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#11751
SOURCE: #Pirates & #BlueJays have had conversations regarding a Vlad Guerrero Jr. Source said PIT’s package of prospects would likely look close to this:-2B Termarr Johnson-LHP Anthony Solometo-RHP Braxton Ashcraft-RHP Zander Mueth #MLBTradeDeadline @mlbtraderumors

 

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#11753
Ryan Pressly let him vent on the plane ride home from Kansas City. Alex Bregman explained why a sinker would be beneficial and encouraged him to throw it. Hunter Brown listened. Here’s the story of Brown’s remarkable turnaround - https://t.co/wpKias6e72

 

#11754
5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
Ryan Pressly let him vent on the plane ride home from Kansas City. Alex Bregman explained why a sinker would be beneficial and encouraged him to throw it. Hunter Brown listened. Here’s the story of Brown’s remarkable turnaround - https://t.co/wpKias6e72

 

Experience is the teacher of science?

#11755

Episode 68. We celebrate breaking 500 and talk about the reasons behind the the rise including Bregman, Yainer, brown, Yordan and JAKE!

 

 

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#11756
12 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
SOURCE: #Pirates & #BlueJays have had conversations regarding a Vlad Guerrero Jr. Source said PIT’s package of prospects would likely look close to this:-2B Termarr Johnson-LHP Anthony Solometo-RHP Braxton Ashcraft-RHP Zander Mueth #MLBTradeDeadline @mlbtraderumors

 

That’s fangraphs #3, 6, 13, and 16 prospects from Pittsburgh.  A big factor on evaluating that would be if Toronto is eating any of Vlad’s remaining 2024 money.  An equivalent package from Houston would be something like IF Brice Matthews, P AJ Blubaugh, P Miguel Ullola, and P Alonzo Tredwell.  That’s a steep cost for an expensive 1B, but I would be ok with that especially if Toronto ate most of the remaining money.

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#11758
23 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

Yeah, no thanks.  I’d rather chase a pitcher.

Adding Bassitt or Gausman (or even Kikuchi) to Vlad and increasing the prospect package a bit seems to make a lot of sense to me, if Crane is down to stretch the payroll.  It would also put Arrighetti (or Bloss) in play as a trade chip which would lessen the burden on the position player side of the farm to get the trade done.

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#11759
25 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Adding Bassitt or Gausman

I actually just want Gausman and for Toronto to chip in on the ‘25 salary for someone like Melton straight up (I’m not a believer, sell high).  That said, Gausman had a ROUGH June and might be hurt and we have plenty of those already.  

#11760
14 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

I actually just want Gausman and for Toronto to chip in on the ‘25 salary for someone like Melton straight up (I’m not a believer, sell high).  That said, Gausman had a ROUGH June and might be hurt and we have plenty of those already.  

Or you could include Montero to help with the salary. We could always take back a reunion with Yimi.

#11761
A.J. Blubaugh will represent the Astros at the Futures Game in Arlington during All-Star week. Blubaugh has a 3.53 ERA in 66.1 Triple-A innings this season.

 

#11762

31 years since y'all hosted Lord Stanley's Cup nice job at the one sport you frost bitten hoseheads care about.
 

 

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#11766

Great news …..

Luis Garcia will make his second minor-league rehab start on Thursday for Double-A Corpus Christi, Joe Espada told @SportsTalk790

 

#11767
22 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Great news …..

Luis Garcia will make his second minor-league rehab start on Thursday for Double-A Corpus Christi, Joe Espada told @SportsTalk790

 

I ‘member when Urquidy made a second minor-league rehab start….

 

#11769
4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

So Tucker has a broken leg ?

anyone else thinking this ?

 No.

but:

 

How long does it take for a bone bruise to heal?
 
 
Most bone bruises usually heal within 3 months, although some may take up to a year to completely go away.
 

 
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#11770
4 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

That’s fangraphs #3, 6, 13, and 16 prospects from Pittsburgh.  A big factor on evaluating that would be if Toronto is eating any of Vlad’s remaining 2024 money.  An equivalent package from Houston would be something like IF Brice Matthews, P AJ Blubaugh, P Miguel Ullola, and P Alonzo Tredwell.  That’s a steep cost for an expensive 1B, but I would be ok with that especially if Toronto ate most of the remaining money.

That's a lot and I would probably do it- but I'd try really hard to keep Ullola out of the package.  Melton, Matthews Blubah and Tredwell if Toronto takes back Montero and Graveman and kicks in $10M for next year.  If they aren't going to send back any money or take any bad contracts I think it's: Pick whatever position player you want in the minors and pick whatever pitcher you want in the minors as my top offer. 

#11772
1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

Orange colored glasses

 

it’s trash 

Nah.  It might lack superstar players but it's going to be an assembly line of competent major league position players and pitchers that are regular starters. That's valuable on club control.  Allows you to pay your superstars if you extend them at the right time.  

I guess if you just want to talk about high end potential star then you can say it's trash.  But, with the development team and the pitchers I'm not going to say it isn't possible that they won't turn someone into a star. 

The system has been considered "trash" for the last 3 years and it's given you:  Chas, Jake, Pena, Diaz, Salazar, Loperfido, Garcia, Brown, Arrighetti, France (huge last year), Blanco- Diaz was a trade but I'd give us the lions share of development- he came over as an A ball dude so I'm going to say he counts in the same way Yordan counts as home grown and developed.    That group collectively makes about 10M and that's going to produce something like 20 War this year.

Guys I think can do similar coming up out of this system that's considered trash:

Dezenzo, Whitcomb, Wagner,  Leon, Melton, Mathews (I bet you have 3 MLB regulars out of that group and I bet you have 2 fringe guys- who knows which is which)

PItching- Ullola- potential ace- potential bust- I like him and I'm betting on him and our development staff.  Bloss, Blubaugh, Tredwell, Kouba, Gordon- those guys will see time at the big league level and so will some pitchers you've never heard of in our system.

I think Baez has star level talent- I'm dreaming on him- but he could also never make it to the bigs.  

The Astros system is very good at developing guys to contribute at the big league level.  Dana Brown is a swing big type so I assume he's going to be looking at trying to find some top end talent that's special but more likley to bust.  I also really like the kid from Houston Ochoa in the 11th round. He's hitting bombs at A ball as an 18 year old and he throws 95 MPH on the mound so you know he's got the arm that drives everyone around here nuts about Jake and Chas.  That's a guy you should be happy every time you add one like him to the system as if you do that every year you only need 1 if 5 of 6 to really hit and you are in good shape.  

 

 

#11773
41 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I ‘member when Urquidy made a second minor-league rehab start….

 

He didn't actually have surgery though- he was trying to pitch through it with rest and rehab- right?  Guys that have actually had the survey come back and  are basically their normal selves like 90% of the time.  We should be ok (knock on wood- take it with a huge grain of sand).

#11778

Kessinger up 

Hummel down

 

 

Astros vs. Blue Jays RHP Berríos:

2B Altuve, 3B Bregman, LF Alvarez, DH Diaz, CF Meyers, 1B Singleton, SS Peña, RF Loperfido, C Salazar. P Arrighetti.

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#11780
Joe Espada on Kyle Tucker: "I'm hopeful in the next couple days you could see him come out here, and he was talking about potentially running a bit. The speed of the last couple days, it's actually progressing faster than we had in the last couple days."

 

#11788

This needs to be his last start this season for the Astros. He needs more work on controling his pitches. Maybe trying max velocity/max spin on every pitch is a horrible fucking idea.

#11792
9 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

Three months' of run differential gone in just a couple hours. 

Jeez. Am at my son’s game. Checked in couple of innings ago 1-0, just checked back 7-0. Putting phone away. 

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