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    Pretty perfect game to take a three year old to. Was over before he got too bored and got to see a couple homers. Thanks @UTPhil2006 for the suggestion about the first game certificate, had plenty of

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    Planet Houston

    I’m just glad I survived another season of being the official thread starter. Thank you all for your continued support in this emotional time.   In more ways than one with tonight’s result:

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#4861

Valdez (3), Verlander (2), Javier (4), Blanco (5) have started half of the #Astros 28 games. Their numbers in 14 starts: 7-0, 1.83 ERA, 83.2 IP

Other starters numbers: 0-10, 9.49 ERA, 54 IP *(Brown, France, Arrighetti, Henley)

Bullpen: 2-9, 4.95 ERA, 107.1 IP


Team: 9-19, 4.92 ERA

#4862
BREAKING:#Astros OF/1B prospect Joey Loperfido is getting called up to the major leagues, multiple sources tell KPRC 2.


 

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#4864

So Cabbage is booted....who will get das boot for him? Waste of space Kessinger?

I still don't see them DFA Abreu, hope I am wrong

#4866
Four of the five White Sox wins are with him behind the plate (before you get all worked up and pissy, just accept this as a troll tweet and move on).

😂😂😂😂

#4868
23 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Valdez (3), Verlander (2), Javier (4), Blanco (5) have started half of the #Astros 28 games. Their numbers in 14 starts: 7-0, 1.83 ERA, 83.2 IP

Tell those 4 to stop getting hurt

#4871
1 minute ago, WBT said:

Meh.  Loperfido is going to put up a Chris Carter like K rate

The @astros are reportedly calling up their No. 6 prospect, Joey Loperfido, per @brianmctaggart.Loperfido hit his 13th homer of the season Sunday -- the most in MiLB or MLB: https://t.co/hMif2HwzoD

 

#4872
3 minutes ago, WBT said:

Meh.  Loperfido is going to put up a Chris Carter like K rate

Abreu makes me look longingly at 2015 Chris Carter. 

#4874

Trade bait ?

479 foot home run from Pedro Leon yesterday. He's batting .313 with 9 HR and 26 RBI.Leon is having himself a year

 

#4876
1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

Trade bait ?

479 foot home run from Pedro Leon yesterday. He's batting .313 with 9 HR and 26 RBI.Leon is having himself a year

 

It was the longest homer in either MLB or MiLb this year.

 

Leon has elite power potential but he’s 1100+ pa into AAA and hasn’t shown it consistently.  He’s probably just an exciting bench player but replicating Jose Siri’s career wouldn’t shock me.

#4878
"We came here and we were received with love from the fans, the city, the people, everything was great. Then we came out, played good baseball and we're going to try to build off that." - @Jpena221 @astros | @theajramos | #MexicoCitySeries

 

5 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

40 man move has to happen as well


singelton then

2 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Phantom IL trip for Jose Abreu time. 


🙏🙏🙏

#4879

You guys are idiots.  Abreu takes advantage of the thin air to raise his batting average to .099, and you want to throw him away--just as he's heating up.  I'm glad none of you non-baseball card reading degenerates is running the organization.

#4880
20 minutes ago, WBT said:

Meh.  Loperfido is going to put up a Chris Carter like K rate

I don't give a fuck. Sure, he's gonna strike out ~40% of the time. He's fast, not terrible on defense, and will hit for extra bases when not striking out. That's an improvement. 

#4881
18 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Trade bait ?

479 foot home run from Pedro Leon yesterday. He's batting .313 with 9 HR and 26 RBI.Leon is having himself a year

 

He can play CF, right? What are we fucking doing here?

#4884

Hmm …..

Loperfido will mostly get looks in the outfield at first when he joins the Astros, per sources. I don't know who the roster moves will be yet but I wouldn't expect Loperfido at 1B immediately.

 

#4887

Trade Jake. I will never understand the Jake love. I like him, I root for him. A lot of people whose opinion I respect promote him. But nobody has a better penchant for stepping on his own dick, especially in big moments. God Bless you guys that promote him but he has no business on a team with World Series expectations. I would love to be wrong but three years says I’m not. We need a real outfielder. It’s like QBs. If you have 2 or 3 you have none. Tucker, maybe Chas but for Gods sakes find a real starter for OF. 

#4888
2 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

Trade Jake. I will never understand the Jake love. I like him, I root for him. A lot of people whose opinion I respect promote him. But nobody has a better penchant for stepping on his own dick, especially in big moments. God Bless you guys that promote him but he has no business on a team with World Series expectations. I would love to be wrong but three years says I’m not. We need a real outfielder. It’s like QBs. If you have 2 or 3 you have none. Tucker, maybe Chas but for Gods sakes find a real starter for OF. 


we should have traded peak chas like we did myles straw

#4890
39 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Hmm …..

Loperfido will mostly get looks in the outfield at first when he joins the Astros, per sources. I don't know who the roster moves will be yet but I wouldn't expect Loperfido at 1B immediately.

 

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#4891

also if they were ready to call up loperfido, what was the point of the last 2 days of cabbage?

#4893
14 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

A reliable insider on another site is saying the Astros are working to trade Abreu to the White Sox.  

For maldy !!!!!

 

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#4894
Just now, tx 3 putt said:

For maldy !!!!!

 

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My guess is it’s either a straight salary dump or a swap of bad contracts with Benintendi coming to Houston.

#4895
4 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

My guess is it’s either a straight salary dump or a swap of bad contracts with Benintendi coming to Houston.

Yuck, Benintendi has 4 years and 66m? left on his deal. No way they would do that without some other decent player coming back to the Astros, or a bunch of money to relieve their cap hits.  Maybe they swing for the fences and try to get Robert in the trade, but I doubt they could make that happen. 

#4896
5 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Yuck, Benintendi has 4 years and 66m? left on his deal. No way they would do that without some other decent player coming back to the Astros, or a bunch of money to relieve their cap hits.  Maybe they swing for the fences and try to get Robert in the trade, but I doubt they could make that happen. 

Yeah seems like it only works if the white Sox eat a bunch of money.  But Benintendi is only 29 and hit 2 HR on Saturday; he’s probably just broken, unlike Abreu who is fully dead.  I would be fine with the trade especially if the Sox ate $15M+.  Benintendi can be used sparingly as a 4th OF or lefty bench bat and wouldn’t be as glaring as Abreu.  Other thing that could happen is Chicago sending prospects with Benintendi to offset the $ difference.

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#4898

Would the lower AAV for Benintendi help us wrt the CBT? 

It feels like the White Sox should be willing to take on bad money to get prospects right now, not the other way around.

#4899
6 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Yeah seems like it only works if the white Sox eat a bunch of money.  But Benintendi is only 29 and hit 2 HR on Saturday; he’s probably just broken, unlike Abreu who is fully dead.  I would be fine with the trade especially if the Sox ate $15M+.  Benintendi can be used sparingly as a 4th OF or lefty bench bat and wouldn’t be as glaring as Abreu.  Other thing that could happen is Chicago sending prospects with Benintendi to offset the $ difference.

Yeah, that could be attractive, but 2 years 39m with Abreu vs 4 years ~66m with Beni is rough.  If they ate 20m of Beni's deal at 5m a year to help with cap/tax relief, I could see that helping the deal. A little bit more costly over time for Houston, but you get a guy that's batting close to .200 vs a guy going even lower from ~.070. 

I doubt the rebuilding White Sox want to send any prospects with him, honestly their best asset right now is cap space. They should be like the Mets who built up their farm last year by using cap space to facilitate trades for some good prospects. Maybe they could be interested in an up-and-coming Jake Myers, a dynamo prospect in Forest Whitley and a slightly used JP France to include some better players like Luis Robert! :D He has a lot of health issues, but we don't need him to play 150 games every year...

#4900
7 hours ago, WBT said:

Would the lower AAV for Benintendi help us wrt the CBT? 

It feels like the White Sox should be willing to take on bad money to get prospects right now, not the other way around.

The White Sox are a stupidly run organization.  Including prospects to swap Benintendi for Abreu would be idiotic but it’s the kind of move the White Sox would do.  
 

But even if Chicago just threw in $5M-$10M I would consider it fair and an ok trade for Houston.  Abreu isn’t just sucking, he’s unplayable, and my guess is he’s also negatively affecting the culture; even though he’s ’working hard’, having an overpaid veteran who simply can’t play anymore has to be depressing for everyone to watch.

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