Not to put any pressure on him, but this feels like a Jeff bagwell deal where he came into spring and no one expected him to make the team and he switched positions and that was all she wrote.
Ted had a great spring training. Ted got called up and slumped for a bit. Ted is now having a great career. Ted got traded. Now we have a new Ted having a great spring training. Here's to hoping the new Ted has a better career.
Very Cool, I wish I could have watched players like Josh Gibson, Satchell Paige, Buck Leonard and it would have been really cool to see the old barn storming days
I think seeing Paredes start to get time at 2B or Smith start to get time in RF would be a pretty strong sign the Astros are planning to have Smith on the roster.
Only 1 year of minor league ball, only 5 games in AA. Could he really be ready for the Majors right now? I have to figure even if he torches Spring Training they have to let him play more in the minors, right?
Paredes is the Astros 3rd baseman for the next 3 years and is likely to be extended for at least another 3. The outfield is the weakest spot this season with right field being the obvious fit for Smith.
Well heck, you sound pretty sure of yourself. If that’s true then Houston should already have been running Smith out to RF instead of consistently playing him at 3B.
You don't want to yo-yo him around, you'd like to bring him up to stay. That may take a month or more in AAA.
He’ll probably start in AA. I bet he comes up sooner than later, though. Dude looks the part for sure.
I am glad you mention barnstorming in here @ROCKSS because I wanted to respond to @Nook 's Shoeless Joe Jackson post in the locked thread. Man, you made me remember another cool memory of when I visited my grandparents in the summer ('88?) in their small farming town in Western Illinois. My grandpa (born in 1909) told me about the Chicago Black Sox and that when he was my age (12 or 13) he watched a game in which his brother played on the same barnstorming team with Shoeless Joe after he was banned from baseball in 1921. He told me Eddie Cicotte, who also had been banned, was the pitcher that day and was the greatest pitcher he ever saw. This was well before the internet when he told me this and it had never crossed my mind to verify it until I read you guys' posts last night. What do you know?! Check out this awesome story about Shoeless Joe playing for the Colchester, Illinois Reds in a brainstorming game that was organized by the big shot local bootlegger mafia boss, Kelly Wagle, who "worked" with Al Capone. (He ended up gunned down in a drive-by in '29 on the street of this tiny Midwestern town which almost doesn't exist anymore.) Here is the story. It is a condensed version, but with your connections to Chicago, I think you will enjoy the full story if you clink on the link within the link. https://www.visitforgottonia.com/shoeless-joe-jackson-baseballs-black-sox-in-mcdonough-county/
