Y'all really want to be on the hook for $33 million a year for potentially the next 7 years for a player who isn't very productive at age 31? I know it's fun to reminisce and all, but you people need to come to your bloody senses. He's on pace for 46 RBIs in 500 ABs. He's only gonna go downhill from here. Y'all better pray this deal doesn't happen. And it isn't happening.
I'm telling yall....Padres, Mariners, and Blue Jays splash around prospects at the deadline like they're at a blind auction every year, and every year they just end up getting dicked in the playoffs. It's on repeat at this point.
Surely this is trolling. But at a minimum, you know the last 4 years of his contract are vesting options that the team can easily ensure don’t vest.
If Correa is not traded to Houston today, it will have been extremely odd that the Astros allowed Brian McTaggart to post 2 articles across multiple days that focused on the potential to bring back Correa.
I’m hoping for an exciting day. I hope Dana and Crane push some chips in to make this team built for October. Everyone likes to crap on our farm system, but they have pieces to make the right deal. Guys like Ken Rosenthal like to push this narrative that Houston has nothing to play with, and I think it’s BS.
I think that if we stay under the CBT this year , crane HAS to go over next year and resign framber ...trade for Correa etc . As much as I want to go for it , and we are in first place I can understand a punt given injuries to , well, everyone . But then you go ****ing hard in 2026
I think correa is a talented player who may have benefited tremendously from the sign stealing. I am also personally OK with not bringing back any of the players from that era as much as I liked correa, bregman and springer.
I don’t care if he did or didn’t benefit personally. He’s still an excellent player and the leader this team needs. The length of his contract will not be the length of his contract listed as he has certain incentives that give the team an out which he won’t meet. Plus twins will either have to take back salary from the Astros like Lance McCullers, or pay a salary down for us to be able to make the deal anyway so it’ll be a good deal for us.
You are completely misstating his contract man. Also, the twins would throw in money. I can’t imagine houston would be on the hook for more than 3/75. Absolutely at the most 3/90.
He's just unhappy it would give him less opportunities to complain about the daily lineup if Correa's in there.
Snake, what if instead of giving us money the twins traded for Abreu and LMJ (that’s like 7M remaining to abate and 23m owed to LMJ). Would we get to take off 11M owed to them this year from the books and use that to pay Carlos 11M owed to him this year and stay under the tax?
This ignores the fact that the vast majority of prospects amount to nothing. Yes, getting players only increases your WS odds by a little bit. But keeping those prospects also only increases your future WS chances by a little bit. Think about all the prospects we've given away in all these trades for stars over the years - Verlander, Cole, Greinke, Verlander (again), etc. Do we regret any of those moves? Did any of those guys go on to become worth more than those stars were worth to us? The point of a farm system is to help build your MLB team - part of that is by bringing up prospects, but part is also by using them to get established players. Teams that are contending annually like the Astros don't always have the MLB playing time to develop a prospect anyway. Musgrove is an example of one of the few players that ultimately panned out, but you'd have to have run him out there for 3 years in 2018-2020 as a mediocre starter to ever see results (by which time he'd soon be a free agent anyway). Instead, the Astros got 2 years of Cole and extended their dominance and made it to game 7 of a WS.
Correa posted an .844 OPS in the three definitive post-cheating seasons ('19-'21). His first year in Minnesota, he posted an .834 OPS and last year, .905. With Correa, his issues are 100% health.
I suppose they could have done it to create urgency with Baltimore to let go of Urias at a lesser cost. Also, the articles are a double edged sword. If the trade for Correa doesn’t come to pass, some fans will be mad and disappointed it didn’t happen, others will give credit for trying. I assume there will be more of the former than the latter, but it cuts both ways sometimes. I’m still thinking something impactful happens today. We have had a track record of activity at the deadline beyond a single Urias acquisition.
