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Post by bearbryant on Dec 30, 2019 13:28:54 GMT -6
It's tough for me to envision any club giving Correa a lavish deal in free agency, much less deal blue chip prospects for him given that he struggles to reach 500 plate appearances in any given season Unless they plan to move him to the OF to take the pressure off his lower back
I don’t see why they don’t try him at 3B. There’s less range necessary for the position, you let the ball come to you usually, and you’ve got to have a strong arm, which he does. |
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Post by paastrosfan on Dec 30, 2019 14:44:41 GMT -6
I don’t see why they don’t try him at 3B. There’s less range necessary for the position, you let the ball come to you usually, and you’ve got to have a strong arm, which he does. Probably CC wouldn't have a problem of making the switch to third base. When in the lineup the defense he plays at short cannot be duplicated. The play he cut down LeMahieu at the plate with the ball bouncing off Jose is what he brings to the position. |
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Post by Saint on Dec 30, 2019 15:17:49 GMT -6
It wouldn't surprise me if Carlos caught on with another club who decided to move him off his natural position. Fielders with his ability make the best transition when it's tried Probably CC wouldn't have a problem of making the switch to third base. When in the lineup the defense he plays at short cannot be duplicated. The play he cut down LeMahieu at the plate with the ball bouncing off Jose is what he brings to the position. When he can play the position... |
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Post by paastrosfan on Dec 30, 2019 23:07:09 GMT -6
Probably CC wouldn't have a problem of making the switch to third base. When in the lineup the defense he plays at short cannot be duplicated. The play he cut down LeMahieu at the plate with the ball bouncing off Jose is what he brings to the position. When he can play the position... It would be great if CC could play a season injury free, but you could also say that for George, Jose and Lance. Also in the case with Lance, even if he is injury free I really don't see him pick up the loss of Cole's innings. He is going to have to come up big, to help this pitching staff to be successful. |
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Post by Saint on Dec 31, 2019 11:53:54 GMT -6
Twins sign Homer Bailey and Rich Hill. The Rich Hill deal would have been smart for us as well...
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Post by churchill on Dec 31, 2019 19:44:09 GMT -6
Twins sign Homer Bailey and Rich Hill. The Rich Hill deal would have been smart for us as well... Rich Hill had a alternative to TJ surgery, and won't pitch until June at the earliest.
Hill’s outlook is more uncertain considering he just underwent primary revision surgery to reattach the UCL in his left elbow. The initial prognosis called for the left-hander to be sidelined through at least June of the 2020 season.
“The rehab’s going great. I’m six weeks into it right now and my elbow feels brand new. The one thing about the primary revision surgery is that the internal brace that goes in there as opposed to doing a full revision of the Tommy John surgery, is something that will expedite the months of getting back to the field. As opposed to a full revision of Tommy John, this will only take seven to eight months to get back onto the field. By June, I’m fully expecting to be out there pitching in Major League games.”
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Jan 1, 2020 22:16:00 GMT -6
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Post by thomasj13 on Jan 2, 2020 11:20:18 GMT -6
Feb 1st, 2020, O/U date before Manfred punishes the Astros
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 12:03:07 GMT -6
Feb 1st, 2020, O/U date before Manfred punishes the Astros Over.... The longer we have to wait, the worse the uncertainty hurts the team. COB and the POS other teams will want it that way. I'll go with a mid-ST decison..... 13 Mar 2020. |
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Post by blcoach8 on Jan 2, 2020 12:05:15 GMT -6
Feb 1st, 2020, O/U date before Manfred punishes the Astros Over.... The longer we have to wait, the worse the uncertainty hurts the team. COB and the POS other teams will want it that way. I'll go with a mid-ST decison..... 13 Mar 2020. Manfred will hurt the Astros as much as possible. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 12:17:49 GMT -6
Twins sign Homer Bailey and Rich Hill. The Rich Hill deal would have been smart for us as well... Rich Hill had a alternative to TJ surgery, and won't pitch until June at the earliest.
Hill’s outlook is more uncertain considering he just underwent primary revision surgery to reattach the UCL in his left elbow. The initial prognosis called for the left-hander to be sidelined through at least June of the 2020 season.
“The rehab’s going great. I’m six weeks into it right now and my elbow feels brand new. The one thing about the primary revision surgery is that the internal brace that goes in there as opposed to doing a full revision of the Tommy John surgery, is something that will expedite the months of getting back to the field. As opposed to a full revision of Tommy John, this will only take seven to eight months to get back onto the field. By June, I’m fully expecting to be out there pitching in Major League games.”
Exactly. Considering that McCullers likely won't stay healthy for the full year, you'd have, hopefully, a rested Hill for a playoff run. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 12:26:12 GMT -6
After the Altuve ALCS walkoff against the Yankees, this was Correa in his interview:
“I just asked him [Altuve], “Hey, were you sitting on the slider?” He said, “Yeah.” I was like, “WHAT? Are you crazy? The guy throws 100 miles an hour, and you’re sitting on the slider?”
If you’re reaching for innocence in the cheating scandal, that’s one example. It would be weird for a key player on offense to be left in the dark if rampant systemic cheating were involved that would favor our hitters.
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Post by paastrosfan on Jan 2, 2020 12:39:50 GMT -6
Feb 1st, 2020, O/U date before Manfred punishes the Astros Over.... The longer we have to wait, the worse the uncertainty hurts the team. COB and the POS other teams will want it that way. I'll go with a mid-ST decison..... 13 Mar 2020. Jeff is getting water boarded before the punishment. |
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Post by paastrosfan on Jan 2, 2020 13:05:37 GMT -6
After the Altuve ALCS walkoff against the Yankees, this was Correa in his interview: “I just asked him [Altuve], “Hey, were you sitting on the slider?” He said, “Yeah.” I was like, “WHAT? Are you crazy? The guy throws 100 miles an hour, and you’re sitting on the slider?” If you’re reaching for innocence in the cheating scandal, that’s one example. It would be weird for a key player on offense to be left in the dark if rampant systemic cheating were involved that would favor our hitters. If you watch this clip taken by a fan of Jose's AB looking over all the crowd noise and whistling, it looks like Sanchez is getting the pitch selection from Boone. After every pitch he looks to the dugout for a sign, man what a dead giveaway. How the Stros pick up signs, that is easy pickin's. It could have been as easy to pick what foot Boone had on top of the dugout step for a two pitch thrower like Chapman. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 15:51:50 GMT -6
With our payroll as it is, Luhnow was never going to have much to work with this offseason anyways.
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 15:53:14 GMT -6
With our payroll as it is, Luhnow was never going to have much to work with this offseason anyways. Shut your mouth, Sunshine. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 15:54:18 GMT -6
After the Altuve ALCS walkoff against the Yankees, this was Correa in his interview: “I just asked him [Altuve], “Hey, were you sitting on the slider?” He said, “Yeah.” I was like, “WHAT? Are you crazy? The guy throws 100 miles an hour, and you’re sitting on the slider?” If you’re reaching for innocence in the cheating scandal, that’s one example. It would be weird for a key player on offense to be left in the dark if rampant systemic cheating were involved that would favor our hitters. If you watch this clip taken by a fan of Jose's AB looking over all the crowd noise and whistling, it looks like Sanchez is getting the pitch selection from Boone. After every pitch he looks to the dugout for a sign, man what a dead giveaway. How the Stros pick up signs, that is easy pickin's. It could have been as easy to pick what foot Boone had on top of the dugout step for a two pitch thrower like Chapman. I don’t care what the pitch is, you don’t throw it high to Altuve. That’s just asking for trouble. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 15:56:07 GMT -6
With our payroll as it is, Luhnow was never going to have much to work with this offseason anyways. Shut your mouth, Sunshine. MLB isn't doing anything extra to us. Waiting on the punishment sucks, but we'd hate for it to be rushed and wrong also. Besides, the longer it goes the more they'll learn about other teams as well, I would expect. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 15:57:33 GMT -6
Shut your mouth, Sunshine. MLB isn't doing anything extra to us. Waiting on the punishment sucks, but we'd hate for it to be rushed and wrong also. Besides, the longer it goes the more they'll learn about other teams as well, I would expect. That would be promising if the COB didn’t say they weren’t going to focus on other teams. However, I’m more focused on the team’s lack of moves. Has it just been giving Yuli a raise, McCullers the same pay, and reupping with Smith? I’m surprised they haven’t been ultra-aggressive in case MLB comes down on them hard. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 16:01:04 GMT -6
MLB isn't doing anything extra to us. Waiting on the punishment sucks, but we'd hate for it to be rushed and wrong also. Besides, the longer it goes the more they'll learn about other teams as well, I would expect. That would be promising if the COB didn’t say they weren’t going to focus on other teams. However, I’m more focused on the team’s lack of moves. Has it just been giving Yuli a raise, McCullers the same pay, and reupping with Smith? I’m surprised they haven’t been ultra-aggressive in case MLB comes down on them hard. And they traded Joke for prospects (including a potential reliever for us this year) and signed two catchers. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 16:02:50 GMT -6
That would be promising if the COB didn’t say they weren’t going to focus on other teams. However, I’m more focused on the team’s lack of moves. Has it just been giving Yuli a raise, McCullers the same pay, and reupping with Smith? I’m surprised they haven’t been ultra-aggressive in case MLB comes down on them hard. And they traded Joke for prospects (including a potential reliever for us this year) and signed two catchers. Trading Jake was an automatic bonus, thanks for reminding me. Signing Garneau was meh. Getting Maldonado was a little better than that. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 16:07:26 GMT -6
And they traded Joke for prospects (including a potential reliever for us this year) and signed two catchers. Trading Jake was an automatic bonus, thanks for reminding me. Signing Garneau was meh. Getting Maldonado was a little better than that. We have three solid-good defensive catchers for a little under $5 million this year. If we get their typical defense and doubl digit HRs combined from the position, I'd say we did pretty good for that position. We didn't really need to add offense for 2020. Where it might hurt is after 2020 if we don't find a way to replace Brantley's and Springer's production... |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 16:09:19 GMT -6
Trading Jake was an automatic bonus, thanks for reminding me. Signing Garneau was meh. Getting Maldonado was a little better than that. We have three solid-good defensive catchers for a little under $5 million this year. If we get their typical defense and doubl digit HRs combined from the position, I'd say we did pretty good for that position. We didn't really need to add offense for 2020. Where it might hurt is after 2020 if we don't find a way to replace Brantley's and Springer's production... I mean they have to get Springer back. I don’t care about other additions really besides maybe reupping Harris. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 16:10:54 GMT -6
We have three solid-good defensive catchers for a little under $5 million this year. If we get their typical defense and doubl digit HRs combined from the position, I'd say we did pretty good for that position. We didn't really need to add offense for 2020. Where it might hurt is after 2020 if we don't find a way to replace Brantley's and Springer's production... I mean they have to get Springer back. I don’t care about other additions really besides maybe reupping Harris. I think it's too late. I think if Springer wanted to be back, he'd be extended already. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 16:13:54 GMT -6
I mean they have to get Springer back. I don’t care about other additions really besides maybe reupping Harris. I think it's too late. I think if Springer wanted to be back, he'd be extended already. Well, they’d better go all out then because you can’t just replace an icon like George with some free agent that you probably can’t afford anyway. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 16:17:28 GMT -6
I think it's too late. I think if Springer wanted to be back, he'd be extended already. Well, they’d better go all out then because you can’t just replace an icon like George with some free agent that you probably can’t afford anyway. If George has a similar season to what he has averaged recently (30+ HR .850+ OPS) with solid-good defense, he'll be looking at a Rendon-type deal this offseason, I'd imagine. I'd say 6-years $180 million would be the starting point. |
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 16:25:51 GMT -6
Man, the White Sox have done a really good job this offseason. They've got some potential to take that division if their key pitchers stay healthy.
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Post by olpapa on Jan 2, 2020 20:17:10 GMT -6
Jason Castro headed to the Angels.
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Post by Saint on Jan 2, 2020 20:20:40 GMT -6
Jason Castro headed to the Angels. That's another team that has been really active. They still need some more pitching help though. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jan 2, 2020 21:18:40 GMT -6
The Thrill is gone.
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