Tatsuya Imai signs with Astros

Brightening news for the new year!!!

 

They are still under the CBT by somewhere between $4M and $12M.

 

So, if he's good, this is just a one-year rental.

 

I didn’t know we had a shot since his stuff was pretty sick last season. Unlike Yamamoto who has always been good, Imai kind of figured it out recently.

From a profile standpoint , he’s an ideal Astros pitcher because his stuff looks different. The Astros love pitchers that throw stuff that behaves differently that you think it should. Javier being the prime example with hai fastball.

 

Right, but smart move by cap-strapped Stros

 

I see them resigning him to a pretty big deal if it works out if someone doesn’t give him Cole money. He’s young enough for it to make sense.

 

not sure if r****ded or you are joking

 

I am old enough to remember thinking Brett Wallace was the future.

 

Interesting. Chandler Rome had not even a hint of a clue about this being a possibility.

 

Will he be Imai-zing?

 

Maybe read the whole thread

 

The Astros are done with pitching for this season and probably the next one too.

 

I have them right at the cap or maybe just a little over.

 

He is the one I was hoping for but only had our chances at around 45-50%.

 

Tapping into that market will get us another chip

 

Exactly

 

One year rental fine , if we clear a little more money off the books and land a capable lefty arm then this will be a great off-season. How much would framber get for one year ?

We don't need money on backup catcher cesar salazar is great imo . He could start over yainer .

Where we are bloated now is still with walker in the IF and with our contracts for Lance and Javier. We can't get rid of them imo , let's hope they do something . Also a little scared of the bullpen , really held up by harder and abreu .. and Josh will be coming off injury.

Brown has done a good job of keeping his true cards close to his chest .

One year rental is safety , but this move coupled with burrows is awesome and could bode a huge shakeup .

If we could get 300 innings from those 2 guys that will transform our rotation. And allow us to really build a dangerous pitching staff.

 

If he is great, he opts out and he is a Met on a huge deal. I have zero problems with this deal.

 

Man, you can never say Crane isn't in it to win.

A decent amount of risk, but as usual it's all about a chip here and now.