Astros trade for OF/C Evan Gattis

The Rangers are starting that annoying thing again when they see who we are going after then try to get in on it (e.g. Clemens, Pettitte)

 

I was just thinking how the Astros didn't have enough catchers on the roster.

Putting Gattis in the OF would be terrible. He can't play the OF. Might as well stick Carter or Singleton out in LF.

I think it is a terrible fit, but I also think Ruiz is the one player we gave up that has a reasonable shot at being missed (though Folty has the highest ceiling of the 3).

 

I say put the better of Gattis/Carter at 1B, other at DH, say bye to Singleton (possibly with Fowler or Castro) and get what you can for him. Ideally bringing back a LH bat at 3rd or LF.

 

We are going to have a ton of two and three run homeruns in the first inning next year.

That is if Fowler stays healthy.

 

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Braves fans love this guy.. Everything I've seen about him has been so positive.

 

Not sure how you can dislike this trade.

Gattis is a better home run hitter than pretty much everyone on the roster not named Carter.

He hits his doubles at a rate better than anyone on the roster not named Altuve or Fowler.

His OPS would have been higher than everyone on the team other than Altuve and Springer.

Basically, he is instantly a top 3 or 4 hitter on the team, at worst.

The Astros had about 8 dudes last year that were competing to see who could get closest to the Mendoza line without going over (Krauss won that competition, btw). The fact that we actually have a major league bat added to the roster of 4 other major league bats is pretty exciting.

This move, along with a healthy Springer, puts us at 80 wins.

We're just a Correa and an Appel away from hitting 85-90 wins regularly.

 

Easy there... that presumes that Kuechel and McHugh can both duplicate their ace-like seasons (big if's), and Altuve repeats his historic season of basically getting a hit on anything he puts in play.

I agree they're better with Gattis than without him... but still need a helluva lot to go right to be a .500 or better team.

 

LOL...."Trees began committing suicide in hopes of becoming his bat."

That's some good stuff.

 

Players don't regress once they show ability!

 

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This is getting stupid...

 

I like Gattis! Nice pickup.

Ruiz was totally expendable, given we have Moran and JD Davis.
Thurman has underachieved.
Folty has potential, but probably more of a reliever.

This appears to be a nice deal for Houston.

 

This really concerned me. We'd better not be adding a bad contract.

 

Probably just Luhnow clowning Drellich some more.

 

If we had an average bullpen last year, we would have won at minimum, 5-7 more games. We had the worst bullpen ERA in the majors and gave up the most HR/9 innings in the majors. I cant even count how many times we lost leads in the late innings. The Astros had the worst record in baseball in 1 run games. How much could that 1 run game record been improved with an addition of a solid reliever or the addition of a solid bat? Now imagine if you added both a solid reliever and a solid bat.

Neshek and Gattis will help infuse talent to a lineup that had an incredible amount of black holes. Half the roster shouldnt be in the majors, but we still pulled 70 wins.

Sure, there should be some expected drop off in some of our players, but there should also be some expected improvement in other players. All in all, I dont really think it's far fetched to hit 80 wins. 75 might be more likely, but after the 2013 season, I guessed the Astros would hit 0.500 by 2015...so Im sticking to that. :grin:

 

I absolutely agree. Heck, even before this trade (which I like by the way), I was thinking .500 ball was attainable with a full, healthy, and productive season from George Springer, and a vastly improved bullpen. Now improve our big league team with another power threat, and it makes the climb to .500 that much more realistic. This is an exciting time to be a fan.