Not to mention we recycled a mediocre prospect in Fischer for another prospect, a quality reliever, and a potential SP. You have to know the value of your assets at all times and the only way you can know that is if like stocks you don't hold onto losers and have an expected path for that player that they either hit or don't. Luhnow better than almost anyone has found a way to surf through the expected misses and salvage value back in a ton of deals. Only 20% of prospects traded at the deadline have ever had MLB careers. Of those that are stars or quality players more like 5%. Luhnow at this point knows who we can let go and who we can't. People get these initial impressions of prospects when the press builds them up when drafted and then never follow up to find out what actually happened.
Apparently Cole and Greinke are real good friends. Stros are looking to win this season and lure Cole into a cheaper extension !! Chess moves not checkers
Exactly, even if they are all all-stars in the making, reality is you “simply can’t play them all”. As a fan, the Astros seemed to have extracted good/better than perceived value from guys who were on their way out or were ready but blocked... What a genius move!
BTW - Grienke is batting .271 with 3 HR's and a .883 OPS this year. Imagine if we make it to the WS they will make sure he's pitching in an away game for that bat.
Yep, we aren't the Yankees or Dodgers who can afford to stand pat and if their window starts to close can just buy it back open for awhile...we've got to take advantage of having an incredible amount of young, controllable talent on the team. And if worst case scenario we ever have to rebuild, it won't take nearly as long as last time...we'll still have A LOT of attractive pieces to trade.
Correa is going to get moved before free agency, that's my prediction. Toro will be ready to take over 3B and they will re-load the system.
