FWIW, No. 3 and No. 28, according to Baseball America. Still probably less than the Kikuchi cost.
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Every honest Dodger fan would gladly swap places with us.
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Rome says Astros are done.
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Pound of flesh taken by Click
Chandler Rome reports the Astros are done – no more deals coming.
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Maybe the Astros similarly ranked prospects are not equal to the Dodgers’ in the industry’s eyes.
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Yeah I doubt the Dodgers’ #3 prospect is anything to sneeze at.
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Talking heads saying the Flaherty return is light, especially compared to Kikuchi deal.
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This is true, no doubt. The main piece from the Dodgers is better than any of the 3 the Astros gave up but the second part of the Dodger deal is an organizational depth piece. The Astros gave up a big leaguer, and two close to big league ready guys for a worse pitcher.
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The Tigers held on too long and had to drop the price substantially or get nothing. That’s why I said yesterday that the Astros could have waited and got a better price for Kikuchi.
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Maybe… or they could have gotten stuck with nothing. This team needed more SP in the worst way, and couldn’t afford to gamble on nothing – so they had to move. That likely played a part in the high price.
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Maybe. We have no idea what their demand was to the Astros—they might have held out for some of our higher-upside position players.
100% agree that waiting it out is what helped the Dodgers, but waiting it out can also back fire.
We had to get a SP and got one….thankfully I might add. Time to let it go and hope it was enough to put this team over the top.
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Yep. To get a good deal, you’ve got to be able to walk away from the negotiation table. And it was dead obvious to anyone paying attention that Dana Brown did not have that luxury.
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The haul they got for Soto must have helped with that to an extent. The Padres have long been very active, but the results haven’t been there outside of beating the Dodgers once in a playoff series.
I am 100% confident that the same deal the Astros accepted would have still been there today. Nobody else was beating that for Kikuchi. You wait, you kick the tires elsewhere. With an hour or two left in the deadline, if you haven’t gotten a better deal, then take it. The Astros panicked when before they actually needed to.
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It’s an open question whether they’d have been better off getting stuck with nothing.
For what it’s worth, Fangraphs, which is one of the only publications that update throughout the year, has this to say.
Liranzo, the main piece from the Dodgers for Flaherty, is ranked 73, and Bloss is 92. Wagner and Sweeney are about the same on their “future value” rating. Loperfido has graduated, but at the start of the year, they had him right below Bloss on the Astros list.
At best, it’s a wash. In reality, the Astros outbid themselves.
But what’s done is done. Go get em Yusei and make none of it matter
Everyone knew the Astros were desperate, which never helps a negotiation position. So, what happens at 1B? Ride or die with Singleton?
I guess so