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Valbuena done for the season

Discussion in 'Houston Astros' started by kaleidosky, Aug 23, 2016.

  1. kaleidosky

    kaleidosky Your Tweety Bird dance just cost us a run

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    Unfortunate, but not unexpected given how long it has been

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Astros?src=hash">#Astros</a> manager AJ Hinch says Luis Valbuena will have season-ending surgery on his hamstring.</p>&mdash; Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/768188659568775169">August 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hinch says Valbuena out for year <a href="https://t.co/fm9cukW30W">pic.twitter.com/fm9cukW30W</a></p>&mdash; Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/768188290184937472">August 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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  2. mick fry

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    Farewell Luiz!
     
  3. Fyreball

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    Any word on when Gurriel is going to get back in the lineup?? Between Valbuena and McCullers, injuries are becoming a problem.
     
  4. conquistador#11

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    damn. it was the life starts at 30 thread. =(
     
  5. rocketpower2

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    He gone. I'm gonna miss him.
     
  6. HeyDude

    HeyDude Contributing Member

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    Would've loved to see Valbuena at 1st instead of Reed down the stretch. Even though Reed is picking it up, Val had become a pretty reliable hitter for us. But hey, more opportunity for Reed.
     
  7. Houstunna

    Houstunna The Most Unbiased Fan
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    Valbuena's injury timeline....

    Not serious
    15-Day DL
    Not back after 15
    Not back after 25
    Surgery, out for the year
     
  8. PhiSlammaJamma

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    Wally Pipped. It's over.
     
  9. boozle222

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    If Lou Gehrig was Cuban.
     
  10. edwardc

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    DAM DAM DAM .
     
  11. awc713

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    Will this essentially exclude him from qualifying for a QO? Or may he still qualify? I would love to receive a comp pick for him. I dont see Val in our future. The average age of our infield is 23 years old (Bregman, Correa, Reed, Altuve). Add the addition of Gurriel, and I just don't see the ABs in the future for Val.
     
  12. RasaqBoi

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    Thanks for your time Valbuena. I don't see him coming back.
     
  13. kaleidosky

    kaleidosky Your Tweety Bird dance just cost us a run

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    I don't think you have to "qualify" for a QO. You just offer it to him, or you don't. Will the Astros offer him a potential 1 yr/16-17M deal, when the FA market for a 31 year old who ended the season on the DL might not blow that out of the water? I don't know.

    I could see them thinking "offer Valbuena the deal, because he'd be silly to accept it knowing our infield glut and likely inability to get a long-term deal after next season". But if the long-term offers out there are things like 3 yrs/20M...wouldn't he be silly not to just accept the QO and deal with the consequences?

    Without additional info, I probably wouldn't risk the offer.
     
  14. awc713

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    Yeah, just looked it up. QO is calculated by averaging salaries of 125 highest paid players. Only "qualification" I found is that the player, to be eligible, must've spent the entire previous season with the same ballclub. So, players traded at the deadline cannot receive a QO.
     
  15. J.R.

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: The current estimate is that the qualifying offer for MLB free agents will jump from $15.8m last winter to $16.7m this winter.</p>&mdash; Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/758361771971342336">July 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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    No qualifying offer(s) if it's gonna "blow up" their offseason like Colby Rasmus.
     
  16. Uprising

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    DAMN! Not surprised....good luck Valbuena!
     
  17. xcrunner51

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    Qualify for a QO? The Astros can tag him for the QO if they want. It does make it significantly harder for Valbuena to get a multi-year deal at his age, i.e. turn down the QO.

    I don't seriously see them offering Valgood the QO but i hope they think about it. He was a top 5 bat on this years team and giving that up for nothing sucks. If they think he's worth 2 WAR in the DH/1B/part time 3B role they should give him the QO. No he's probably not worth 16.7m but the limited commitment is really attractive (a la Rasmus).
     
  18. Snake Diggit

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    0% chance Valbuena gets a QO.
     
  19. jim1961

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    Sounds like a Rocket we know.
     
  20. roxallways

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    Unfortunate. He kept this team afloat for a while. He's very likely played his last game for the Astros.
     

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