Could also bring back Bregman in addition to this deal and roll with Paredes at 1B.
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Quite a return. Kyle Teel (high ranked catching prospect), Braden Montgomery (high ranked outfield prospect) and more. He’s under control longer than Tucker or Framer, but it’s a good sign about the prices teams are willing to pay in trade right now.
A quick look so may have missed something but from what I viewed with neither lost or picked up a player in the Major League portion of the Rule 5 draft. Midway through 3rd round of Minor League phase we haven’t lost a player, but have picked up 3.
Just saw the Astros are up to five now without any losses.
Sorry. Already was posted in Rule 5 Thread.
Look both ways before posting minor league related stuff in the talk zone or you might get hit by a Bus
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I love the Bus Ride section of this forum. But the last time I was glued to it was in the Correa/Springer years of ascension since there wasn’t anything really to focus on with the ML club. I hope to keep quasi ignoring the Bus Ride even as great as it is…
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Ignore the Bus Ride at your own peril…
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Paredes is another .230-.240 hitter.
Fuck that.
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Is this 1970? Batting average is a terrible measure of offensive value.
His .346 on base percentage would have been 6th on the Astros last year, and 2 of the 5 ahead of him were Cesar Salazar and Ben Gamel.
He is the 3rd most pull-prone hitter in MLB ( Altuve and Hoskins). He hit 19 HR last year, but if all of his PAs were in Houston, he would have had 26.
And that was in a down year after being traded. He projects to be much better.
And who is a better option?
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Not sure that I would call it “terrible”.
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Ok. Inadequate then.
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MLB channel creaming all over potential Kyle Tucker trade.
Tucker would love San Fran’s RF? They have the money to keep him, yes? What prospects do they have to send back?
I’m riding the bus so much more since I set my home page to “Latest.” That shows you all of the most recently updated threads regardless of category. I don’t miss nuthin’.
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That is a more bogus kind of a stat than BA. I get the point and its usefulness but it’s obviously not a real thing when you have to preface it with a “but if”. It assumes he would have been pitched the exact same way, he would have swung at the exact same pitches, and he would hit them to the same locations. What are the odds of that happening?
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I’m still trying to wrap my head around people thinking Tucker would benefit from San Francisco’s RF.
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If by people you mean me, that may have been the rye talking
eta: in my defense, I was watching a Barry Bonds documentary
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I acknowledge this.
But any of us who who watched Bob Watson have 9 and 11 HR seasons in the Astrodome have to recognize the impact a home stadium has on HR totals.
I was just trying to point out that there is reason to expect more than just a typical “.230-.240 hitter”
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Excellent point. Jimmy Wynn hit 37 in the dome in 1967 when it was harder to hit one than when Watson played. It had to go into the mezzanine to be a HR, there was no yellow line. It would have been 50+ in the “Launching Pad” in Atlanta, at least according to Henry Aaron.