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Polanco is easy to look at now, but this winter, he had just finished his 4th straight season of decline, was on the wrong side of 30, and his OPS...
Making death threats is a crime, and I'm pretty sure its harder to be anonymous to law enforcement these days on social media. Charging some of...
On a side note, I'm not familiar with how pre-arb salaries work, but it seems weird that Brown is making less money this year than he did last??...
Agree completely - it's just disappointing that the Astros didn't seem to be able to adjust and see those weaknesses, whereas Astros' hitters all...
That all said, the ESPN article about Brown's transformation last year was an interesting puff piece, but I thought it actually was kind of...
Absolutely - but that's the only way you get guys cheap. The Astros have to be able to see that Brown is *going* to be good before he actually...
Buy low, sell high. Extending people or signing free agents after career years is a great way to overpay nearly 100% of the time. If you believe...
Are you under the impression that a team that was going all-in on this year by trading for Tucker was going to trade away their best hitter to get...
Is it though? 2024 was 1 vs 1. 2023 was 6 vs 6. 2022 was 1 vs 6. 2021 was 2 vs 3. There's as many 6 seeds as 1 seeds making the WS since the...
The Astros managed in 2022 with Maldy and Gurriel being awful all season. All it takes is being decent enough to make the playoffs and then...
They were below 0.500 at the end of June last year and still won the division by 3+ games. People write obituaries for teams all the time for no...
Two GMs and two managers seem to all agree how to use him over multiple years. You not willing to accept it doesn't mean an entire organization is...
Sure he does - every team has a backup OF or two. That's Chas on the Astros. He gets an occasional start and is a defensive substitution in close...
He's not a player who's earned an automatic starting gig - his only success in his career was when he had to fight for playing time and was being...
Sure - if you make up hypothetical numbers that fit the narrative you want to create, your narrative will work. The problem is that it's all...
Would be interesting if true, but like everything involving Dusty, facts gets thrown by the wayside to support whatever narrative people want to...
At some point, it seems worth starting to ask if there's any point in recruiting freshmen. Most players it seems transfer at some point in their...
That would mean the Astros would have won 4 more games so far. Since he's essentially a replacement level player right now, that would mean 4 WAR...
Eh - anyone who saw him play in college knows he's miles better than a Dillon Gabriel or Jalen Milroe, both on the field and as an NFL prospect....
This goes against the entire history of what anyone in baseball ever does. Defensive subs are made late in close games when teams have leads....
