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You are probably right that if anything happens it would strongly lean towards a clear upgrade over what they have. That said, having Ben Gamel...
I’m sad that Alex Bregman will not finish his career with the Astros, but I wish him all the best except when he plays the Astros.
I’ll let Dana Brown and the Astros’ front office handle how to keep the team under the Competitive Balance Tax. I just can’t imagine them running...
You are a lot more bullish on the Angels than any projection model and I am. PECOTA has them projected for 75 wins and ZIPS has them projected for...
I don’t think the Angels view themselves as playoff contenders. A good season for them is playing .500 baseball. As for Yoshida, the Red Sox have...
Good list. Taylor Ward could be another option, and either Masataka Yoshida or George Springer could become options if their clubs are willing to...
Agreed. I’m not in the Astros’ front office, but they were interested in both Anthony Santander and Jurickson Profar as the Bregman pursuit...
I don’t buy this. The Astros have no reason to pull their offer at this point of free agency. Not to mention, local reporters covering the team...
I don’t disagree. I just think it’s embarrassing for a Sports Director at a Houston television station to pass off Buster Olney’s speculation in...
I expect Boras to feed national MLB reporters such as Olney, Passan, Heyman, and Nightengale whatever information he wants, but those in Houston...
McIlvoy is just regurgitating Olney’s comments from the ESPN article earlier today. How hard is it for local media to pick up the phone and call...
It’s so stupid. The Bregman coverage should serve as a reminder that what qualifies as “journalism” is mostly garbage in 2025. These reporters...
At this point, who knows what to believe? You have Ari Alexander saying the Astros increased their offer last week. Tonight Jim Bowden says the...
I’m aware. The Red Sox have been loathe to give out long-term contracts in recent years. They haven’t been operating like a big market team lately.
It makes perfect sense that Boston would be high on Bregman’s list. Fenway Park is a great place to hit, it’s a big market team with a lot of...
I have no idea what Bregman values, but if 256 million dollars over 11 years or more (factoring in his original five-year, 100 million dollar...
That’s all well and good, but what did he expect a professional baseball team would do after more than a month went by, and he refused to budge on...
If Houston and Detroit’s total contract values were really 10M apart, Bregman would be leaving the Astros for 6-7 million dollars, after taxes.
Good to know, and thanks for the clarification.
Assuming the Astros still have their six-year offer on the table, my uneducated guess is this ultimately comes down to Houston and Detroit. For...
