I feel extremely confident that we will be able to find two serviceable playoff starters between Walter, Javier, Garcia, France, Lance, and Arrighetti. I do not have the same confidence in our lineup. I don't even think the priority level is comparable.
What’s our lineup? If everyone’s healthy it’s fine. If nobody is healthy you can’t trade for enough to be fine.
Unless they don’t think Pena, Paredes, or Alvarez will be back, I think Houston needs to be opportunistic. This playoff roster doesn’t bother me: SS Pena 3B Paredes DH Alvarez 2B/LF Altuve 1B Walker C Caratini/Diaz RF Smith LF/2B Melton/Matthews CF Trammell/Dubon 13th man: 1 of Hummel, Salazar, Short, or Guillorme SP Valdez, Brown, Walter, 1 of Arrighetti, Javier, McCullers, Gordon, Gusto, or Garcia RP Hader, Abreu, King, Sousa, Okert, Neris, 3 of Arrighetti, Javier, McCullers, Gordon, Gusto, or Garcia Whichever of those position players they don’t think will be healthy by ~Sep 10th, they should make a trade to replace.
Apparently the asking price is high. What I don't get is, if the price isn't met, they might hold onto him and try to re sign him in the off season. Why not trade him and get assets and try to sign him as a free agent? If Astros got him, would be funny because it prevented the Yankees and Mariners from acquiring him. But would also mean Paredes is done for the season.
Why would it mean Paredes is done for the season? You can just play Yordan in LF during the playoffs and Suarez or Paredes at DH. It’s not going to happen though
So you have Paredes coming back and meyers not. I’d definitely take that lineup right now no questions asked
Suarez and 2M (or 3.5 M if they don’t want Chas) for Chas, Gordon, Gusto, Blubaugh and King. Probably not enough, right? I have to think they will want almost all pitching from us. Blubaugh, Fleury and Pecko? Either of those packages enough?
I think people underestimate Pecko’s value. He is a really good pitching prospect. Just my opinion, but I think that package you listed (Blubaugh, Pecko, Fleury) is very steep but also very accurate as to what it would take to get it done. That is a ****load of pitching talent to give up for a rental bat.
Yeah. It does keep Ullola in the organization. If I knew Peña and Alvarez would be healthy and one of Jake and Melton an average hitting good defensive CF by playoff time I’d do it. So hard to know how many chips to push in without any certainty on Yordan. Pena will be back the question is if his career year will continue and he gets back to the form he was in before playoffs.
Houston basically has 3 of the top 100 position players in baseball on the shelf for an unknown length, and that doesn’t include Meyers. Very very difficult position to be in.
Looks like it's that Bonda guy. No idea if he has sources. I remember him predicting 1 trade before it happened. Did he have sources or took a guess?? I'll put him along that Schwab guy. Could claim to have sources and put out a rumor but I won't believe it until I see a established reporter report it.
He is a really good athlete, his release point/angle is hard to pick up and his fastball pops up late in the zone. It makes it very hard for hitters to sit on or make solid contact with. Because he is a good athlete and his fastball moves late, he can go to it a lot and even at lower velocities it is hard to square up on. He doesn’t give up hard contact very often- it is really a massive security blanket for him because the hitter knows it’s coming and it doesn’t matter. The late movement does lead to more walks though.
I personally think the Mariners have a top 5 farm system. I think they paid a lot for Naylor. I get why, they need to break through and neither pitcher they gave up will be a star, but I do think they are top 6-9 guys in about half the systems.
Luckily Naylor is no steely veteran bringing winning culture or great on defense. Bonafied knucklehead which brings positively energy but mental lapses and irritation. Also hopefully in walk year he will be looking more for his own stats than what the sit. and score is in games.
So this looks like where there’s some Correa smoke. I assume this dude is full of ****. BUT. A few things I do think are true: -Jim Crane has traded for guys who left before (JV Mets) -The guaranteed portion of Correa’s contract (~$110/4yrs) is something Crane would approve taking on. -Correa has a NTC and it’s believable that he’d only waive it for Houston. Both his family and his in-laws still live there. -Minnesota are positioned as deadline sellers and might be willing to trade him considering they are selling the team and have other options for SS. It would be the most impactful trade in franchise history. I don’t think there’s a ton of surplus value there so it’d be more of Crane just approving the money and going way over the tax. It would cost Houston a 2nd round pick since Framber's QO pick would get pushed back to a 4th rounder. I also don’t know how Correa would feel about changing positions and how they’d fit everybody in. Assuming Correa would play 3B and Paredes would move to 2B when he came back. But that’s the main component that makes it not believable. Fun to dream tho…
