And with that LAD doesn't even have to win it all to guarantee we miss 2027. TBH I don't even understand how it's correctable at this point, with respect to all the deferred money. I know "everyone else can do it too", but not everyone has the massive advantages of LA and NYC wrt to media, international markets, etc.

I mean, just preventing future deferred deals would create an even bigger LAD advantage so no way that is a solution. You almost have to renege on some existing stuff to make it work. Enjoy this year I guess.

Tarik Skubal
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Shohei Ohtani
Blake Snell
Tyler Glasnow

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

— AT (@BaseballWRLD_) August 2, 2026

It's easy to blame LA, but Detroit is the one that agreed to trade Skubal to them.

Well, that may blow up my June 2027 plans of taking the family to Chicago and hitting White Sox and Cubs and two more stadiums.

CharleyKerfeld said:

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It's easy to blame LA, but Detroit is the one that agreed to trade Skubal to them.

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who knows what really happened......

after 112 games:

2024 ---> 57-55

2026 ---> 57-55

the '24 club begins an 8-game winning streak in game 113

Probably jinxing it but Peña quietly putting together a 13 game hitting streak. Walker has a 5 game streak going.

Big Bucks said:

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Well, that may blow up my June 2027 plans of taking the family to Chicago and hitting White Sox and Cubs and two more stadiums.

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I have two left (Pittsburgh and St. Louis) and was planning on knocking them out next year when the Astros go there

It's going to be very hard to trade Pena over the "offseason", so we'll probably end up getting nothing for him. Chances of extending him are what? About 5%?

While I get we are playing well, I am still unreasonably hoping we trade Pena to infuse controllable talent on to the big league team

Wabs said:

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It's going to be very hard to trade Pena over the "offseason", so we'll probably end up getting nothing for him. Chances of extending him are what? About 5%?

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I'm pretty optimistic that there will be baseball next year. Baseball has evolved to include too much money on both sides to miss an entire season. Now it may only be half a season so it's fair to question if someone will pay as much for 80 games of Peña vs 162.

Mr.Bond said:

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at this point I hope we dont buy anything other than an expiring salary dump OF bat for a throwaway prospect. We're unlikely to compete for a world series but all you have to do is get to October.... see 2019 and 2021 WS Champs

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I'm not sure what I think anymore. I could buy into going all in IF you are committed to trading off guys like Pena (maybe even HB) in the offseason to recoup what you gave up and then some.

Someone give me some rumors. Completely made up is fine.

Don't mistake incompetence for malice.

tylhair said:

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Someone give me some rumors. Completely made up is fine.

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Crane is currently trying to convince JV to come out of retirement and is going to trade Neyens, Blubaugh and another top 10 Astros prospect for him

All I do is Nguyen said:

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As a lifelong conspiracy theorist I can actually see this happening

Looks like Tin foil @KFCBarstool was right pic.twitter.com/4EEc8AQtEa

— Babe Truth (@veryhotsoup) August 2, 2026

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Doubtful. The Dodgers just lined up perfectly. Tigers wanted a major league ready arm (Ryan can come up as soon as healthy and has #2 upside) and a near major league ready bat (Hope will contribute next year). People can poo poo it all they want but it was a solid trade for the Tigers.

FWIW- I asked about this and was told by two separate people there was a deal in place with Minnesota but nobody would give me specifics.

“The Houston Astros jumped into the sweepstakes for Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal, but realistically, would be quite pleased to acquire Robbie Ray of the San Francisco Giants”, per @BNightengale

— Michael Schwab (@michaelschwab13) August 2, 2026

Robbie Ray is a name I've heard pop up for about a month now.

Add Kevin Gausman and Reid Detmers to that list as well as far as pitching goes.

Taylor Ward, Dalton Varsho, Jo Addell, Jake McCarthy, Trevor Larnach, Luis Arraez are hitters I've had mentioned to me at least once over the last couple months.

Crane wants pitching. Dana wants hitting first but wants to add an arm as well. We'll see what happens.

texasaggie2015 said:

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FWIW- I asked about this and was told by two separate people there was a deal in place with Minnesota but nobody would give me specifics.

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Is Dana just an overpaid director of scouting in the current Astros organization? Seems like Crane is acting more as the GM. Maybe Dana is the secretary or assistant that does all the legwork for Crane, but he has to be the weakest GM in baseball (in terms of autonomy and responsibility).

Fair or unfair?

texasaggie2015 said:

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FWIW- I asked about this and was told by two separate people there was a deal in place with Minnesota but nobody would give me specifics.

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Any sense that they might circle back or it's dead?

Big Al 1992 said:

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Probably jinxing it but Peña quietly putting together a 13 game hitting streak. Walker has a 5 game streak going.

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If he stays healthy the rest of 2026, Pena will fall about 50-70 plate appearances short of qualifying for the batting title, which is good for Yordan, because JP is right behind him in average!

texasaggie2015 said:

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“The Houston Astros jumped into the sweepstakes for Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal, but realistically, would be quite pleased to acquire Robbie Ray of the San Francisco Giants”, per @BNightengale

— Michael Schwab (@michaelschwab13) August 2, 2026

Robbie Ray is a name I've heard pop up for about a month now.

Add Kevin Gausman and Reid Detmers to that list as well as far as pitching goes.

Taylor Ward, Dalton Varsho, Jo Addell, Jake McCarthy, Trevor Larnach, Luis Arraez are hitters I've had mentioned to me at least once over the last couple months.

Crane wants pitching. Dana wants hitting first but wants to add an arm as well. We'll see what happens.

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I'd rather have capital weighted towards pitching, with a platoon bat or solid OF upgrade (wouldn't take much to qualify on this team).

Ketch's confirmation also implies- at least, I think it does- that Crane will deal minor league talent at the expense of future years. He's not giving up roster players this year.

Yeah. Crane calls the shots - especially the more significant moves. He even handles the negotiations.

Dana was handed a small amount of cash this offseason and told to go bargain bin hunting after Crane got his guy (Imai).

Marvin said:

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Ketch's confirmation also implies- at least, I think it does- that Crane will deal minor league talent at the expense of future years. He's not giving up roster players this year.

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I don't know about this. I think they would be willing to do it if it made sense.

I'm not sure though.