[Fox 26] Houston Astros Parts Ways with Ty Wigginton

Absolutely ridiculous. I had a feeling this would happen, based on what happened with Wolf and prior Astros' cases, though I didn't say anything. You can't begin to convince me that a .800 OPS+ 3B has zero value.

Unreal. And somehow, they actually did tender Backe. If you need to choose a player to non-tender and cut costs, how in the world do you bring back Backe? He's far, far worse than replacement level.

I give up.

 

Ridiculous. I'm literally laughing.

 

awesome move, couldn't be happier drayton.

 

wow, how wack.

we are going to blow big donkey balls next season.

 

The mismanagement of the Astros continues.

 

Drayton = garbage. One of our highest run producers in the 2nd half dumped.

 

wtf

 

Maybe I need to pay more attention, but I have yet to hear any teams that want to contend next year talking about "economics" as much as the Astros have and bringing up the economy itself every chance they get. Hello, the Astros are supposed to distract me from life's problems, not use them as a scapegoat to save some cash.

 

So, our pitching is still gonna suck...and now our offense took a hit. Yet the organization actually expects to compete next year. Wow.

 

Geoff Blum.

 

Gonna be a long summer of watching yet another losing season thanks to Drayton and his "cost cutting" moves.

I'm beyond sick of of the mismanagement of this organization.

 

what is hilarious to me is that Houston is as recession proof as it gets when you look at the 27 MLB cities but yet we are the first ones to trim payroll

 

Baffling. Wigginton did a GREAT Carlos Lee impression when El Caballo went down.

Please tell me Backe isn't coming back just because he is a local guy and a firebrand in the clubhouse.

I heard Backe interviewed after the last game of the season and even HE acted like he didn't deserve to come back.

I gotta hope we are just in stealth rebuild mode with Wade and Tal just adding some names Drayton has heard of like Hampton to disguise what we are doing.

 

Ugh. If Drayton doesn't want this team to be a winner, than he needs to sell it to someone who does. Ty had a really nice 2nd half of last season (probably the best hitter during that stretch), and you let him go? I guess as long as the people of Houston keep going to the games to watch this team, no matter how they're playing, he has no reason to spend money making this team better.

 

I have two issues with this statement. If this was any type of rebuilding, you trade guys with value for prospects, good or bad, especially when your minor league system sucks as much as our's. We got nothing back for him, just gave him his walking papers and said thanks. I'm also not sure why you're implying that the baseball folks are trying to fool Drayton...

 

Yeah man I can't believe you had to watch those 2 losing seasons since Drayton took over the team in '93. What an outrage, who would stand for that!

 

"He gives us a third baseman for certainly now and the future," Purpura said. "He's under our control this year and two more years. Position players are in hot demand."


Oh Timmy P, if you'd only known.

 

This has to open something else up. Lets just hope the FO knows what its doing. Still can't believe we couldn't get any minor league prospects for him?!