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The 2022 Baseball Season - Things to Come

Discussion in 'Houston Astros' started by jim1961, Oct 14, 2021.

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    Maybe Click has had one foot out the door for whatever reason and Crane was just like "**** it" and approached Luhnow with hat-in-hand and a potential job offer.
     
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    Crane making Stearns happen would be huge. Stearns is as good as Luhnow if not better.
     
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    The rumors of Click possibly not coming back have been out there for weeks, though, and Stearns leaving his current job was only just reported. You think Crane knew that Stearns would come available? Or maybe he was just hoping he would?
     
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    Any baseball fan knows teams have been trying to gain an advantage somehow for decades.

    The national media will continue to say it was just the Astros despite several former and current players saying other teams were cheating too.
     
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    Yeah, but the Astros were REALLY cheating!

    -Jeff AssPan
     
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    Here’s the Giolito clip
     
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    Need a real player willing to ruin his reputation to expose other teams with proof. Or a player once retired needs to do it. Otherwise it’s hearsay that people can choose not to believe.
     
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    Basically MLB wants it to go away.

    They have an interest in having as little negative publicity as possible

    The narrative that the Astros cheating far outpaced other teams AND the other teams stopped after Manfred sent the letter to all teams to stop is what is best for MLB as an organization.

    Therefore they subdue any other reports but can't do anything about the Astros even if they wanted to because there is too much proof out there. It's likely that they even support talking about the Astros cheating history to keep that narrative.

    I think most media members keep talking about it because fans of other teams want to keep hearing it. It's more clicks, eyes, and ears- more popularity and $$$. And for fans it's an excuse and simple hatred toward a rival.

    Its been over 5 years!! There are people out there who have killed people and already served their sentence and been released since it happened.

    Unfortunately we will need to keep hearing it as long as the Astros keep winning. When they are no longer in these playoff games people will stop caring and not need excuses any more.

    I'm fine with staying rent free in everyone's head.
     
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    Necro anger. Let's start bringing up the Black Sox scandal.
     
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    Or maybe Stearns wants to come back and is setting himself up to be able to?

    Especially after Milwaukee refused to let the Mets interview him for a job last year.
     
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    Espada sticking around

     
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    I think Stearns may have left due to the Click reports.
     
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    There were factual problems with his story, though. For example, he said they were using massage guns on metal benches. But they didn't have metal benches that season - they had wood benches. He was also on the opposing team and was responding to accusations by the Rockies that his own team was cheating.
     
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    Not saying anything about this particular situation, but it's far from the 1st that is alleging the same thing.
     
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    https://theathletic.com/3752188/2022/11/04/mlb-free-agents-contract-team-predictions/

    1. Aaron Judge, RF | Contract prediction: 8 years, $330 million
    2. Jacob deGrom, RHP | Contract prediction: 2 years, $90 million with an opt out after Year 1
    3. Justin Verlander, RHP
    Age: 39 | HT: 6-5 WT: 235
    2022 (Astros): WAR: 5.9 ERA: 1.75 IP: 175
    Agent: ISE Baseball 2022 salary: $25 million

    Verlander is the clear favorite to win the AL Cy Young Award, and after proving he’s all the way back after Tommy John surgery in 2020, he should be able to land a three-year contract despite being 39 years old. (He has a $25 million player option, but will hit the open market since he can do much better than that after his standout season.) Verlander led the AL in wins, ERA, WHIP and hits per nine innings. He ranked in the 90th percentile in fastball spin, the 80th percentile in K% and the 94th percentile in BB%. His stuff is still dominating.

    Best fits: Astros, Yankees, Dodgers, Braves, Mets, Orioles
    Contract prediction: 3 years, $135 million

    4. Carlos Correa, SS | Contract prediction: 10 years, $327 million
    5. Trea Turner, SS | Contract prediction: 8 years, $264 million
    6. Xander Bogaerts, SS | Contract prediction: 7 years, $196 million
    7. Carlos Rodón, LHP | Contract prediction: 5 years, $144 million
    8. Edwin Díaz, RHP | Contract prediction: 4 years, $65 million
    9. Dansby Swanson, SS | Contract prediction: 6 years, $154 million
    10. Kodai Senga, RHP | Contract prediction: 3 years, $72 million
    11. Clayton Kershaw, LHP | Contract prediction: 1 year, $20 million
    12. Willson Contreras, C
    Age: 30 | B: R T: R | HT: 6-1 WT: 224
    2022 (Cubs): WAR: 3.9 OPS+: 128
    Agent: Octagon 2022 salary: $9.63 million

    Contreras is the best free-agent catcher. He should be able to land a contract that’s between the four-year $73 million deal Yasmani Grandal signed with the White Sox in 2019 and the four-year, $82 million deal Salvador Perez signed with the Royals in 2021. Contreras batted .243/.349/.466 this season with 23 doubles, 22 home runs and 55 RBIs. He ranked in the 90th percentile in hard-hit rate.

    Best fits: Cardinals, Cubs, Astros, Red Sox
    Contract prediction: 4 years, $78 million

    13. Nathan Eovaldi, RHP | Contract prediction: 4 years, $90 million
    14. Chris Bassitt, RHP | Contract prediction: 4 years, $74 million
    15. Jameson Taillon, RHP | Contract prediction: 4 years, $70 million
    16. Brandon Nimmo, CF | Contract prediction: 5 years, $80 million
    17. Andrew Benintendi, LF | Contract prediction: 5 years, $75 million
    18. José Abreu, 1B | Contract prediction: 2 years, $34 million
    19. Anthony Rizzo, 1B | Contract prediction: 3 years, $54 million
    20. Zach Eflin, RHP | Contract prediction: 3 years, $36 million
    21. Michael Conforto, RF | Contract prediction: 2 years, $34 million with an opt out after Year 1
    22. Kenley Jansen, RHP | Contract prediction: 2 years, $34 million
    23. Martín Pérez, LHP | Contract prediction: 2 years, $24 million
    24. Tyler Anderson, LHP | Contract prediction: 2 years, $24 million
    25. Josh Bell, 1B/DH | Contract prediction: 3 years, $39 million
     
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