You usually don’t get rich and stay rich being stupid about your money. That is not hollow, that’s using your brain.
Maybe Correa is thinking back to the Astros taking him to arbitration in 2019. He asked for $5,000,000 and they countered with $4,250,000. It’s a small thing, but I am sure he remembered. George Springer had a lot of reasons to move on, but he was reportedly upset with management for delaying his MLB start. Expecting home town discounts from successful, clutch players like this is harder when this kind of thing happens.
Losing both of those players two years in row, on top of Gerrit Cole and Verlander, would be devastating.
It’s not devastating. It was expected. The Astros had a 5-year window, starting on 2017. You knew they would not be able to keep that core team together either because of age or free agency. This is year five.
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Cue the “he’s out of line, but he’s right” meme.
You guys look at team/player/money things a lot differently than I, which is to be expected. As y’all remind me daily, I am old and out of touch with the times.
I gotta be honest, I thought the window was going to be 4 years so, this year feels like a bonus year to me. On top of that, since this year feels like a bonus, I have the nagging thought of, “I wonder if they can do it (another year of 95-100 wins) again next year maybe”. I’m totally setting myself up for disappointment.
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I’m not so negative. There’s no reason Altuve/Bregman/Alvarez/Tucker and McCullers/Valdez/Garcia/Urquidy can’t form a solid core going forward. It’s just that with Correa that’s still a championship core.
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This.
Absolutely it’s still a very solid team. But it’s not the same level as say 2019. Losing Springer, and possibly Correa…not to mention Cole, Verlander, and Greinke…and that window is closing fast. No reason they can’t compete, but it’s simply not the same level of talent and expectations.
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The entire front page of today’s New York Times sports section is devoted to an article on Correa.
2019 was likely the best Astros team we’ll ever see.
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I think some of you said that about 1998.
Definitely up there.
But 2 aces puts 2019 over the top.
Of course the lesson in baseball is no matter how good you are, always bet on the field.
1998 was then and was until 2019. That team was historically great. The loss in the WS will never leave me. Home field advantage, our two Cy Young pitchers starting four games, but we lost three of their games and all four at home? No way.
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1986 was the best Astros team for me. If not the best, then at least on the medal stand. Maybe I’m just being sentimental.
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Today is the anniversary of the Game 6 loss. Neil and I have an automatic reminder every year because of our daughters’ birthdays.
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That team crushed me, and to a opponent whose roster was riddled with felons
On talent, I’m not sure they’re in the top 10.
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Let me play this out:
Definitely better:
2017-2021
2004-2005
1998-1999
I think they were better:
2001
1980
So that’s 11 right there.
To me, 04 has an argument for top 4 along with 18, 19, and 98
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