Cuellar was traded in 1968
Staub was traded in 1969.
The time frame is correct; Clendenon landed with the Mets and got a ring
Didn’t we end up getting Jack Billingham as some sort of compensation for Donn Clendenon refusing to play in Houston?
Two pitchers-him and Skip Guinn, I think.
Your narrative time frame was not.
Your cited time frame is correct; the respective Cuellar and Staub deals were Dec 68 and April ‘69. I’d like to know how much of the deal was retaliation for the boycott. Staub was 25 yo and the future centerpiece of the organization. We were dead last in ‘75 as a result of multiple deals like that
What boycott? Kennedy’s death was 1963; Staub was traded in 1969. Retaliation six years later?
News traveled slowly back in those days, I guess.
Conspiracy theories abound.
From Astro’s daily. It has been cited elsewhere
The nation’s turmoil spilled onto the baseball diamond. The start of the season was delayed after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was killed two months later, baseball teams were left to decide on their own whether to postpone their games. Astros management chose not to stop playing but Rusty Stauband Bob Aspromonte sat out in protest. Both were traded after the season.
ROBERT Kennedy. There were two of them.
The kid is killing the ball
Awesome. So that’s 27 games in the next 27 days, and ANOTHER game in Oakland. Astros have now had to give up two of their 30 home games.
Astros need to find away to postpone some road games, for a change.
I saw people speculating about changing to 7 inning format for all games.
It would not surprise me if this happens at some point this season as they try to squeeze in all these games while players drop like flies on the IL.
My money is on Fiers.
They said COVID, not gonorrhea.
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Fiers isn’t sick, but he turned in the guy who is.
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Outstanding, Buford!
Are we sure Fiers didn’t catch it from some young girl?