re: DAT 6/25: Phillies (Wheeler) @ Astros (Gordon) 7:10 PM

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You have to trade valuable MLB assetts and hit on the return, draft and develop at a high level and spend money when its time.

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We've gotten pretty lucky in the replacement category haven't we?


Let Springer go and Tucker was ready to make a step up to impact players


Let Correa walk and Peña comes in Rookie of the year and world series MVP


Let Cole go and Framber coming off a 5.86 ERA in 2019 becomes a co-ace


JVs dominance in Houston ends and Hunter Brown has stepped up to fill the role JV used to


Trade Tucker and Cam Smith, though not filing Tucks production, looks like a solid major leaguer.



Let Bregman go and Paredes has really given us similar production at a fractional cost.



We've really been lucky to hit on all of the replacements for stars we didnt retain.

Crane needs to stop being a donkey when it comes to long-term contracts. Go ahead and sign a cornerstone guy when he's young to a very long contract until he's 36 rather than ending up filling a need by signing a 34-year old where you get the arse-end of their career production.

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The first Altuve extension , Bregman, Yordan. All of these were bargains relative to what they could have gotten on the market. $105 for Pena was likely a value.

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I feel like Altuve's compensation has been fair and he has produced and is still producing enough. Bregman was overpaid the last 2 years. Yordan has had 2 knee surgeries and missed for an assortment of ailments.

Look at LMJ and Javier. It seems every deal they sign backfires.

Who would argue that the JV deal worked out to our benefit. Either one of them. Because a lot of Greinke deal was paid by them, I think you could argue he was worth what was spent, but Abreu and Walker? The list goes on

Our DH has a .920 OPS. Feels like old times.

He’s got to read these threads right?

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Has he? I’m blocked

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It was right after the Yordan fiasco Chandler I think did both an Athletic article and a podcast just slamming the Astros for how shitty they are with being transparent on injuries, injury updates etc.


It wasnt long after that the team started providing weekly injury updates like this. Its not a lot. Other teams still provide more transparency. But it certainly was a change that they weren't doing before.

Gotta admit with this pitching matchup I did not anticipate us ever having the lead

These ABs we’re seeing are drastically improved