Altuve should be in his Edgar Martinez era. Martinez became a full time DH at 32. Extended his career. Played until 41.
This is the hypothetical trade thread so I’m going to pose a question: Would you trade Yordan Alvarez for Ronald Acuna straight up?
Anyone other than Astros fans would say yes immediately from the Astros point of view. Acuna is an elite defender and bat. Yordan is only serviceable at DH at this point. with Yordan’s injury history I would be surprised if he’s effective much past 30 at all. Acuna will be a great to above average player until 35 at least
seems like this team needs to make a run at this year. I hope Alvarez comes back but seems like we should go for it even if he does not.
I mean Yordan is a much better hitter and lesser at everything else. If they are both healthy I’d take Yordan. But, that’s pretty theoretical so Acuna 10/10.
There is a difference between injury from a catastrophic standpoint and from a degenerative standpoint.
