Yulieski Gurriel agrees to 5/$47M deal with the Astros

0 for 5 two games in a row for Gurriel

 

Sadly, it's the same situation as last week.

Maybe Gurriel needs 10 more games first.... smh

 

It's Gurriel time
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Astros will calll up Yulieski Gurriel on Sunday. AJ Hinch said he will be in the lineup.</p>&mdash; Houston Astros (@astros) <a href="https://twitter.com/astros/status/767190495927951360">August 21, 2016</a></blockquote>
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White sent down

 

DHing tomorrow!!!

Hinch said Gurriel has had about 50 ABs, a normal ST for him, and he's physically ready.

Hope he's a smash before long ala Bregman.

 

I guess he's ready!

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hinch says Gurriel will likely DH tomorrow.</p>&mdash; Julia Morales (@JuliaMorales) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaMorales/status/767189921308282881" data-datetime="2016-08-21T02:41:45+00:00">August 21, 2016</a></blockquote>
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May not be ready, but he's no young pup. Dudes doesn't have two years to figure things out in the minors. He's got to get his feet wet with ML stars.

 

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Here goes nothing...

 

Astros pretty much are going all in. McCullers needs to come back. Now, who is going to be the closer ?!

 

Giles, I hope

 

Bring back McCullers as closer for rest of year. Keep that pitch count down :grin:

 

This may well be the guy that defines Luhnow's tenure. If Gulieski is a flop the Astros are kind of screwed. Rusney Castillo and Hector Olivera signed bigger deals than Gulieski and they flopped huge so Gulieski isn't a given.

 

He did go 1-5 in his last AAA game, so there is that.

 

Certainly a defining move, but probably not one that can be taken on its own to draw conclusions about Luhnow. Especially if he ends up signing Lourdes, judgement will have to wait until that pans out. But I agree $50M deals are significant for Houston and they really can't afford to have those players go belly up, would be pretty damning for the GM.

 

Luhnow will certainly receive criticism if Gurriel struggles, but the Astros wouldn't be screwed. It isn't THAT big a contract and the minor league system (especially low minors) is very robust.

While it is known the Astros nearly won the Abreu derby... Luhnow also really wanted Rusney Castillo.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hinch said Gurriel left with right hamstring tightness</p>&mdash; Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/767524987381112832" data-datetime="2016-08-22T00:53:11+00:00">August 22, 2016</a></blockquote>
<script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Gurriel said he doesn't think it's serious and he could play tomorrow. AJ hinted he might be off tomorrow anyway</p>&mdash; Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/767527275260682241" data-datetime="2016-08-22T01:02:17+00:00">August 22, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Gurriel had a good debut... hopefully healthy.

 

Isn't the next series in an NL park? No DH, Bregman seems to have 3B locked down, so how does Gurriel get in the line up? LF?

 

Didn't they say he can play 1st base too?