First thing the Astros should do

Hire new radio announcers - I've heard AA teams with better talent

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Make Altuve, Correa, Springer, and Bregman Astros for life, who cares about money

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Teams like the Yankees who have more

The tv guys are pretty bad too. Whatever that offbrand network is

If I heard Smoltz say good take one more time, I was gonna stick a ice pick in my eye. It wasn’t a good take, it was a Shiite call!

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Hire new radio announcers

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I like Ford and Sparks, but Ford's lack of energy on the final call last night was disappointing. I mean, come on dude, the Astros just won their first World Series after 55 years of playing ball.

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I've heard AA teams with better talent

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Racist

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Make Altuve, Correa, Springer, and Bregman Astros for life

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You just committed like 85 million to 4 guys. Assuming the average salary ($4MM) over the remaining 21 guys on the roster, that gives Houston a $169MM payroll. But realistically, most of those players would make more than 4 mil. It'd probably closer to $190 million. Houston can't do that.

Reality is that we're not going to be able to sign all these guys long term. Springer is probably going to be a casualty of success. He's the oldest of the group, and will get his own $100 million plus contract. I think they should sign Altuve to a long term extension now. Correa and possibly Bregman down the road. Those younger guys have more cost controlled years ahead. By signing Altuve now, they could stagger the cost and not take on the full burden at the same time.

He’s in arbitration the next 3 years so they should be fine, correct?

Yeah and he hired Boras last year. He gon get paid. He already signed a team friendly deal. 4 years $12MM. That deal was for 2014-2017 and has 2 team options for 2018 at $6MM and 2019 at $6.5MM.

He agreed to the contract and the Astros would be in their rights to pick up to 2 options. But coming off the World Series and a likely MVP, it certainly feels like it'd be a good time to decline the options and show the man some appreciation. Even though it's the teams right, it would feel a little slimy to acknowledge the original contract term is over but we're gonna exercise our right to lock you in extraordinarily cheap

I take a look at Cano's contract as a base. At the time, he was considered the best 2B in the game. He was 32 and got 10 yr 240 million. Altuve is 4 years younger. We talking 250-260 million?

Mariners were so desperate to spend on a power bat they overpaid to get Cano.