Astros 2016 somewhat probable, kinda conceivable march to the World Series

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maca1028
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Last years season, and thread for that matter, was a blast so let's get this rolling. Time to bring back TOFA, TuckerF$&@er, Springer dingers, Colby Jacks and whatever other clever analogies we come up with along the way. Can't wait for April 4!
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Juan

Rangers suck
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Go Stros #StrosB4Hoes #TOFA16
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Why the 6th??

Stros have a game against the Evil Empire April 4th
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Gregerson running his mouth about the closer role. 1 day of pitchers and catchers and he brings drama to the media.
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Early Predictions:

AL ROY - A.J. Reed
AL Cy Young - D***** Keuchel
AL MVP - George Springer
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Don't forget #shootit
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JUAN! GO STROS!

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In
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Kind of early for this thread...
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Let's ge it rolling... Go stros.
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Uno
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Let's goooooo
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#crushcity lets ride!
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In on Juan
maca1028
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Why the 6th??

Stros have a game against the Evil Empire April 4th

Fix 'd it
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I didn't know the season started yet
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Juan! Glad baseball is back after the Rockets have been incredibly depressing to watch. Looking forward to a Cubs/Astros World Series!
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Juan! Glad baseball is back after the Rockets have been incredibly depressing to watch. Looking forward to a Cubs/Astros World Series!
I'm looking forward to every single player on the cubs regressing back to planet earth and having a very mediocre year where they dont come close to making the playoffs and have to ponder whether they should sell and rebuild or not.
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Finally here!
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I didn't know the season started yet
Technically no longer offseason either, so..
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iBrad
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I didn't know the season started yet
Technically no longer offseason either, so..

Do we need a Spring Training thread?
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The thread title needs some asterisks
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Really concerned about the bottom of our lineup. Having Gattis Singleton and Castro as your potential 7-9 could give us so many no contact innings.

Altuve
Gomez
Correa
Springer
Rasmus
Valbuena
Gattis
Singleton
Castro

Good potential there but that could lead to so many empty innings.
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This season will be special. Ags and Stros all the way.
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Just bought opening day tickets for the game at Yankee Stadium! Going to visit a friend that lives there and catch the game!
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We'll be there too visiting my SIL. Sec 420 Row 2

I can't wait!
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Ready to contract some gone-orrea
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Astros and Dodgers 10-1 odds to win the WS only behind Cubs at 4-1.
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I saw Dave Cameron of Fangraphs listed us as 26 out of 30 for best offseasons..

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26. Houston Astros
Grade: C-
While I think they probably overpaid to land Ken Giles, I don't really hate any of the Astros moves in isolation, and getting Doug Fister for $7 million could prove to be a very nice addition if he's healthy. But given where the Astros sit on the win-curve, this felt like a potentially missed opportunity to add talent and dramatically improve their chances of getting back to the postseason. Going into 2016 with holes at first base and designated hitter might prove to be mistakes, especially if A.J. Reed doesn't turn into a rookie of the year candidate, and the team's second-tier position player group doesn't look strong enough to carry the team if they don't get production from those spots.
This isn't so much a grade on what the Astros did, but more on what they didn't do; for a team in their position, I think it could have been worthwhile to be a bit more aggressive in upgrading for the short-term.

First of all, Dave is an idiot.

Secondly, he fails to mention the resigning of Rasmus, trading Conger, and the fact that we didn't attempt to fix our problems by loading up on backloaded deals like other teams. He also fails to mention that AJ Reed isn't our only option at first.

Dave has always had a negative slant towards Houston. Last year, he predicted us last in the division, and refused to admit that we were more than a fluke until around September.
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While I can see that reasonable people may disagree about whether our offseason was considered just average or above average (and this depends on how valuable people believe Giles is to us currently and in the future and whether one of the players in our system will fill at least one of our holes), there is no way any reasonable person can grade our offseason at 26th. We acquired a top notch closer talent and return all significant pieces from a team that was several outs away from beating the eventual World Series champs. There is no way we are 26th.
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Count me in on this boat.

I didn't think we had a very good offseason. I thought we missed on better addressing some needs, but no way we had the 26th worst.

I would probably have us in the middle of the pack as far as offseasons go.

With that said I also think we didn't have THAT many holes to fill so we weren't in need of a big offseason.
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I agree with that Ag_07.

We filled by far our biggest need and didn't give up anything that can't be replenished in mid season trades or a good draft.

And my point was that even though we didn't directly address 1st and 3rd, we also didn't abandon the model that got us to where we are.

We are no worse than middle of the pack as far as offseasons go.
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And BTW this is the point of waiting until the season starts to start the season thread.

We now have a discussion about the offseason on the 2016 season thread.
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