps.

Chisholm
Marsh
Will Venable
Carroll
Bellinger

Probably Ks too much for Carroll

Probably too valuable in CF to play 1b like Bellinger ( and more SB but likely fewer HR)

 

I’m fine with all those trades. I think it’s preposterous to say “if Yordan is out until blah blah blah then that means blah blah blah.”
None of that **** matters. We are basically in first place and we gained ground this month with him not playing the entire month. I strongly suspect that someday Arrighetti would come back. LMJ can keep throwing yakkers until his arm breaks. We’ve got Spahn and Spain and pray for rain with brown and Framber, a good bullpen, and I think pretty soon Gordon will be down and Ullola will be up.
like- we are fine. We are making the playoffs, when we get there we need to be healthy and dialed in and from that time on it’s the same coinflip scramble it’s always been.

 

Here’s my hot take. I’ve seen enough of Dana browns talent evaluation to think he’s as good or better than lunwho.

Offer up Alvarez, Valdez, Arrighetti, Caratini,and Walker for the best pick packages and let brown restock the farm completely. Move paredes to first. Put smith at third and bring up Matthew’s to play second.

let altuve dh and play spot duty for the balance of his career.

 

Luis Robert has become a total trash player

 

Marsh has actually been much better than most people realize.

Even with a -0.6 bWAR this year he has averaged 2.2 bWAR per 500 PAs.

He is awful vs LHP and Melton has also been very weak in that part of the game in the minors.

That's not much of an issue for the 2025 Astros because they have Meyers, not to mention only about 30% of pitchers are LH.

Pair that with the fact that he is actually a very good defender in CF.

Then, of course consider that being good overall offensively but terrible vs LHP means you are quite good vs RHP which should be a huge help to this Astros team if it does play out that way.

I agree that Marsh is likely a disappointing outcome, but not disastrous.

 

And then look forward to being a force in 2027 !!

 

Because the most important thing for a MLB contending franchise is to "improve the farm" this year

I don't see how that team stays competitive. I guess if we really wanted to we could go dick around with the A's and Rangers

 

while we are competitive this season, our injuries have limited the ceiling to where we’d be a scrappy playoff team. I don’t see any trades we’d make putting that ceiling in jeopardy. But I do see a talent infusion strategy as a way to significantly improve our outlook and financial flexibility.

 

You love the minor leagues more than the majors. It's pretty obvious.

And that's cool.

 

So you're just trying to expedite that process?