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4 hours ago, RGBIII said:

Counterpoint to Verdugo…have you ever seen his face? It is immensely punchable and I don’t think I can watch that for 162+

100 percent this.

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Question all yall are missing with all these trades and potential trades is, can they act in Heb commercial.

30 minutes ago, Jshep34 said:

Question all yall are missing with all these trades and potential trades is, can they act in Heb commercial.

HEB had first denial on all trades. I trust they know.

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

arenado needs to go under produce somewhere else 

Someone at HEB is writing the copy now….

5 hours ago, RGBIII said:

Counterpoint to Verdugo…have you ever seen his face? It is immensely punchable and I don’t think I can watch that for 162+

The #1 argument for avatars on this site.

16 hours ago, Jshep34 said:

Question all yall are missing with all these trades and potential trades is, can they act in Heb commercial.

There's a reason Jose Abreu  could never get it going here. 

Before Kyle Tucker was traded from the Astros to the Cubs, the Yankees were known to be one of the teams also vying to land the star outfielder.  Reigning AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil was reportedly of interest to the Astros in these trade talks, but New York ultimately turned down Houston’s demand for Gil and infield prospect George Lombard Jr. in exchange for Tucker, according to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale.

It makes for an interesting contrast to the trade package that the Astros did accept from Chicago.  Lombard and prospect Cam Smith could be viewed as essentially a match as recent first-round draft picks, though Smith is higher regarded in the view of MLB Pipeline (Smith is 73rd on their top-100 prospect list and Lombard isn’t on the list).  Gil is a controllable pitcher who has already made a name for himself at the big league level, so Isaac Paredes and Hayden Wesneski represent something of a split of those two resume points.  Wesneski is controlled through 2029 and has a solid 3.93 ERA over his 190 Major League innings, but he isn’t considered to have quite Gil’s ceiling, so making up that difference could’ve been achieved by adding a proven hitter like Paredes.

15 hours ago, TejasPedro said:

Tucker always came off as a Trader Joe’s guy anyway. 

He's native Floridan so Publix.

8 hours ago, Scraps said:

Before Kyle Tucker was traded from the Astros to the Cubs, the Yankees were known to be one of the teams also vying to land the star outfielder.  Reigning AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil was reportedly of interest to the Astros in these trade talks, but New York ultimately turned down Houston’s demand for Gil and infield prospect George Lombard Jr. in exchange for Tucker, according to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale.

It makes for an interesting contrast to the trade package that the Astros did accept from Chicago.  Lombard and prospect Cam Smith could be viewed as essentially a match as recent first-round draft picks, though Smith is higher regarded in the view of MLB Pipeline (Smith is 73rd on their top-100 prospect list and Lombard isn’t on the list).  Gil is a controllable pitcher who has already made a name for himself at the big league level, so Isaac Paredes and Hayden Wesneski represent something of a split of those two resume points.  Wesneski is controlled through 2029 and has a solid 3.93 ERA over his 190 Major League innings, but he isn’t considered to have quite Gil’s ceiling, so making up that difference could’ve been achieved by adding a proven hitter like Paredes.
 

 

Wesneski has a lot to work with, the potential is there 

sucks to lose tucker but we’re not deep enough to keep him and let him go for one draft pick 

Of all the players, I’d like to see Yordan & Altuve retire as Astros.

1 hour ago, Shot Caller said:

Of all the players, I’d like to see Yordan & Altuve retire as Astros.

Yordan is not the type of player who spends his entire career with one team.  DHs tend to bounce around a lot towards the end of their careers.

Unfortunately he's probably not going to have a long career because of his knees.

1 hour ago, Guadaloopy said:

Yordan is not the type of player who spends his entire career with one team.  DHs tend to bounce around a lot towards the end of their careers.

 

25 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Unfortunately he's probably not going to have a long career because of his knees.

These two factors will limit his market enough that we might keep him

Am I wrong to think that the longer this goes the more likely it is that Bregman signs in Houston?

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

Am I wrong to think that the longer this goes the more likely it is that Bregman signs in Houston?

yes. don't read anything into the timing. 

all the people involved from the players, agents, and team front office personnel are dealing with holiday bullshit and are effectively on break until the new year. 

yes. don't read anything into the timing. 
all the people involved from the players, agents, and team front office personnel are dealing with holiday bullshit and are effectively on break until the new year. 
Lol this ain't high school where everyone gets 3 weeks off. This is a multimillion dollar business.

Shit is still happening just like shit happened last year from Dec14-Jan1.

I don't think Bregman wants to leave, but I don't think there is anything he can do to stop it unless he just wants to give up probably 30M

Most likely Boras is just patiently wringing every possible cent out of the Red Sox.

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2 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Am I wrong to think that the longer this goes the more likely it is that Bregman signs in Houston?

Like how Correa's market collapsed and we still made no offer to sign him?  Yeah, probably.

4 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Am I wrong to think that the longer this goes the more likely it is that Bregman signs in Houston?

 

boras over playing his hand 

 

arenando is giving me abreu 2.0 vibes. Id rather give a young guy a shot and go from there 

If we trade for Nolan Arenado, we aren't serious about contending this year.

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Cause playing Shay Whitcomb means we are?

51 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

If we trade for Nolan Arenado, we aren't serious about contending this year.

To be fair giving 405 PA to Jon Singleton last year wasn't very serious either

 
arenando is giving me abreu 2.0 vibes. Id rather give a young guy a shot and go from there 

If we are gonna open the pocketbook for a corner IF, I’d much rather pair Walker or Alonso with Paredes than Arenado.
8 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Am I wrong to think that the longer this goes the more likely it is that Bregman signs in Houston?

Last year a few of Boras' clients waited a long time for big money, it never came, teams moved on, and those guys had to take relatively short term deals instead to "prove it" again. Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery were the two big ones that didn't get what they wanted. Snell got big money from the Dodgers this year after having a good second half of the season, while Jordan may never see a contract anywhere near what he was offered last off-season. Bellinger also did a short deal with opt outs, while he was projected to get a 150-200m+ deal and got 3/80 instead.

It's a gamble for Bregman to wait, but maybe he signs a 1 year deal with players options to run it back one more time. I hope he stays, Paredes moves to 1st and they go find a couple OFs to fill out the rest of the roster. 

18 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


If we are gonna open the pocketbook for a corner IF, I’d much rather pair Walker or Alonso with Paredes than Arenado.

Jim Carrey Yes GIF

1 hour ago, WBT said:

To be fair giving 405 PA to Jon Singleton last year wasn't very serious either

Better than 120 to Jose Abreu

 

 

dammit. Now I’m all fired up when I’m trying to go to sleep 

Would like to have 2 of 3 of Alonso Walker Santander, but all three have QOs.

19 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

This seems good

 

He needs to pick up 17 votes and has picked up 4 so far. Only 7% of ballots are known. 

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If you want to hear Tucker ay "ummm" 1000 times in 25 mins then here you go


Bregman got his greedy hands on a big money deal.

Can Dana Brown and Crane not figure out contracts in the modern era of baseball. Ok F Bregman who cares, but what about all the talent that was there the last three years. We got bamboozled into that Abreu deal. Fans suffer for ignorant management moves.  Rant over

So the Yankees are trying to monopolize “hitters that can’t hit a breaking ball” category.

That was a good trade for the Yankees.  Use their ridiculous local revenue as a super power.  

Yankees didn't need much offset from the Cubs to make the deal. IIRC Astros wanted the Cubs to pay more of the salary.

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8 hours ago, The Dog said:

He needs to pick up 17 votes and has picked up 4 so far. Only 7% of ballots are known. 

Number of total votes that will be sent in is unknown so that 17 isn’t a hard and fast number. 

8 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Number of total votes that will be sent in is unknown so that 17 isn’t a hard and fast number. 

Yeah I think this is the number if all votes are sent in. 

He’s just a paid athlete. Nothing more. I don’t get all the sentimentality. He got paid to do a job. He did it well like he was paid to do. Like any paid employee. Now he’s on to the next job. See ya kid. We’ll be fine. Name on the front is still the same. I guess I’ve just never been a “fan” of anyone except maybe Roger Staubach. They all come and go. 

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