***** 2024 Houston Astros Season Thread ***** [Staff Warning]

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Farmer1906 said:

Now that we have Japanese money coming in, can we go get Munetaka Murakami?
I'd settle for bringing back Kooch
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WES2006AG said:

tjack16 said:

Dang…. It'll always be Minute Maid to me
You mean Enron Field right?


I mean it was Enron for like 3 months. Minute Maid for 22 years
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Farmer1906 said:

Now that we have Japanese money coming in, can we go get Munetaka Murakami?
Yes, please. Sasaki, too!
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tjack16 said:

WES2006AG said:

tjack16 said:

Dang…. It'll always be Minute Maid to me
You mean Enron Field right?


I mean it was Enron for like 3 months. Minute Maid for 22 years


3 months… 3 years. What's the difference.
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MaxPower said:

Farmer1906 said:

Now that we have Japanese money coming in, can we go get Munetaka Murakami?
I'd settle for bringing back Kooch
There's a lot of people putting a lot of faith in Kooch. I know he had a good showing here for a couple of months, but at some point there's a good chance he regresses to the mean and reverts to what he was pre-Astros.

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Booma94 said:

MaxPower said:

Farmer1906 said:

Now that we have Japanese money coming in, can we go get Munetaka Murakami?
I'd settle for bringing back Kooch
There's a lot of people putting a lot of faith in Kooch. I know he had a good showing here for a couple of months, but at some point there's a good chance he regresses to the mean and reverts to what he was pre-Astros.


I would agree if he was the same pitcher in TOR as in HOU. But he adjusted his game. I don't think he'll have a 2.70 ERA as he did while here, but I think there will be marked improvement from 4+ ERA in TOR for his career.
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Farmer1906 said:

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I'm thinking more in terms of 2026 and beyond rather than next season. I'd rather get talent for the assets we have (especially Tucker and Framber) before we lose them and get nothing like we did with Correa and Springer (and now probably Bregman).
We did not get nothing for them. We got their play on the field for as long as we could and well as comp picks. Do you think we make the CS in 2020 without Springer? The WS in 2021 without Correa? The postseason at all in 2024 without Bregman?

Springer - Chase McDermott (who we flipped for Mancini... oops)
Correa - Andrew Taylor (36th org rank, 2 so so years in A and A+)
Bregman - TBD
That's true but this team doesn't appear to be on the same trajectory as the ones you previously mentioned. The 2020 team was coming off a season with our most wins as an org and every other year off at least an ALCS appearance. This team has seen the win total decrease each of the last two seasons and is losing another all star in Bregman.

I wasn't suggesting trading all 3 of those guys to the Orioles. Maybe you trade 2 or 1 but I'm just not in the boat that you need nothing but veterans to win. We've had young guys step up and carry the load before so there's no reason to think you can't trade those guys and still be competitive (especially 88 wins competitive).
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AggiEE said:

I'm surprised they aren't going to change the name to Occidental field given all those dang logo patches all over the players

Why does an oil company need to market like that?
Especially one that doesn't have a gas station brand too.

The only explanation I heard that makes sense is since Berkshire Hathaway is Oxy's largest shareholder, they like having the brand featured for stock purchase awareness reasons.
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Farmer1906 said:

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Framber for Holliday? Framber is a top tier starter for the last 3 years. Orioles need a front line guy badly.
Proven commodities come with a high price tag
I don't see the O's doing that for one year of Framber. They gave up less for Burnes, who is generally viewed as the better player. If you wanted to get funky they are a perfect fit for Yordan where you could get Holliday, Hjerstad and one of Mayo or Basallo. That wouldn't be popular but the reality is Altuve is a DH being stuffed at 2B and it's only going to get worse.
Probably in the minority here, but I'd personally be in favor of getting a huge haul of young talent from the O's, even if it's for Framber, Yordan, and/or Tucker. We need good, young talent that could eventually be cornerstone pieces for the future. Remember when we had a young Breggy, Correa, Springer, etc.
The problem is that the Os took the young talent route, and so far, it has earned them two playoff appearances with zero games in the division series. Taking on the pieces they're willing to part with for 3 of the best players in baseball seems like a poor strategy.
Correct. Except they haven't developed pitching to match. Let them negotiate w Framber and get a deal done and then trade for some of their studs, who were identified and developed using the Luhnow system. I'd keep Yordan, H Brown, Diaz , Altuve and Arrighetti. Maybe they'd take a chance on Garcia or Urquidy as part of a package.
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I believe so. It was about 6 months ago and it didn't take long to figure out it made no sense for our company.

They draw way more national and international eyeballs than I expected, which provides value to those brands but makes it not worthwhile to local brands to pay for.
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I'd argue daikin is unique in that they do have local manufacturing, though. So I'm sure they'd still get some benefits a local company would see…come to our suite at daikin park after touring our facilities
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I feel like I've seen this rumor floating around social media for a few months… but doesn't Minute Maid have the rights though like 2030? Maybe it's legit… but it feels clickbaity…
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Danced around soto and judge killed em GDIT
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And now stanton

Way to go cleveland, never change
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Cleveland with a pulse
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That swing by Noel was wicked.
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**** the yankees
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Awesome game
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THAT WAS AMAZING
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Clutch hit after clutch hit after clutch hit this postseason. We had no shot this year
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Those were both Big Jon worthy bat flips.
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Boiling Denim said:

Clutch hit after clutch hit after clutch hit this postseason. We had no shot this year


Yeah. Even if we beat Detroit… we likely weren't making it past Cleveland
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EastCoastAgNc said:

So what's the new nickname? The ice box? The duct barn?
Freon Field at Duct Barn Stadium
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Mets are toast
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Daikin Park
Daikin Field
Daikin Stadium

Or we could go Canadian with Daikin Centre.

Gonna be hard not to call it "The Dike."

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Fill the train with Daikon radishes
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"Help me, Chief Wahoo. You're my only hope."
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gambochaman said:

Mets are toast
It appears Amazins used up all their nine lives to get to the NLCS.
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linkdude said:

Fill the train with Daikon radishes
Oranges coming out, capacitors going in
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If we win we face off against the Braves again. Let the revenge tour begin!
No matter what!
Epstein didn't do, you know, the thing...
I'm the rare Astros/Cowboys/Spurs fan. We do exist
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astros teased a big announcement on twitter yesterday

apparently the big astros announcement, as we watch other teams in the alcs and fan favorite contracts are expiring, was a special hat to commemorate a different houston rapper from the houston rapper they just commemorated with a special hat.

Its my fault for paying attention.
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What do you want them to announce? We bought out Cleveland and will be taking their spot down 1-2 vs NY?
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Farmer1906 said:

What do you want them to announce? We bought out Cleveland and will be taking their spot down 1-2 vs NY?
wouldn't have expected an announcement at all if they hadn't teased one.
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Farmer1906 said:

What do you want them to announce? We bought out Cleveland and will be taking their spot down 1-2 vs NY?


You don't have to tease an announcement for a merch drop. You can just drop the merchandise and post an announcement. Dont hype it up for days

Also I'm curious why it's always a team store exclusive. Online shopping is the way to go now
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