The Astros have so many issues: no pitching, position mismatches, rookies playing too big of roles. This team is done. If the Astros don't trade yordan (a player who doesn't even contribute on defense), Hunter Brown, pena, pardes and walker, along with Josh hader, they aren't competent. Dude, teams are bombing the Astros every night. Get rid of everyone not named altuve and be done with it.
What is the purpose of not having a fire sale? That would signal the window is closed, and Jim Crane said that as long as he's in charge, the championship window will always be open. Except the window closed a couple of years ago and that breeze we're all feeling is from the ice maker being used on all of these injuries.
Why would we want Dana Brown and his staff conducting a fire sale? Hell no I don’t want a fire sale. Play out the string and let the new GM make those kind of moves.
Your references run deep, although Kyle Tucker never did anything when it mattered. He even screwed up his trade with Cam, can't hit, Smith.
Atleast let this play out until the trade deadline and then make a determination. Unless a team offers up some good young pitching for Pena/Parades I'm not doing anything until the trade deadline.
Yordan WON'T be traded. Period. So many of those guys have no-trade clauses but I expect Dana to try to trade the others eventually.
Baseball is the sport where trading your assets is a colossal waste of time. Prospects mean nothing and you never recover what you are trading. A team with this amount of injuries is not fixable with any coach or any one solution. You always fetishize a rebuild more than actually winning. You can make some decisions for extensions and whatnot but making half-baked trades is not the answer
I don’t trust Dana’s evaluation of talent in the least. This roster has done nothing but slowly deteriorate over his tenure. I don’t know why he is still employed.
I lived in an apartment across from the Murph in the early 90s and let me tell you there’s nothing like a Sheffield homer and that ****ing cannon going off at noon on a weekend when you’re trying to recover from a hangover…. Anyway, I was there during the infamous 92’-93’ Padres “fire sale” and IIRC the only two players they got back from all those trades that were worth a **** were Hoffman and Andy Ashby. (Only two from trades on the team that Won pennant in 98’) They traded away four of their five all stars, only Tony Gwynn remained. All those trades, all the players they got back, (14) five for Sheffield alone, and really only one guy, one guy was a diamond. That’s horrible outcome and more times than not that’s how it plays out.
Why not? There's not going to be a 2027 season so if this season is lost the Astros only have Yordan for the 2028 season.
I would imagine the reason is that the point of sports is entertainment and most fans probably don't care to watch a team that's intentionally losing for 3 or 4 years in the slight hope that maybe they'll be good in 2032. Instead, I think most people would rather root for the players they know and hope they figure out how to be good next year.
Would be incredibly dumb to trade Yordan who is a free agent in 2029 Everyone seems to think the only way to get future stars is to trade away your only elite talent Say hello to Jeff Bagwell and Yordan himself The key isn’t trading away guys you are extremely unlikely to legitimately replace, the key is to acquire the right players
