Are you serious, the Sox won last season? All I'm saying is multiple teams, including the Stros, had more than enough talen to beat the Sox last season.
I don't think that any team would have beaten the SOX last year. They were just in a groove that you don't see very often. It looked like whenever they needed a hit or an out they got it. Not just against us but all the way through the playoffs. They were firing on all cylinders and i doubt even the most stacked team would have contended against them.
Why? Someone has to win. If the Astros won last year, it wouldn't have meant no one was capable of beating the Astros either.
And yet had the playoffs started one week earlier, the world would have seen the White Sox in the midst of one of the worst stretches of baseball that any MLB team had to go thru last year (with the division on the line). But alas, they beat Cleveland in the final series, and the tide turned (which was probably expected, by the law of averages, since they had played too horribly). And thus a microcosm of the micro-world of playoff baseball.
Many people forget this when talking about how great that White Sox team was. In September, they were in the midst of one of the biggest collapses in baseball history, if I remember right. Had a few games turned out differently, they were going to miss the playoffs entirely with Cleveland catching them.
Here's John Lopez's blog for today.....would you consider dealing Hirsch AND Pence for 3 years of Tejada? Astros trade talks heating up again ... ... but does that mean Miguel Tejada, Alfonso Soriano or Carlos Lee is on the way? Still not likely. The buzz emanating from Union Station today is all the cell phones working overtime. The Astros are determined to find some kind of spark. They're trying to hammer out a deal for more offense. However, it seems there is a growing sense of frustration within the Astros offices on two fronts: One, all of the teams with whom the Astros are talking today are asking too much in the Astros' view. For the likes of a Tejada or Soriano, teams are expecting big-time return. You can probably interpret that as Hunter Pence and Jason Hirsch, neither of whom the Astros want to let go. Willy Taveras and Brad Lidge also have been talked about today. And secondly, ESPN is a four-letter word among front-office types right now. Some of the rumors being talked about -- Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte being on the market, for example -- are viewed as complete fabrications by the Astros braintrust. One baseball executive who called to inquire about a rumor involving the Astros was told, "Where are you hearing this?" When he responded that it was on ESPN, the caller was told, "They've got a lot of time to fill right now. Don't believe it." Still, the likelihood of a deal being swung today or tomorrow has grew exponentially overnight.
Here is what was said on ESPN News. Stark thinks there is a good chance Tejada could be traded something he previously thought impossible. Stark said that multiple sources have told him the Astros have majorly stepped up their efforts in the last 24 hours to acquire at bat and he hears they are back onto Tejada. Says it is a two horse race for Tejada. The Angels and the Astros.
Yea I saw that too. Angles have may have the best infield prospects in all of baseball in shortstop Brandon Wood and second baseman Howie Kendrick. Hopefully the Angels get Carlos Lee or Soriano so Tejada's ours.
I think that is were Stark's shock that this might actually happen was coming from. Not from the fact that the Astros and Angels were in pursuit but that the O's might do it. Because as Stark and others have always been quick to point out in the past it isn't wether you can get a deal but if you can get the O's owner Peter Angelos to ok it. And for Stark to actually think this is possible who knows maybe Angelos has softened on his position becuase he is ultimatley going to determine this and not the O's and Astros Gm's.
Would love to get Tejada...but is Soriano a better option? I know it's been said that Tejada is signed for 2 or 3 more years...but the fact that he can demand a trade after the year (because of the rule stating players traded in middle of multi-year deal can demand a trade) places him in same category as Soriano....Soriano has been a much better hitter than Tejada....just some food for thought.
I would love to hve Miguel Tejada and Alfonso Soriano. I would not trade Brad Lidge thuogh. I think Brad Lidge should be FIred and not traded, because I work at Target as a stocker and I would be fired if I messd up like Brad Lidge. SO baseball is no diffrent. I think the Houston Astros are goint to trade Adam Everret and Jeff Bagwell and Jason Hurst. That way we can just FIRE Brad Lidge.
