***** Official 2017 Astros Off Season Thread *****

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Read yesterday that Gattis is having shoulder soreness.
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Devo named the best pitcher you've never heard of by USA Today

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/02/houston-astros-chris-devenski-good-spring-training-role-starter-bullpen-mlb
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He drew a really short straw last season being relegated to the middle reliever role most of the time, despite pitching pretty damn good more often than not. I hope he makes the rotation this season and doesn't get stuck cleaning up others' messes.
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I want him in the rotation if they pitch like they did in 2015.

If this rotation turns out to be another relapse of 2016 I want Devo in the same role he had last year.

I'm convinced that if it wasn't for him we would've been 6 games under .500 instead of 6 over.
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Ag_07 said:

I want him in the rotation if they pitch like they did in 2015.

If this rotation turns out to be another relapse of 2016 I want Devo in the same role he had last year.

I'm convinced that if it wasn't for him we would've been 6 games under .500 instead of 6 over.
I agree. Devenski was huge out of the pen. The deeper stats back it up on Fangraphs too. As a matter of fact, he's the leader on a few of their leverage neutral stats.



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I'm gettin good vibes from following Keuchel and McCullers instagrams that they are feeling good about how they'll perform rolling into the season. Although, it should be noted most pitchers almost always feel that way.
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And that Dallas went all of last ST without giving up a run and was looking flawless going into the season.
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Met Devo in Boston last May. Really cool dude.
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k20dub said:


Compared to this:

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Still kinda bummed Colby didn't stick here.
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Me too, but hopefully Reddick will be the upgrade we need there.
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No doubt. Don't get me wrong I'm not mad they didn't lock him up, I'm bummed he didn't perform well enough for us to move him into an everyday role especially after the Gomez debacle.

I'm still convinced that ear tumor fcked him up pretty bad.
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Totally agree there. I wanted Colby to be good. Sucks it didn't work out.
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that beard is terrible.
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So apparently Colby caught some pretty good flak on Twitter.

Uh...Having trouble linking the tweets but here is the story.














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gigemJTH12 said:

that beard is terrible.

Amish Colby
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Baseball America ranks our farm system as #3

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2017-organization-talent-rankings-line/#e2MZG1xGhlfTLQg2.97
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Angels, Mariners, & Rangers at 29, 23, & 22.
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Interesting to see how quickly things can turn around. The Braves are #1 after being #29 two years ago. The DBacks are 28 after being #6 two years ago. And the Yankees went from 17 to 2 overnight, same for the White Sox (23 to 5).
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Most of those teams just had high draft picks. NYY and CHW just jumped from raping people via 2 trades
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Gramercy Riffs said:

Interesting to see how quickly things can turn around. The Braves are #1 after being #29 two years ago. The DBacks are 28 after being #6 two years ago. And the Yankees went from 17 to 2 overnight, same for the White Sox (23 to 5).
Yanks got how many prospects from trading Andrew Miller, Beltran and Aroldis Chapman? Something stupid.
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shano0603 said:

Gramercy Riffs said:

Interesting to see how quickly things can turn around. The Braves are #1 after being #29 two years ago. The DBacks are 28 after being #6 two years ago. And the Yankees went from 17 to 2 overnight, same for the White Sox (23 to 5).
Yanks got how many prospects from trading Andrew Miller, Beltran and Aroldis Chapman? Something stupid.
They absolutely stacked their farm system with those.

(ranked in the Yankees system per MLB)
1. OF Clint Frazier - #29 BA top 100
2. SS Gleyber Torres - #5 BA top 100
6. LHP Justus Sheffield - #91 in BA top 100
11. RHP Dillon Tate
16. OF Billy McKinney

RHP Ben Heller
RHP J.P. Feyereisen
RHP Erik Swanson
RHP Nick Green
OF Rashad Crawford
RHP Adam Warren
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Folks are crazy over paying for these pitchers IMO.
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aggie1906 said:

shano0603 said:

Gramercy Riffs said:

Interesting to see how quickly things can turn around. The Braves are #1 after being #29 two years ago. The DBacks are 28 after being #6 two years ago. And the Yankees went from 17 to 2 overnight, same for the White Sox (23 to 5).
Yanks got how many prospects from trading Andrew Miller, Beltran and Aroldis Chapman? Something stupid.
They absolutely stacked their farm system with those.

(ranked in the Yankees system per MLB)
1. OF Clint Frazier - #29 BA top 100
2. SS Gleyber Torres - #5 BA top 100
6. LHP Justus Sheffield - #91 in BA top 100
11. RHP Dillon Tate
16. OF Billy McKinney

RHP Ben Heller
RHP J.P. Feyereisen
RHP Erik Swanson
RHP Nick Green
OF Rashad Crawford
RHP Adam Warren
That's a huge return... And they got Chapman back. That's what I really thought was going to happen with Berkman back in the day when we traded him to the Yankees.
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Cubs got a ring, Tribe went to the WS. Both are the favorite to return. I'd say they'd do it again given the choice.
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aggie1906 said:

Cubs got a ring, Tribe went to the WS. Both are the favorite to return. I'd say they'd do it again given the choice.
And the Tribe still have Miller. Neither team regrets it.

Besides the gay ass Rangers.
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it's not gay if it's in the locker room and he's a noob that you're hazing

/odor
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Game day.
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At work, but damn it feels good to hear the game
in the radio.
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Even though it was an 11-4 loss, sounds like there were some bright spots.

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This is pre-season play, right?
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klsmith89 said:

This is pre-season play, right?

Ag_07
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klsmith89 said:

This is pre-season play, right?


No it's not....It's Spring Training.

What is this preseason baseball you're talking about?
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klsmith89 said:

This is pre-season play, right?

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