Furlock Bones said:

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Only 2 WS out of this run is realistically a failure. I think it's finally over. Altuve is going to have an extremely hard time getting the HR record.

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Some of you are so miserable it really is mind boggling

Dynasty isn't over till we miss the playoffs.

If Crane and Tucker are off significantly on extension terms then best to shop him in offseason and see what haul you might be able to pull.

I'd rather not break up the Yordan/Tucker LHB combo but if Crane is going to let him walk might as well maximize the return

Offseason wants:

Relieve Cintron of his duties or highly encourage him to take another job elsewhere

See if we can resign Kikuchi to a short deal. I don't trust our guys coming back from setbacks(LMJ and Garcia) and don't think we'll see Urquidy or Javier next year

Find a way to cut the cord on Dubon and Meyers. This offense cannot thrive with those two and Altuve hacking at everything. We only have room for one free swinger and I'm letting the HoFer do it.

Let Bregman go as hard as it will be. But he's falling off year over year and one of these seasons he won't destroy it in August and it's gonna be an ugly season

Extend Tucker. As complete ass as he's been in the playoffs I think we need him to even make it over the course of the 162. It will also give us some wiggle room to try and find young talent to plug the other holes(CF, 3B and platoon 1B)

and part of the plan for 2025 has to be to resurrect Chas and Pena

get somebody new to work with them

Yordan Alvarez declines to say what the imaging of his knee showed. He called it “personal.”

— Will Kunkel (@WillKunkelFOX) October 2, 2024

Kikuchi needs to re-sign with Houston simply for the reason we turned him into an ace overnight

Probably only have 2-3 years of him at this rate. His knees may cut his career short probably , never a good sign when big men starting getting more than 1 knee injury

linkdude said:

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Yordan Alvarez declines to say what the imaging of his knee showed. He called it “personal.”

— Will Kunkel (@WillKunkelFOX) October 2, 2024

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When a player responds like that, it's not good. I hope he gets it fixed instead of hoping that rest will do the trick. Get it over with.

Offseason hopes

- address the outfield. We can't keep platooning guys that can't hit consistently and we will need a Tucker replacement
- develop Pena
- re-sign Kikuchi and get another couple of arms (mainly bullpen)
- offer Bregman a high AAV short term deal with opt outs if that's what he desires
- get everybody healthy

“In my mind there is not a chance this is his last game,” Jose Altuve said of Alex Bregman.

“He gave a lot to this organization so it’s time for us as an organization to pay him back and make him stay here.”

Asked if he plans to tell Jim Crane that, Altuve said “for sure.”

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) October 2, 2024

Tuve is doing his part

Frok said:

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7 Division Titles
9 Playoff appearances
7 ALCS appearances
4 pennants
2 WS Titles
1 MVP
2 Cy-Young Awards

All good things come to an end. It's very difficult to sustain a run like that without a massive payroll.

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Totally agree and it's been so much fun. But getting swept at home in one World Series and another ALCs and then a wild card series does suck.

West Roxbury said:

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Frok said:

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7 Division Titles
9 Playoff appearances
7 ALCS appearances
4 pennants
2 WS Titles
1 MVP
2 Cy-Young Awards

All good things come to an end. It's very difficult to sustain a run like that without a massive payroll.

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Totally agree and it's been so much fun. But getting swept at home in one World Series and another ALCs and then a wild card series does suck.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Maroon&Fight said:

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It's hard for me at 23 to remember a time when the Astros weren't exciting to watch and making deep postseason runs. These next couple years may be quite sobering…I'll be here complaining through it all with you guys though

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When I was 23, we "won" the Central with an 84-78 record, and were systematically destroyed by the Braves in 3 games. I paid $100 to sit in the center field upper deck for Game 3, about 6,000 feet in the air, so high we couldn't actually see Chuckie Carr's homer off John Smoltz because we were basically parallel with the wall.

We were outscored 18-5 in that serious, had to go up against 3 HOF starting pitchers, and NEVER HAD THE LEAD. Tom Glavine had more hits in the series (2) than Jeff Bagwell (1), Craig Biggio (1), or Derek Bell (0).

And a month later we left some guy named Bobby Abreu unprotected in the expansion draft. He had hit 3 HR in 2 cups of coffee for the Astros. He then hit 285 more elsewhere.


And you know what? We were ECSTATIC because it had been ELEVEN YEARS since we had made the playoffs. What a difference a generation makes

tjack16 said:

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Offseason hopes

- address the outfield. We can't keep platooning guys that can't hit consistently and we will need a Tucker replacement
- develop Pena
- re-sign Kikuchi and get another couple of arms (mainly bullpen)
- offer Bregman a high AAV short term deal with opt outs if that's what he desires
- get everybody healthy

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New hitting coach

gambochaman said:

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tjack16 said:

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Offseason hopes

- address the outfield. We can't keep platooning guys that can't hit consistently and we will need a Tucker replacement
- develop Pena
- re-sign Kikuchi and get another couple of arms (mainly bullpen)
- offer Bregman a high AAV short term deal with opt outs if that's what he desires
- get everybody healthy

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New hitting coach

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That too

The Porkchop Express said:

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Maroon&Fight said:

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It's hard for me at 23 to remember a time when the Astros weren't exciting to watch and making deep postseason runs. These next couple years may be quite sobering…I'll be here complaining through it all with you guys though

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When I was 23, we "won" the Central with an 84-78 record, and were systematically destroyed by the Braves in 3 games. I paid $100 to sit in the center field upper deck for Game 3, about 6,000 feet in the air, so high we couldn't actually see Chuckie Carr's homer off John Smoltz because we were basically parallel with the wall.

We were outscored 18-5 in that serious, had to go up against 3 HOF starting pitchers, and NEVER HAD THE LEAD. Tom Glavine had more hits in the series (2) than Jeff Bagwell (1), Craig Biggio (1), or Derek Bell (0).

And a month later we left some guy named Bobby Abreu unprotected in the expansion draft. He had hit 3 HR in 2 cups of coffee for the Astros. He then hit 285 more elsewhere.


And you know what? We were ECSTATIC because it had been ELEVEN YEARS since we had made the playoffs. What a difference a generation makes

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You must have had the same seats as me in that game

tjack16 said:

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Offseason hopes

- address the outfield. We can't keep platooning guys that can't hit consistently and we will need a Tucker replacement
- develop Pena
- re-sign Kikuchi and get another couple of arms (mainly bullpen)
- offer Bregman a high AAV short term deal with opt outs if that's what he desires
- get everybody healthy

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I'll play with a slight variation. Things I do NOT want to hear in 2025:

1. "Back of the baseball card"
2. "Ferguson is warming up in the pen"
3. "Alex Cintron, Astros hitting coach"
4. "One hot streak and this team is right back in it"
5. "McCullers is scheduled for a soft toss session back in Houston"
6. "We'll talk to Tucker and his agent after the season is over"