ESPN INSIDER: Ensberg non moving and Astros no longer into Tejada

I don't wanna see Mo traded. I'd love to have Tejada....ofcourse only if he was to stay for more than the remaining bit of this season.

 

why arent we gonna re sign huff, just let ensberg at the end of the season.

 

I wonder what ARE we doing exactly...

 

Cutting our losses?


Throwing in the towel?


Tanking?


Calling it a season?

 

I don't care WHAT Huffy is batting right now, he's twice as good & disciplined as Ensberg offensively. As a pure hitter, I mean.

If true, that's nuts. Just nuts.


Lets stick with Ausmus & Everett after this year too. Sign them up long term.

 

If I remember right, he's signed through 2009.

 

Morgan has a higher OBP and OPS along with more home runs and RBIs than Huff so far over the year despite the fact that his batting average fell so low. The only person on the team that he trails in OBP, OPS, or HRs is Lance. Wilson and Lance is the only players with more RBIs. I'd have to say Ensberg's more than a disciplined hitter.

If Ensberg could stay healthy I don't think people would be questioning him.

 

That is right, but I think as part of his contract he can demand a trade after this season. I sure hope this s a smokescreen and the stros actually pull this trade off. Something tells me if Hunsicker was the GM here this would get done somehow.

 

yay.

Can we at least get back to .500? That would cure my urge to fire the whole team......

 

Not re-signing Huff kind of sucks, but with Ensberg, Lamb, and Berkman, the Astros have plenty of Corner IFs. I just thought they would throw him into Left.

 

technically, it isn't "news,' it's speculation, and it was posted in another thread.

 

huff has certainly been more consistent. but ensberg has defintely been a more disciplined hitter than huff.

i think ensberg's problems this year are health-related injuries. he needs to recover and get back, soon.

 

That "backpedaled away at the speed of sound" thing is old news.....nothing new here

 

You forgot the last paragraph with the awesome typo:

"The Tigers, meanwhile, are said to not be interested in acquiring Tejada if the Astros stick to their asking price: a package that would begin with Jeremy Bonderman or Justin Verlander, according to Booth Newspapers."

I don't know about you, but I'd gladly take Verlander in order to "allow" Baltimore to trade Tejada to the Tigers.

 

Ensberg's disciplined in the he walks alot, but he also strikes out a lot. Huff does much less of both. This year, Ensberg has 70 strikeouts - Huff has 30, in almost identical number of at-bats. On a team that really suffers from untimely strikeouts, I think Huff is a good change of pace in that he seems to be a good overall contact-guy. It probably is a big part of why he's able to average 100 RBIs a season even in off-years (until this year, of course, with his spectacular 4 RBIs in 12 games with the Astros ).

 

I don't see why this is turning into a Ensberg vs. Huff debate. They can easily keep both (Ensberg still has 2+ years of organizational control), and let Mike Lamb go. Even though Lamb is having a good year, he doesn't have the capability to put up the consistent huge numbers that these other two have in their careers... I'd be fine with letting him go to the AL to DH permanently (only if Ensberg is completely free of his lingering problems).

 

So if Ensberg hists .200, we can pencil .400 in for Huffy?


Like shooting fish in a barrel ..

 

Ensberg changes his batting stance every time he goes in a slump, which is often. He goes months & months without a homer, needs tender loving care from whatever hitting caoch we have at the time, & then reels off 10 in two weeks. He disappeared completely in the WS last year, COMPLETELY ... that's called a lack of discipline, & I wouldn't mind seeing him go bye bye, just not for total peanuts. Get SOMETHING for him.

Huff is one of three players to average 100 RBI's & 30 homers the last 3 or 4 years. Something like that. You saw the stats the day we got him. Someone else can look it up. I'm not.

He's better than Ensberg.

 

E, All of the above...