Listen to and read every interview with Arrighetti. Look- all pitchers are at danger of shredding an elbow (or apparently getting hit with a line drive during batting practice while out there ****ing around), but that guy works his ass off, he's super smart, he's like a sponge with absolutely everything the Astros give him data wise, and he has good stuff. If I was ever going to bet on anyone maximizing it's abosolutely positively him. Ullola has a 75 grade fastball and it's not velocity related. If a guy can throw a fastball 80% of the time and not get hit hard that's worth it's weight in gold. To me- that's like a 70 or 75 grade hit tool- it gets you way more than half way there. I don't want to trade anyone that can be a Cy young. Especially not for a rental. I'd rather trade Framber, Caratini and pack it in and be a full on seller and punt the season than trade 10 or 11 years of Arrighetti and Ullola for a rental plus a relief pitcher. That's why I'm the hardest possible pass on that. If he's got to be in a deal for a bonafide star with control coming back then fine (I'd swallow hard and put him in a Correa deal) but not for a rental.
I love this as a fan. Having seen Carlos play his last minor game in Colorado Springs and now being in COS to finalize my daughter's wedding, it's seems eerily fated that Correa returns to Houston. This is the kind of move that will excite/ignite the fanbase for the rest of the season as well. Still hoping we add another bat and arm, but getting CC back would be huge.
I will go with the following on arb (if we get Correa). Dubon- non Tender Chas- Non Tender Abreu- 5M Garcia- 3M Okert- 2M Paredes- 11M (he's arb 3) Pena- 8M Meyers- 5M Brown- 7.5M Yainer- 4M Total: 45.5M in arb.
The trade has to have parameters agreed to. No way the Twins hold him out of 2 games and let this speculation run wild and no way Houston’s official beat reporter posts an article about it unless it’s happening.
So you're saying we're on the 2-yard line? I do hope this is a KD-like deal, where we don't give anyone we can't live without.
He was lightheaded yesterday and today. We will trade for him and find out he has uncontrollable Vertigo.
Correa is the one that I miss more than any of the guys that left including Bregman. You could tell he loved Houston. Just not enough to give up a hundred million bucks.
They wouldn’t be giving up picks. Picks can’t be traded in MLB. They’d be giving up prospects. Which they used picks to acquire, but they’d have a better feel for the players they’d be giving up versus any pick.
Out of Bregman, Springer, Correa, Cole, Verlander, Tucker, and all the other players who have come and gone from the Astros over the last 10 years, Correa was the most fun to watch and in my opinion the best baseball player out of all of them.
All of the tree leaves look like MIN loves him and doesn’t want to trade him, even though they are selling this year, unless we give them an offer they can’t refuse. Makes sense. He’s the only star they can (and did) sign. They’re not going to beat out annd sign any other star FA. Give em a few top prospects and call it a day.
My guess: Twins owners had given a mandate to shed payroll; Correa is their only really big contract on the books. Correa has told them he will only approve a trade to Houston. Jim Crane wants him back. So now the only potential ongoing negotiation is not whether or not the trade will happen, but how much money the Twins are eating and which prospects the Astros are giving up. My guess is that the Twins really want a headliner prospect (like Matthews or Melton) to save some face, but there might be a big gap between how much money Houston is asking them to eat in order to give that up and how much money the Twins need to dump.
