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Perhaps he's not a worthwhile addition. He also makes $8m this season. Could be Trey Mancini 2.0. But his rental status is what might make him...
O'Hearn is a 30+ platoon-only 1B with a career 2.1 bWAR. He's having a career year, but I think the Astros could afford him. I'm not sure they...
Might be true, but for example, Whitcomb had close to a 1.000 OPS in Sugarland and was striking out only 21% of the time. Might he be able to...
"Given every chance to work out of his slump" is not the same thing as being in the lineup every day, at all. In fact, I think being worked too...
You think the front office has dictated that Walker has to play every single day? He's played 64 of 66 games. Not a single one as a pinch...
Undoubtably those aren't his fault. It is his fault that he plays Walker and Altuve every single day and bats them 3rd and 5th. Perhaps a little...
Walker just needed to put it in the air and couldn’t make contact.
Bunch of singles. One run. Pretty on brand for this offense.
That's fair. I mentioned RP because it's such a volatile position year to year, and aging 1B because we seem fixated on signing them. I think...
In the end, if you sign nobody to big contracts, if you only sign Beltran / Brantley types, you become the Rays or the Royals or the Pirates....
Signing Goldschmidt or Carlos Santana this offseason because Walker didn't work out would be the most Astros free agent thing ever. Plus side,...
Arrighetti has great stuff but little control. I'd love it if he became a TOR guy but he's been BOR every month except for August of last season....
I think the Astros could afford 4/150 this offseason. Going past age 35 on a multiyear contract for a pitcher feels like it could be a big...
In the immortal words of tybrave, "maybe maybe no".
I agree with you that they won't demote Walker, I just think they should. I disagree that Walker hasn't been as bad as Abreu (in his first...
That's like half our lineup that involves hope rather than current production. That's a lot of ifs and buts. And someone will need to step up to...
Trump has a way of connecting with certain groups, and a charisma, that Newsome absolutely lacks. He's polarizing but to a large number of...
I've lived in CA for close to a decade now. Gavin is inauthentic and lacks any self awareness. He's not going to be any galvanizing force. And...
He's unfortunately tanked his own value. I'm not saying those teams (or better) wouldn't take a flyer on him as a reclamation project. But he's...
I didn’t catch the last couple innings, it got late… but he’s got good defensive metrics there and I’ve seen him play a lot over the years. I...
