moonslav59

Does anyone steal bases, anymore?

fair enough. I’m sticking with 100:1.

Certainly saying less than 1 in 100 chance of the trade being just okay is making a call.

I'm not as hopeful about the prospects, as I was before, but the trade is not over, until we know for sure. I'd say the odds are less than 1 in 100, it turns out okay.

I'm not comparing 2021 to 2018, but both teams came back the n ext year, largely intact, but s*** the bed.

None, unless a prospect does well, yes.

You act like every move was bad. Whitlock Schrieber Refsnyder Kike '21 Strahm Wacha- already worth $7M Pivetta (I'm probably missing some) The jury is still out on the Beni, Ottavino and even the JBJ & 1 year of Betts deals as the prospects might do well.

True.

We pay $8M for the 2023 buy out, although it doesnt count on the lux tax line.

So, I guess the report some poster claimed about Bloom turning down a top pitching prospect for JBJ was dead on accurate.

Indeed, and that has what has made Vaz serviceable over the years. He did have a 2 year stretch where nis OPS was near .800, but at age 33, I doubt he repeats that.

I wasn't going to bring it up, bgut many said, if CERA means so much, why hasn't Bloom traded Vaz for a CERA guy. Well, ...

I don't either. To me, he's like Sandy Leon- any offense is a plus, but Sandy did play in about half the games for a 3 year stretch, so maybe he'll be more than just a typical back-up catcher.

I get why GMs are reluctant to DFA larger salary guys, especially if they were brought in by themselves, but as of now, Hosmer is better than several players on the 26 and 40, so he is down on my list.

So, trade away future hopes for futile hopes. Good plan!

I can’t find anything either, Evan at $208.

One thing on JD. Had we traded him for a bag of balls, we'd have gotten under the tax line, which would make us much more likely to spend big, this winter or the following ones. Maybe, some think this year saw us have a better chance at winning than they see us having in 2023 and 2024, and that opinion has merit, but I don't look at it that way. I see a team with very little chanc e to make it as far as we did last year, so I'm wanted to maximize our chances in 2023 and beyond. I realize I am in a small minority, and Bloom/Henry had other factors involved with their choice than I did with my suggestions and ideas. I get it. I had mentioned we might walk the line and be buyers and sellers. I suppose that's kind of what we did, but it still kind of surprised me.

I understand why they did not trade players we can't trade this winter, because their control expires, but it doesn't mean I have to like the idea. We aren't winning it all this year. To me, that's what matters. I don't own the team. I don't have to make fans happy. I don't have to sell season tickets. I fully understand why we didn't trade JD, Nate, Hill and maybe the others on the IL for the best we could get, even if it was scraps, but I'd rather we tried to improve our future than follow a pipe dream. We were able to trade Diekman, so I wonder what the offers were. Could we have traded JBJ? Either way, we pretty much have the same team with some tweaks and guys coming off the IL. I'm going to follow the pipedream and hope for a miracle. Lord knows, I've been wrong enough about this team, already, so maybe the biggest mistake will be the team winning and maybe even making and advancing in the playoffs. We're not far from the last WC slot, and some teams ahead of us sold off key parts to their teams. I'm not sure, if we'll see Wacha, Kike, Strahm, Sale and Paxton, this year, and maybe Barnes or someone else will join the club and give us a boost. It seems many posters feel like we are just 1-3 key players away from a strong run, so maybe those three will be 3 from Hill, Nate, Wacha, Sale, Paxton, Hosmer, Pham, Casas, Crawford, Wink or a surprise player. I'm going to watch every game and root like hell we win. The last 4 games have been a good sign. Maybe the trades will shake up the remaining players. GO SOX!!!

Misery loves company. I know I used to seek to right wrongs (or perceived wrong), but over time, I realized it just feeds more and more from them. I'm not telling anyone what to do, and it may ring hollow, since I fed the trolls for years, but I'm thinking, if we all ignore them, maybe they'll go away, or at least lessen their drivel. Don't give trolls the attention they seek. Who knows what motives posters have for chumming up with trolls. Maybe it helps them think of more names to call those they disagree with. LOL!

So, the genius GM, who built such a shity team, was only a Drury away from a chance at a ring? LMAO!

So, is this the 2023 foundation Bloom has to work with? SP: Sale, Pivetta, Paxton, Winckowski, Crwford/Bello/Seabold/Mata RP: Houck, Whitlock, Schreiber, Taylor, Davis, German/Barnes/Brasier/Sawamura/Danish C: McGuire, Wong, RHern 1B/DH: Casas, Hosmer, Dalbec 2B: Arroyo, Downs SS: Story 3B: Devers LF: Pham, Cordero (Verdugo/Duran) CF: Duran RF: Verdugo, Refsnyder I'd have to list our top priority open slots as: SS/2B (whichever Story does not play) CF SP C 1B/RF/DH RP SP

I'm not so sure. Yes, he'll be 33, next season, but he's basically free. You think they DFA him before Cordero? (Cordero can play OF.) Dalbec still has options and is not showing he is better than Hosmer and deserves to be on the 26. I'm not saying he'll never be DFA'd, but I think Bloom got him for more than just 2022.

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Listening to the sports talk show hosts here in Houston, they seem to be expecting Vaz will be able to "help should Maldo's load."

Let's remember that several of the games best catchers took a while to become established. I could be totally wrong, but I don't think Vaz was part of the 2023 and beyond plans. (Watch us re-sign him, now, LOL) McGuire gives us one more guy to throw in the 2023 mix, along with Wong and RHern. Maybe the best one ends up our back-up, but McGuire does have 2 more years of control. Rememb er, this is the team that kept Sandy Leon around for 3 years as he hit .571. He played half the games in those 3 years- 239 games, at that!