re: DAT 8/2: Rays (Pruitt) @ Astros (Keuchel), 7:10 CDT

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This ones on luhnow. And a lot of august losses I'm afraid. We'll struggle to go .500 this month with this lineup. 2 games on the past week we've been shutout. Bad times with literally nothing to get the teams hopes up.

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Was he supposed to improve Correa and Springers injuries as well?

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Spend the money and claim verlander off waivers. Dont leave this thing to chance. We also get to keep with Luhnow's goal of hoarding prospects

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I think what pisses me off the most, is in his interviews he acts like he really really tried to get a deal done but he just "couldn't get it across the finish line". All he had to do was bend over just as much as any other team...mother fricker acts like we're stupid and can't tell we know exactly what he's doing.


What do we have to look forward to now? Just pray to God almighty that he puts something in the water to get everyone healthy and back to normal?

I can believe health will return for Springer and Correa....but pitching...pitching is a completely different animal.

Who knows, we may never see the Keuchel we saw at the beginning of the year again this season. And McCullers? Might be the same thing and we know even when he comes back he'll be a ticking time bomb of injury.

I would understand luhnow not making deals if Keuchel and McCullers had not been injured as often as they have, but they've been injured for the better part of 2 years and we were more than capable of making a deal to mitigate that risk of injury that has been looming over us for these last two seasons.

Y'all's Fox broadcast chick is a dime. That's all I got from tonight game.

Left in the 7th after the DP

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Was he supposed to improve Correa and Springers injuries as well?

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He knew the status of our injuries st the deadline and it didn't seem to factor in his approach, based on everything that's been said or written. What players say to media is usually the tip of the iceberg about how they really feel. so the keuchel comments are troubling. This team is deflated and he didn't do shite to pick them up. It's gonna take springer coming back to get the mojo moving in the right direction.

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I would understand luhnow not making deals if Keuchel and McCullers had not been injured as often as they have, but they've been injured for the better part of 2 years and we were more than capable of making a deal to mitigate that risk of injury that has been looming over us for these last two seasons.

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:he has a point:

We need a starter, or DK and LMJ can pitch in the postseason.

From Rosenthal

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The Astros entered Monday thinking they were going to trade for three relievers:
Francisco Liriano, Zach Britton and a third, unidentified high-end type whose addition would have surprised the industry, according to major-league sources.
The Astros landed only Liriano, who has yet to pitch in relief this season, but had a 5.88 ERA in 18 starts for the Blue Jays.
“We had a couple of other deals on the plate,” Astros owner Jim Crane told ESPN 97.5 Radio in Houston. “They were agreed on in principle. Then medicals were exchanged and they got vetoed at the top.”
Crane declined to specify which players the Astros were trying to acquire, but sources provided further details.

The mystery reliever stayed put when his team’s owner decided against trading him, while the Britton talks broke down - as negotiations with the Orioles sometimes do - when the O’s raised concerns about the medical condition of at least one player coming back to them.

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The Astros’ failures at the deadline were not for lack of effort. But they made six to seven prospects off-limits in discussions for Britton and Padres left-hander Brad Hand, sources said. They perhaps were too confident of completing a trade with the Orioles, a team that executives frequently describe as difficult to deal with. And they were unable to implement contingencies - unlike the Dodgers, who also pursued Britton.
The Dodgers, at one point Monday, also felt they were progressing toward a deal for Britton, sources said. But about one hour before the deadline, the Orioles pulled back and informed the Dodgers that they would not trade their reliever, a two-time All-Star.

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The Astros made a late run at Darvish and in their estimation offered a stronger package than the Dodgers, sources said. The Rangers held a decidedly different opinion, viewing the Astros’ offers for Darvish, both early and late, as non-competitive – and the Rangers almost certainly preferred to trade their ace to any club but their in-state and AL West rival, anyway.

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The Orioles went dark on both the Astros and Dodgers for several hours, sources said; the breakdown with the Astros occurred while the teams were in the medical review stage.

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The Orioles believed that one of the Astros’ prospects had a legitimate medical problem and thought another might be questionable.
The Astros considered their players healthy, and concluded that Angelos and/or Duquette simply got cold feet – a belief that was reinforced to them when the Orioles passed on proposed substitutes for the players at the center of the disagreement

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I wonder who the 3rd mystery guy was?

Raisel Iglesias Osuna or Brach was coming with Britton. Don't matta now though

Keuchel called out the front office in an interview for not making any big moves at the deadline