re: DAT 5/24: Astros (Miley) vs Red Sox (Sale) 7:10 CT

Hes supposed to be back tonight. We'll see.

More concerning is Altuve. He did fielding and batting drills earlier this week and they had mentioned targeting a rehab assignment this weekend. Its this weekend and theres no word on him going out to rehab.

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Luhnow is set in ways of not moving any top prospects to get guys and Nationals would demand that.

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Then he needs to start giving these guys opportunities or theyll lose them to Rule 5. Round Rock is becoming a choke point.

Franklin Perez was regarded on the same level as Whitley at the time but he’s been hurt ever since. Jake Rogers is gonna end up being the jewel from the deal for the tigers.

Perez was regarded highly, but I do not remember him being on the Whitley level. Rogers will be a steal, but he wasn't on that level either.

ETA: I'm not saying I'm not wrong, I just do not remember Whitley / Tucker / Correa / Bregman / Alvarez buzz around him.

He was 54 midseason of 2017, Fisher was 50, Martes was 31, Tucker was 19 FYI

You said we don’t trade high end prospects. I would consider a top 50 prospect a high end prospect. It’s all semantics

He was in the winter between 17 and 18 a few months after the deal. I think he was top 30 or 35 in baseball America at that time. They don’t rerank every prospect when one gets traded. You can use whatever rankings and time periods to fit your argument but trying to act like Perez wasn’t highly touted is just false. He was like 19 at the time he got dealt as well and the highest upside arm in our system.

I agree with you they haven’t traded guys who are typically regarded as top 10 overall types. The Astros are hardly unique in that regard. You can get most deals done without trading those kinds of prospects anyway these days.

They gave a very good package as mentioned for Verlander including Daz Cameron as well. Verlander was totally worth it without question. Meanwhile, people wanting to give away Yed, Ted or Whitley to rent MadBum are nuts. You can get those moves done with prospect depth.

We won the World Series in 2017. We lost the ALCS to the best team last season with basically the two best building blocks on our entire team hurt (Altuve and Correa). Yet he still almost got the Nats to give us Harper last year for a four-player package headlined by Bawkake but WAS ownership foolishly vetoed it.

How Luhnow has handled the trade market has been smart the past two years overall. He doesn't want to trade away any more Josh Hader level talents for junk but he's also still being aggressive.

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I just don't think Luhnow will and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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We'd all love Scherzer but they are now set to pay big bucks to JV, Altuve and Bregman with Springer and Correa still waiting for theirs. It's hard to take on another pitcher if he's going to make a ton of money because of the luxury tax problems coming up.

If the Nats want to eat most of Max's salary, then I can see Luhnow trading Whitley for 3 postseasons worth of a beast ace. It could happen. That said, it would be much easier to do for a controlled guy like Thor.