f yea!!!!!

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They gonna be tough or should we roll.

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They are 7 - 6 since the All Star break. Swept the Mariners their last series.

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What an entertaining series.

Nope and I'm willing to bet he's the one DFA'd to make room for Gomez tomorrow

Angels Deserve to Die

So what two players will be dropped from the active roster? 40-man is set.

Singleton and Qualls/sipp/Velasquez would be my guess

I'm going with Carter and VV

Just one right?

Domingo was on the 40 man wasn't he?

With Fiers do we go to a six man rotation and give Carter the middle finger?

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I believe we only had 39 going into the night (I could be wring on that). I think we can just move Deduno to the 60-day DL and not have to drop anyone.

EDIT: Sorry, we had 40. Domingo gone gives us 39. Moving Deduno to the 60-day DL should still get us to 40.

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Katee Owen (NSFW)

At the juice box tonight.

Needless to say, it was pretty awesome

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@ReedDeSalvo: ESPN's Jim Bowden "got a text from (#Astros GM Jeff) Lunhow (Thursday), he's not done." This going to be fun.

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Trade deadline is tomorrow-- is that 11:59 PM or.....?

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@ReedDeSalvo: ESPN's Jim Bowden "got a text from (#Astros GM Jeff) Lunhow (Thursday), he's not done." This going to be fun.

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All trades must be received and approved by league office by 4:00 pm EST. After that, anything requires clearing waivers to trade.

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@ReedDeSalvo: ESPN's Jim Bowden "got a text from (#Astros GM Jeff) Lunhow (Thursday), he's not done." This going to be fun.

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Trade deadline is tomorrow-- is that 11:59 PM or.....?

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Got it. I know how my afternoon at work will be spent.

Keith Law said Phillips was the only real piece we gave up to MIL and he felt like we definitely got the better end of the deal.

Bowden backed him up and said he loved what Luhnow was doing.

A note in regards to the Valbuena cups of water to the face. They do that in the dugout after every HR, high fives and then the last in line throws water in their face.

Who will we get?!?

Well Mike Leake is gone to the Giants for two minor leaguers; dude can pitch, but I heard management was not high on him. I wanted him in our rotation bad for the next several years-a good 4th or 5 th starter easy.

Astros have some decisions to make on who to send out.

You'd have to think any other deal we do would send another OF as part of the deal

However, Jayson Stark was speculating that the Gomez deal could also be partly to cover for Springer not returning on schedule which would obviously be bad news

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Keith Law said Phillips was the only real piece we gave up to MIL and he felt like we definitely got the better end of the deal.

Bowden backed him up and said he loved what Luhnow was doing.

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The only part of the trade that has redeeming value to me is that it isn't a rental. I think between injuries and a lackluster year on both fronts, we overpaid. Hopefully there is a resurgence to his former self surrounded by a few other good hitters for once.

I'm not too hurt about Santana, since I feel he was the odd man out in our OF. I was really high on Hader and especially on Phillips. I saw him and Springer together as the outfield of the future. Paired with Altuve, Correa, Bregman, I saw that as the young core coming together for the next 3-5 years minimum. Hopefully CarGo returns to his AS ways and it turns out great.

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Ross, Kimbrel and Upton for VV, Feldman, Carter and a minor leaguer

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The Astros and Padres are "working on 'something big,'" Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports tweets. It's unclear precisely what is involved, but he notes that Tyson Ross and Craig Kimbrel have both been discussed, with San Diego potentially looking for a center field acquisition.

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Marisnick or Rasmus might be gone soon.

Or..


What if they want Gomez?

They are wanting to shed $$$. Can't see them doing that and can't see us doing that.

12:44am: The sides are talking, but nothing is close, a source tells Evan Drellich of the Houston Chronicle (via Twitter).

12:38am: The Astros and Padres are "working on 'something big,'" Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports tweets. It's unclear precisely what is involved, but he notes that Tyson Ross and Craig Kimbrel have both been discussed, with San Diego potentially looking for a center field acquisition.

Ross has been discussed quite heavily as a hotly-pursued trade piece. He's controllable for two more seasons after this one, fairly young, and relatively inexpensive. And Ross has posted rather steady, rather high-quality results for some time now. Much the same could be said of Kimbrel, who is reportedly in play.

Chris Cotillo of SB Nation tweets that Houston center fielder Jake Marisnick is "believed to be in play" in talks. The Astros obviously have a theoretical glut in the outfield after adding Carlos Gomez earlier tonight. Marisnick, who came over in a deadline deal last summer, could conceivably be put to better use as a trade piece with players like Gomez, George Springer, Colby Rasmus, a

Maybe flip Fiers? Pair him with Marisnick and some prospects for Ross and Kimbrel?

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Speculation is definitely out there though, that the Astros and Padres could do something big. "Crane and Luhnow might smell blood in water"

Way late on this cause of the TexAgs issues...

Im not a huge fan of what we had to give up for Gomez but I think we got better in the short term. I think we gave up too much but he isn't a scrub by any means.

If somehow we turn marisnick into ross, lunhow will be a miracle worker.

I know that would be big for this club.. but I really like Marisnick. I think with another offseason he oculd potentially be an above average offensive CF. I'd hate to see him guy, especially with how much he meshes with the team.

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Keith Law said Phillips was the only real piece we gave up to MIL and he felt like we definitely got the better end of the deal.

Bowden backed him up and said he loved what Luhnow was doing.

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The only part of the trade that has redeeming value to me is that it isn't a rental. I think between injuries and a lackluster year on both fronts, we overpaid. Hopefully there is a resurgence to his former self surrounded by a few other good hitters for once.

I'm not too hurt about Santana, since I feel he was the odd man out in our OF. I was really high on Hader and especially on Phillips. I saw him and Springer together as the outfield of the future. Paired with Altuve, Correa, Bregman, I saw that as the young core coming together for the next 3-5 years minimum. Hopefully CarGo returns to his AS ways and it turns out great.

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We just drafted the best two OFers in the draft... Not worried about that position.