@LarryTheGM I’ve seen some of your tweets on X, and I have no doubt it takes a lot of time for you to develop content. My intention was to help you successfully acclimate here, regardless of your posting frequency. This is a forum where intelligent baseball takes are respected, and the hot take garbage you see at times on X gets ridiculed.
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Oh God! I may have found my Nirvana then!
Folks,
Please feel free to follow me on social media usually LarryTheGM, or Larry TheGM, or LarryTheGMMan on X where I have a site account (recommended) and a personal account where I get attacked at least weekly by let’s just say the less intelligent. On Facebook too where the waters are equally umm shallow.
Don’t feel like you have to. I will post here as long as you let me.
I think the point is that this place is a group of people who don’t fit into any of your three buckets. I know I don’t. Decisions have to be made sure, they do every season for every team. But to suggest that the Astros need to either 1) open the vault at all costs, 2) blow it up and start over, or 3) wring their hands at their predicament is a false trichotomy. The Astros are in a very good, and envious, position.
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Hudson that is not what bucket three is.
Bucket three is literally what I said
Manage EVERY move to be in a position to re-sign Bregman after the season
It means they have to make deals that will not blow up their 2025 payroll so that they have the flexibility to decide what to do with Bregman.
" If the Astros don’t extend Bregman now and don’t trade him now, what are they supposed to do? They would do as they did with the other key players on this team for the past five years. Don’t do ANYTHING with Bregman right now until it’s clear how the 2024 season will go. If in strong contention let it ride and see where the season goes. Follow the plan advocated here in “Improving the 2024 Astros- The Comprehensive Plan” where the team makes strategic trades now to shore up the weaker areas of the team without putting the payroll into an unsustainable territory."
New posters who add to the conversation with intelligent baseball takes are always welcome here. As to where to post your content, this thread or the 2024 Roster thread probably make the most sense.
No, this is literally bucket three in the article:
“Fans that have accepted that the Astros have major challenges in the next year and that difficult choices need to be made right now and for the next 18 months”
Most of us here don’t fall into that bucket. Furthermore, even fewer would suggest re-signing Bregman should have any outsized influence on the deals they make leading up to then. He is simply not the grease in the wheel you seem to suggest.
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Ok Hudson
We will just have to agree to disagree about the value of Bregman to this team. I suppose if the rumor spreaders are right we will find out.
I think Dana Brown has himself discussed the challenge the Astros have with multiple players he would want to extend but the knowledge that he has limited financial flexibility. I believe he is clearly signaling NOT to expect major big-name FAs. This challenge exists through the 2025 season.
If you think they will sign big FAs, then we will just have to see.
I cannot put in posts what I have detailed in numerous articles over the past month. I guess I will try to describe it as more things happen this off-season.
Do you always twist and project this much?
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Jim Crane loves winning more than anything and is not cheap, nor stupid. He knows he cannot continue to let his All-Star/Elite level players leave without suitable replacements and expect this run to continue. In the case of Springer, Altuve, Bregman, Correa, Alvarez and Tucker were still here. With Correa, the team had a very good prospect ready to take over in Jeremy Peña. There is no such 3B prospect waiting to take Bregman’s spot, and Tucker is a free agent after 2025. Dana Brown is also on the record in an interview on SportsTalk 790 that he expects to get an extension done with Tucker. I’d expect Altuve to be an Astro for life and an extension to be reached with one of Tucker or Bregman.
If the plan was to break everything up and hire Dana Brown to restock the farm system, he doesn’t pull strings to give up two of the Astros’ promising prospects so he could bring back Justin Verlander last August with the Mets eating a significant portion of his salary. The Astros will either work out an extension with Bregman, or they will play it out like they did with Springer and Correa before him. This is still a team that has made seven straight ALCS appearances and was one game away from making it back to the World Series after a very up-and-down regular season.
During Dana Brown’s time in Atlanta, he was responsible for getting the Braves’ young talent signed to extensions. That’s a big reason why he’s here.
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Agreed and THAT is why he will be VERY careful about who he signs and/or trades for now. And why there will NOT be big money deals now.
Well shake it up baby, now
(Shake it up baby)
Twist and project
(Twist and project)
I was certain you’d follow this up with “yeah, well consider the source…the guy who thinks the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap.”
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Yes, more readable thanks.
They ARE self-indulgent overrated crap.
As are those who read Susan Sontag novels.
I don’t quite understand what the Sea Hags are doing.
Jerry gonna DiPoto
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And I don’t understand why Atlanta accommodated them. This confuses me from both sides.
I don’t know how they intend to replace 2 more bats, when adding at least 1 bat was the major offseason need, but they have publically stated that they are looking to reduce strikeouts and both Suarez and Kelenic were over 30%.
Dumping salary.
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