I am excited to see what Diaz can do over the next 5+ years
Straw has done enough in Cleveland that it won’t be considered horribly one sided, but its nice to have another positive trade to help balance the scales a bit, considering some of the all-time bad trades in Astros history.
Any team would kill to have Bagwell/Anderson and Alvarez/Fields on the right side of their ledger.
No kidding. The Astros have had some bad ones, but they have in their favor two of the most lopsided deals in baseball history. Hard to argue they’re behind the curve in that regard.
Anderson was an exceptional reliever at one time for us. Fields was fairly decent also. Bagwell was a somewhat known commodity. Alvarez really has to be considered a shot in the dark. I believe on either a coach or scouts recommendation. Win some and lose some.
You have officially lost your fucking mind.
Anderson was a good reliever for us. I don’t catalogue stats in my head. Had to review stats. Both trades much better in our favor.
I still rank the Joe Morgan and Mike Cuellar trades as the worst and second worst trades in club history.
Kenny Lofton ahead of Cuellar
Bingo.
The Kenny Lofton trade is the one that gets me the most. That’s the one that hurts me.
The Curt Schilling trade didn’t age well.
I also do not recall if Houston traded Bobby Abreu or what happened there exactly but it burns knowing they had him before he turned into a star.
They lost Abreu to the Devil Rays in the expansion draft. Hunsicker had three outfielders he wanted to keep: Abreu, Richard Hidalgo, and Derek Bell. He could only protect two of them, and Bell was coming off a 113-RBI season, and was considered most likely to get selected by is hometown team. So it sort of came down to Abreu and Hidalgo. He chose Hidalgo, who was considered the better prospect at the time, hoping to sneak all three through the draft. He didn’t. He lamented numerous times that not protecting Abreu was his biggest goof as Astros GM.
Ah, that’s right, thanks for the refresher. At the time it did seem like Hidalgo was a great prospect.
It aged better than he did.
I cannot argue with that. He did have a very good MLB career though.
Losing both Abreu and JD Martinez without compensation or FA is pretty tough.
Very good. I’m not convinced it was HOF worthy even if he had been the nicest guy anyone ever met.
Yeah, losing Abreu was trying to get cute. Losing Martinez was just short sightedness.
Lost Johan Santana in the rule 5 draft around that time too
As far as HOF worthy, in my opinion a good comparable is Kevin “the plumber” Brown. Brown did not make it and neither should Schilling.