Don't think I'd really call The Bus a shlthole - it was good for what it was. Being that it's now parking for the foreseeable future, that sucks.Ag_07 said:
Hopefully someone develops it into some nice bars/restaurants similar to what Biggio's is.
The Bus was an absolute shlthole of a bar and the only reason we ever went was convenience.
That little area has some great potential.
Edit: - the tables look right in the post, but then collapse when posted.Quote:
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Correa, who will be a free agent after the 2021 season, set an Opening Day deadline for contract talks with the Astros. They never got close, with reported final offers of six years, $120 million and five years, $125 million. Correa, still just 26 years old and bubbling over with raw talent and charisma, has repeatedly put himself in the category of another young superstar shortstop, Fransisco Lindor, who just signed a 10-year, $341 million contract with the New York Mets.
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Wins Above Replacement (WAR) measures hitting, defense, and baserunning to measure a player's overall value. It tells the same story. Correa (26.9) trails only Francisco Lindor (27.9). Remarkably, Correa has put up roughly the same value as Lindor in 171 fewer games.
In fact, if you average out WAR over 162 games to simulate a full season, Correa has been the best shortstop in baseball since 2015, and it's not particularly close.
Player WAR per 162 games WAR since 2015
Carlos Correa 7.1 26.9
Trevor Story 6.0 22.7
Francisco Lindor 5.8 27.9
Andrelton Simmons 5.5 24.3
Trea Turner 5.5 18.4
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To take that one step further, when he is on the field, Correa is one of the best players in all of baseball. Full stop. Don't believe me? Take a look at the WAR leaderboard since his debut averaged out over a full 162-game season.
Player WAR per 162 games WAR since 2015 Games
Mike Trout 9.8 46.4 765
Mookie Betts 8.8 43.7 802
Carlos Correa 7.1 26.9 610
Alex Bregman 6.9 24 564
Nolan Arenado 6.6 34.1 840
Trout. Betts. Correa. (And Bregman. If you're curious, Jose Altuve is 10th at 5.9 and George Springer is 12th at 5.8, right above Lindor.)
Correa sees himself as a $350-million player because he is a $350-million player.
When he's healthy.
If your glass is half-full, the injuries (torn thumb ligament in 2017, strained back in 2018 and 2019, and a broken rib in 2019) are not ones that you would have lingering concerns about going forward.
If your glass is half-empty, it's indicative of a body that can't handle the grind of a full season and will inevitably break down. Teams can't and don't carry premium backups for their star players because they expect their star to be in the lineup day in and day out.
The Astros see Correa as a $150-million player because he has only ever been a $150-million player in Houston.
Inside Schrdinger's box sits a check with Correa's name on it. We'll have to wait until the offseason to find out what it's worth.
He is still a couple of months out from returning, right?CoachRTM said:
Think the As might try to sign Osuna on the cheap with Rosenthal out?
Would think someone will take a chance on him at some point.
MaxPower said:
I would take The Natural and Bull Durham over most of that top 5.
Pahdz said:
Yeah it's Major League for me and then a big gap to the rest
Farmer1906 said:
Not for me. It's nice and emotional. But overall boring. Good movie to fall asleep to.
I think that one dude on this thread was posting on the same thread on TexAgs in 86.Fat Bib Fortuna said:
This year is the 35th anniversary of my favorite season of Astros baseball (1986) so I am combining my two obsessions - writing and baseball history - into a day-by-day historical lookback at the '86 season, which had its opening day 35 years ago tomorrow.
I know some of you guys are old (or older) like me and have a lot of fond memories from the '86 team, so I look forward to recalling them with you. If what I'm doing seems really dumb, feel free to ignore.
As an opener, the Astros had gone 83-79 in 1985 and finished third in the NL West, but the effort had not saved the jobs of either manager Bob Lillis or GM Al Rosen. That team did have three players really emerge - rookie 1B Glenn Davis, who hit 20 HR and dove in 64 in 100 games to finish 5th for Rookie of the Year, 26-year-old RF Kevin Bass, who in his first full season hit .269 with 16 HR, 68 RBI, and 19 SB, and #3 starter Mike Scott, who had never won more than 10 games in a season, then went 18-8 with a 3.29 ERA in 1985 at age 30.
Lillis was replaced by 43-year-old Hal Lanier and Dick Wagner took over for Rosen.
During the winter meetings, Wagner made two small deals that turned out to be huge for the '86 team. The first was trading 34-year-old OF Jerry Mumphrey to the Cubs for 25-year-old OF Billy Hatcher. The second was sending the Astros' longtime staff ace Joe Niekro, 40 yeras old and coming off a 9-12 season, to the Yankees for a rookie named Jim Deshaies.
Sports Illustrated picked the Astros to finish 5th of 6 teams in the NL West, with the Dodgers atop the heap.
Coming tomorrow: Opening Day (Spoiler alert, it sucked).
Think he delayed TommyJohn on a second opinion and is attempting to pitch this year. Last I heard he held a tryout a few weeks ago.ttha_aggie_09 said:He is still a couple of months out from returning, right?CoachRTM said:
Think the As might try to sign Osuna on the cheap with Rosenthal out?
Would think someone will take a chance on him at some point.