Yep re: LMJ. A team needs mop up relievers. That’s a good/safe holding bin for him to see if his velocity comes back or he adjusts to an off speed specialist.
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So, looking down the road, what are the details on the vesting options in Correa’s contract? Anyone know?
Apple TV tonight. So thoughtful of them to provide an alternative audio link.
It’s a pure salary dump for purposes of selling the franchise.
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From b-ref. Reasonable chance he hits the PA threshold in any given season, virtually impossible he hits them all given his injury history.
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To recap what went the other way:
Twine Palmer 19th round pick 2024 to Baltimore
Matt Mikulski Minor league free agent (26 and pitching in A+ ball) to Twins
Ryan Gusto - 11th round pick 2019
Chase Jaworsky - 5th round pick in 2023
Esmil Valencia - signed in 2023 out of DR for $897.5K
Only Jaworsky (#13) was ranked in top prospects by MLB. People kept saying the Astros didn’t have the prospects to do much at the deadline. They figured out a way to do a lot at the deadline and kept all but one of their top 30 prospects.
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Tomorrow night
It’s number of PAs or top 5 MVP finish. It scales down starting at 540 PA in 2028. If he doesn’t reach the PA threshold it becomes a team option
I can’t wait.
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And according to Fangraphs, the Astros are just under the luxury tax!
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Awful day to be a Twins fan. Sold off half their roster.
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My memory on the actual numbers was wrong. The 4 option years are 575 PA in 28, 550 in 29, 525 in 30 and 502 in 31
Eta: will also vest if he is top 5 in MVP, wins SS, or WS/LCS MVP
It’s rough.
The chances Correa vests, Needs 575 PA in 28, he has done that 4 times in 11 years all when he was younger.
What’s left after the 30 million the Twins threw in amounts to 22M a year the next 3 years 2026/2027/2028.
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Cubs DFA’d Ryan Pressly…
One of these days/years/decades, the pundits will stop calling the Astros farm system “one of the worst in the league”. Every year, every single year, they have the pieces necessary to restock the major league club when injuries happen AND make high impact trades at the deadline increasing their chances and ultimately getting them to the postseason. The very reasons you manage a farm system well. Every year. Year after year after year.
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People call the Astros Front Office “shrewd”. While that may be an apt description, a better description would be “very very good at their job”.
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Awful to be a remaining player on that roster.
Apparently the Padres were asking for Arrighetti and 3 prospects for Cease. Yeah that’s a big no thanks and a small fuck off from me. I wouldn’t deal Arrighetti for 2 months of Cease straight up
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Good grief!