*****Official Houston Astros 2020-2021 Offseason Thread*****

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Another Yankee killer? Yes, please. They constructed a line up of great hitters, but it so damned flawed that it's almost all righty.
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Exactly right. Hicks is the only lefty/switch hitter in their current projected starting 9.
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Cishek's sidearm delivery is tough on righties, and he had a changeup that's devastating to lefties. This is a sneaky signing.
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https://www.mlb.com/news/ryan-braun-not-currently-interested-in-playing

That settles the discussion from yesterday
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Soon.

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Overall I'm pretty pleased with how this offseason has gone. Obviously losing George sucks but that was expected. Our offense is solidified with Yordan/Uncle Mike back, a veteran lefty platoon-mate for Maldy behind the dish, and a nice spring training competition brewing for the starting CF gig (Siri, Souza, Straw). Maybe we'll still add a veteran OF.

I like the pitching additions too. We kept Raley to pair with Taylor as some nice lefty options. We added an opener type (Stanek) and Baez who can hopefully take on some late inning responsibility. I'm looking forward to seeing how Ceshak performs and am curious to see who else we bring in along those lines. We're developing a nice mix of young, high ceiling guys with some vets.

I think our mediocre 2020 regular season and the loss of George have many Astros haters hoping we'll just go away, but those people are going to be very disappointed this year. We won't be a 107 win super team like we were in 2019, but we should be very good with a multi-year playoff runway ahead of us.
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Athletic & Baseball America came out with minor rankings.

We're sitting at 25th & 26th. Expected after gutting it with trades and losing some draft picks. Click needs to rebuild it so we're seeing a new flood of talent in 2025/6 when everyone hits FA.
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Have we heard any details about plans for minor league season this year?
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Farmer1906 said:

Athletic & Baseball America came out with minor rankings.

We're sitting at 25th & 26th. Expected after gutting it with trades and losing some draft picks. Click needs to rebuild it so we're seeing a new flood of talent in 2025/6 when everyone hits FA.

It's also probably a reflection of all the pitching talent moving up to Houston last year. May not have moved it a great deal, but I suspect it had some impact.
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Good point. As good as they all were, not were high end prospects. Still it probably equaled a few spots.

Much like high school football rankings, there is a lot of guess work.
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This is the spring training roster I found online, are we missing anyone there?(I am sure im missing numerous non-roster invitees)
Pitchers:
66 Bryan Abreu RP
64 Brandon Bielak SP
77 Luis Garcia RP
21 Zack Greinke SP
7 Tyler Ivey SP
39 Josh James RP
53 Cristian Javier SP
43 Lance McCullers SP
60 Enoli Paredes RP
55 Ryan Pressly RP
51 Austin Pruitt RP
58 Brooks Raley RP
68 Nivaldo Rodriguez RP
70 Andre Scrubb RP
38 Joe Smith RP
Jairo Solis SP
Peter Solomon SP
Ryne Stanek RP
62 Blake Taylor RP
65 Jose Urquidy SP
59 Framber Valdez SP
Forrest Whitley SP
Riley Ferrell
Ralph Garza Jr.
Ryan Hartman
Brendan McCurry
Steve Cishek

Catchers
Jason Castro
15 Martin Maldonado
11 Garrett Stubbs
Lorenzo Quintana
Jamie Ritchie
Chuckie Robinson

Infielders
27 Jose Altuve 2B
2 Alex Bregman 3B
1 Carlos Correa SS
16 Aledmys Diaz 2B
10 Yuli Gurriel 1B
Freudis Nova 2B
31 Abraham Toro-Hernandez 3B
28 Taylor Jones DH/1B
Alex DeGoti
Osvaldo Duarte
Jeremy Pea
Nick Tanielu

Outfielders
20 Chas McCormick CF
3 Myles Straw CF
30 Kyle Tucker RF
23 Michael Brantley LF
Ronnie Dawson
Stephen Wrenn
Drew Ferguson

Designated Hitters
44 Yordan Alvarez DH


So way to early bets...who is our Opening day: Rotation, Pen, Starting Lineup and Bench...maybe highlight your dark horse surprise our of ST
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James will be out for some months... until the summer, right? Pruitt likely will be on the shelf for several months more, also.

Any updates on Whitley's arm?
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Ferrell has been in the system for awhile now. Time for him to do something, I'd think.
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That OF depth. Yikes.
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Last comment- I don't see how we roll with that outfield. Uncle Mike can't play out there every day, Alvarez doesn't need to risk being out there, and Straw hasn't proven that he belongs out there. Diaz might be a spot starter, but he's not really an outfielder and can't stay healthy anyway.
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:



So way to early bets...who is our Opening day: Rotation, Pen, Starting Lineup and Bench...maybe highlight your dark horse surprise our of ST


My roster predictions

Lineup
Altuve - 2B
Tucker - RF
Brantley - LF
Bregman - 3B
Alvarez - DH
Correa - SS
Gurriel - 1B
Maldonado - C
Straw - CF

Bench
Diaz
Jones
Toro/Stubbs (depending on if they want to carry 3 catchers)
Castro

I think McCormick might get called up at some point as well.

Starting Rotation:
1. Valdez
2. Greinke
3. LMJ
4. Urquidy
5. Javier
hopefully Verlander can come back when he hopes to in August/September

Bullpen:
Pressly
Taylor
Peredes
Raley
Smith
Stanek
Baez

Last spot might go to either one of these 5
Bielak/Scrubb/Abreu/Garcia/James

Edit: add Baez to BP
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:

So way to early bets...who is our Opening day: Rotation, Pen, Starting Lineup and Bench...maybe highlight your dark horse surprise our of ST



I'm not sold on Tucker being quite as high in the order.
I like:

1. Altuve 2B
2. Brantley LF
3. Bregman 3B
4. Alvarez DH
5. Correa SS
6. Tucker LF
7. Gurriel 1B
8. Maldonado/Castro C
9. Straw CF

I agree, our outfield depth is not something to be excited about.... I'm guessing we use Tucker as our backup CF when Straw sits to regroup his efforts?
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Here is my stab at it.

Infield
Maldonado
Castro
Altuve
Bregman
Correa
Diaz
Toro

Outfield
Brantley
Straw
Tucker
Souza

DH
Yordan Alvarez

Rotation
Greinke
McCullers
Valdez
Urquidy
Javier

Bullpen (probably have 1 too many here)
Pressly
Paredes
Baez
Smith
Raley
Taylor
Stanek
Cishek

Missed the Cut
Garcia
Scrubb
Abreau
Whitley
James
Sneed
Pruitt
Stubbs
McCormick

Lineup
1. Altuve
2. Tucker
3. Bregman
4. Alvarez
5. Correa
6. Brantley
7. Gurriel
8. Maldonado/Castro
9. Straw
Farmer1906
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You missed our biggest offseason addition - Baez.

Also we need a legit 4th OFer.
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Enter Souza... I guess.

Just go get JBJ or Marisnick. Move Straw to 4th OFer/pinch running.

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Sneed went to Japan
tjack16
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Farmer1906 said:

You missed our biggest offseason addition - Baez.

Also we need a legit 4th OFer.


Oh yeah! My bad ... the bullpen moves were some I kind of forgot about
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Good. It's hard to set fire to the game from across the Pacific.
Farmer1906
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Good for him.
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Sneed went to Japan so that he could live closer to home I think
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tjack16 said:

Lonestar_Ag09 said:



So way to early bets...who is our Opening day: Rotation, Pen, Starting Lineup and Bench...maybe highlight your dark horse surprise our of ST


My roster predictions

Lineup
Altuve - 2B
Tucker - RF
Brantley - LF
Bregman - 3B
Alvarez - DH
Correa - SS
Gurriel - 1B
Maldonado - C
Straw - CF

Bench
Diaz
Jones
Toro/Stubbs (depending on if they want to carry 3 catchers)
Castro

I think McCormick might get called up at some point as well.

Starting Rotation:
1. Valdez
2. Greinke
3. LMJ
4. Urquidy
5. Javier
hopefully Verlander can come back when he hopes to in August/September

Bullpen:
Pressly
Taylor
Peredes
Raley
Smith
Stanek
Baez

Last spot might go to either one of these 5
Bielak/Scrubb/Abreu/Garcia/James

Edit: add Baez to BP
season starts with 28 and drops to 26 for the rest of the year
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Quote:

Any updates on Whitley's arm?
article I read listed him as a non-roster invite so I would assume he has been cleared to be pitching
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Gig’em Aggies!
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Seems like we've been waiting forever for Whitley. They must see something there else they'd have cut him loose long ago. Hope he breaks out this year.
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cap-n-jack said:

Seems like we've been waiting forever for Whitley.


We have

It's very close to put up or ship out time for Whitley
Farmer1906
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He has maybe 70 innings across AA & AAA. Obviously none last year with no minors. With all the guys we went to ahead of him, shows he was no where close last year. Maybe things will be different if he has a strong spring and start to the minor league season. He is still just 23. He is still highly regarded. With the amount of solid young guys I think we can afford to wait and see a little longer.
tjack16
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Ah forgot about that. All of these new rules are so confusing and hard to keep up with
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Close. It starts at 26 and moves to 28 in Sept.
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Farmer1906 said:

Close. It starts at 26 and moves to 28 in Sept.

Yep.... facts are hard for some people though!
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