Astros offseason thread

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Combined HR 87.5
Combined K 327.5
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CFTXAG10 said:

I actually like Judge when he isn't playing the Stros. Seems like a decent guy. The media coverage that surrounds him is what tends to be unbearable.
This. As much as I want to hate him because he's a Yankee, he seems like a nice guy. The problem is all the jackass Yankee fans. With Jeter gone, they needed to anoint another "best ever" player to ball wash constantly. Hell, in Cooperstown if you didn't know better, you would have thought he was one of the inductees that weekend with all the Judge crap in every freaking store.
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From my push notification...

Vintage Dallas Keuchel tosses 5 scoreless in win over Nationals, including soft contact and command of the FB.
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Gurriel already cleared for light baseball activities
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Doesn't sound like anything abnormal as far as being ahead of schedule. Hinch said he's still on track for mid-late April like before.
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Altuve... 5 years 150 million
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Hell yeah. Happy we're keeping Altuve and happy we're willing to shell it out if necessary
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Money money money....MONEY!

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Doesn't start until 2020

That's a great deal for both sides
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Wooooooooooooooo
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Mathguy64
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First of what should be several dominoes. Keep this core together.
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Just going off memory here can somebody check me:

Keuchel and marwin contracts are up first.
Then altuve was next
Then springer the next year
Then Correa the following year
Bregman after that

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agdaddy04 said:

Altuve... 5 years 150 million


He's gonna need to sell a lot of hot dogs for Crane to break even

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So damn happy about this contract for Altuve, this should shut the naysayers up that the Astros won't spend money.

You know Keuchel is none to pleased about this development.
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This is freakin awesome news. Best part is we can now re-up on other guy(s) and front load their contracts...
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Nuke LaLoosh said:

This is freakin awesome news. Best part is we can now re-up on other guy(s) and front load their contracts...


Exactly!
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I really expected Boras to steer Altuve towards testing the open market, but I guess $30M per year is a good reason to go ahead and sign an extension.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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MLB MVP, huge part of winning a WS, pay the man his money.

He better not deposit it into any Venezuelan banks though.
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We need to wrap up as many guys as possible before Harper breaks the free agent bank
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Also a good sign that the core of the team is willing to sign extensions. These guys love playing for this organization.
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I like that it's only 5 years. Gives the team the flexibility to re-up or walk away if he doesn't age well and gives Altuve reason to play for another contract.

Like I said this is a win-win for both sides and that doesn't happen often.
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nhayden said:

You know Keuchel is none to pleased about this development.


Why? You think the Astros aren't going to pay up for him? (Not trolling, I just don't know who is owed what, when)
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I wonder if this year's ice cold free agent market had something to do with this signing coming a lot sooner than most expected.

Glad to see him staying for the long haul.
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Kashchei said:

nhayden said:

You know Keuchel is none to pleased about this development.


Why? You think the Astros aren't going to pay up for him? (Not trolling, I just don't know who is owed what, when)
The general thinking is that we aren't going to pay him what he's looking for.
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Kashchei said:

nhayden said:

You know Keuchel is none to pleased about this development.


Why? You think the Astros aren't going to pay up for him? (Not trolling, I just don't know who is owed what, when)


I think they are going to wait and see with Dallas. With his injury history I think they want to see him stay healthy for a whole year and dominate for a year before they offer him a large contract. And I'm fine with that. That means ideally we get a full year of him at an all star level, and if we don't, we'll then we don't offer him a monster contract

And fwiw I don't think he's worth a top 10% in the league type of contract.
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Awesome. Great move.
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Pitchers play every 5th day

They don't deserve to be compensated at the same level of an elite position player
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Also

McCullers is 4 scoreless innings vs the Yanks so far, hitless
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astros4545 said:

Also

McCullers is 4 scoreless innings vs the Yanks so far, hitless
Daddy Lance
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Isn't there data that pitchers 30+ tend to decline, on average, it is not worth signing them to a lucrative longterm deal? I mean I am good with no more than 5 years and not any more than $25 million per, nothing more.
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I don't think I could consider anything over 20M per year
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bullard21k said:

Just going off memory here can somebody check me:

Keuchel and marwin contracts are up first.
Then altuve was next
Then springer the next year
Then Correa the following year
Bregman after that



Anyone know if this order is correct?
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This may be a little dated. I made it to see what the Astros would look like if the signed Stanton.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_AzIlb1FPf8Biwq7qSob8SJcxLVsZblRz9KNuBl-oCo
 
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