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There is some value in familiarity. Introducing a new manager adds risk, as the new manager could generate conflict with star players, which can completely derail an organization. That’s not necessarily an endorsement of Houston keeping Espada, but just to say comparing Espada keeping his current job versus interviewing for other jobs is not apples to apples. I will also say that as a fellow Puerto Rican I would expect Correa to lobby hard on Espada’s behalf; who knows how much weight that holds.
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Assuming they make a move to replace Framber’s production (either with one true ace or with multiple quality arms) that doesn’t impact the big league roster elsewhere, the pitching staff will be at least as productive as it was this year, barring another insane injury bug. Having Alvarez, Pena, and Paredes healthy for a full season adds 5-10 wins to this roster vs 2025. Having Correa for a full season also probably adds another win or two. So even before accounting for the possibility of a young player (Smith, Cole, Melton, Matthews, Blubaugh, Ullola, Pecko) breaking out, or Walker or Diaz rebounding, this team projects to be a dozen or so wins better than they were this season. Aside from injuries, the only real downside to this roster is age related decline in Walker and Altuve, and those guys only combined for 3 wins this season, so it’s not like that’s a major risk. If they replace Framber’s production and stay healthy, this is a 92-102 win team.
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My 2 variations of a reasonable offseason plan: Option 1: Trade Walker, Sanchez, and Dubon to free up salary Sign a 2nd/3rd tier free agent SP (Gallen, Flaherty, Eflin, King, Kelly, Verlander, Littell, Civale, Morton, Houser, Fedde, Scherzer, Heaney, Canning) Trade upper level high risk/ceiling prospects for a high ceiling SP (Gore, Lopez, Ryan, Alcantara, Pepiot, Rasmussen, Cabrera) Sign a free agent 7th inning RH RP (Maton, Harvey, loads of other options) Resulting roster: SS Pena 1B Paredes DH Alvarez 3B Correa 2B Altuve RF Smith LF Cole CF Meyers Bench: Urias, Salazar, Dezenzo, Trammell SP: Brown, Rasmussen, Javier, Littell, Blubaugh, McCullers, France RP: Hader, Abreu, Harvey, King, Sousa, Okert Option 2: Trade Pena for 2 elite (MLB Top 50) prospects plus a young #4 SP Trade Meyers for 2 decent prospects other teams will want Trade some of those prospects for a high ceiling SP (Gore, Lopez, Ryan, Alcantara, Pepiot, Rasmussen, Cabrera) Sign a free agent 7th inning RH RP (Maton, Harvey, loads of other options) Roster: CF Smith 3B Paredes DH Alvarez SS Correa 2B Altuve 1B Walker RF Cole C Diaz LF Sanchez bench: Dubon, Urias, Salazar, Dezenzo SP: Brown, Rasmussen, Javier, TBD, Blubaugh, McCullers, France RP: Hader, Abreu, Harvey, Sousa, King, Okert
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That is at least partially a product of how late they’ve drafted the last 7 years. Prospects who have both hit and power tools get drafted in the top 15 picks. After that you’re choosing between Jacob Melton types (power/speed with k issues) or Grae Kessinger types (guys who make contact but can’t hit for power).
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I’m actually encouraged by him saying his foot was hurting him. He needs to play less next season but I still think he can finish out his contract/career as a ~2 win player who can hit in the middle of the order. But his days of playing 150 games a season and playing the field 110+ games a year should probably be over. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. There might be a team out there that views Dubon as a stopgap 1-year solution to a vacant everyday SS spot and would be willing to toss Houston a 3rd tier prospect for him. For Houston I think the $7M+ he’s gonna cost would be better used to add pitching.
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I don’t want them to trade away pitchers Ethan Pecko, Bryce Mayer, or Anderson Brito, and they should avoid offering up their very high ceiling guys in the lower levels (namely Xavier Neyens and Kevin Alvarez), but yeah, any number of their power/speed/k guys from the upper levels (Melton, Cole, Dezenzo, Leon, Corona, Matthews, Sullivan, Whitcomb) would probably be best used as trade chips.
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The absolute morons running the Democratic Party never cease to amaze me. Why in the blue fuck would they cooperate with Trump and the current version of the GOP in ANY way?!?!?!?!?!?! The fucking ONLY thing they should be saying about the budget standoff is “Donald Trump is a criminal authoritarian and we cannot be complicit in his continued quest to turn America into a dictatorship. If Donald Trump would like to dispel any of these accusations, he can endorse our balanced budget proposal, which includes universal healthcare, massive increases in education funding, dramatically increased incentives for first time home buyers, and massive tax hikes on billionaires and the super wealthy.” The fact that they are even feigning an attempt to negotiate is a tacit endorsement of Trump as a legitimate leader. Fuck that.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
This is exactly what people should be doing. These dumb motherfuckers will believe anything if they think “their guy” said it.- 6344 replies
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Sure, they’ve been more than willing to watch the suffering that’s already happened, but: This. Restrictions on birth control, restrictions on women voting and working, mass extermination or imprisonment of people based on religion, race, gender, sexual preference, economic status, or political affiliations…these are all things we are on track to start seeing and I am not sure Trump supporters will stay faithful through all of that. It might be too late to change anything by the time they wake up, so it might not matter.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Titist. -
Tempted to neg this post. Fuck that. Show up while you still can.
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https://www.nokings.org This is probably ineffectual but can’t hurt. There will be mass protests on 10/18. Everyone on this board should consider attending. If there are tens of millions, and if they’re louder than ever, it may give these motherfuckers pause, or at least inspire opposition leaders to act more firmly. My opinion is that it’s too late. But I will still attend.
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The Supreme Court ruled that ICE can target people because of how they look. No one is talking about it. Teachers and entertainers are being fired en masse for publicly stating opinions about a far right wing content creator and his death. The CDC has replaced multiple tiers of their leadership with anti-vaxxers and are changing the vaccination schedule to reduce access to vaccines. The president is sending troops to large cities against the will of locally elected officials. The list goes on. But there’s enough evidence that this problem is now well beyond the point where participating in the existing system (I.e. voting and protesting) can be expected to work. It’s pretty obvious that the only actions that can address this problem are very likely illegal in the eyes of the people currently in charge of creating, interpreting, and enforcing the law. So this thread is probably a bad idea. I don’t know what the answer is. But I think we are all now faced with a clear choice to either get in line or risk our lives. Any organized resistance is going to be very difficult given how easy it is for the government to surveil everyone. Good luck to all.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Dude if you think there’s any meaningful chance that anything resembling the current platform of the Democratic Party will ever hold control of the presidency or congress (much less both at the same time) any time in the next 20 years, you haven’t been paying attention. The time for that action has long since passed. Very convincing. “Just wanna say we definitely did NOT kill him.” -guy who would totally have had him killed -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
It is only a matter of time before MAGA turns on itself. The question is how much damage they will do before it happens. The left/Dems need to help it along. They should have been doing this long ago. Playing by the old rules is forfeiting the game. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Dude, look around. It’s over. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Yes. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Kirk was about to turn on Trump on Israel and Epstein and position himself for 2028, so Trump had Kirk killed. If the left had any sense, that is the conspiracy they’d be feeding. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
With some time having passed, I have come to pity Charlie Kirk. He was recruited/funded as a teenager by super wealthy right wing activists to be used as a tool to recruit the youth vote. Then, by the time he was in his early 20s, he’d used that propellant to become wealthy and famous and score a beauty queen wife by humiliating college kids and curating his conversations to generate online content and promote right wing extremist views. He didn't have the same under-the-radar conversion to adulthood that I and many others had that gave an opportunity to re-assess the belief system instilled during childhood; he was too far in the machine and had way more to lose by changing his mind than a normal person. So even though I think he had a really negative impact on the world, I feel really sorry for him. I will say this: one of his most used quotes is something to the effect of “when people stop talking, bad things happen”; I think that’s very telling about his worldview and also very wrong, because the reality is that bad things happen when people stop LISTENING. Charlie Kirk was an elite level talker, but I haven’t seen any evidence that he ever really listened. And I think that can be applied to a lot of people in today’s society and is a big reason why we are in this mess.- 6344 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
If the Democrats don’t seize on the fact that this was right wing nut on right wing nut crime, and at least attempt to hold Trump/maga/GOP accountable for their game on the Jump To Conclusions mat, they are fucking up royally (which would be no surprise). I knew this motherfucker was gonna be a right wing piece of shit as soon as Trump got asked about Kirk and immediately was like “look at that truck!” instead of talking about the evil left or talking about himself. The motherfuckers.- 6344 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Was thinking about this topic. When did the country permanently turn to the dark side? I suppose there’s an argument that is was when the country was created as a nation with legal slavery. Or when the South wasn’t properly reconstructed. Or when Obama was elected (scaring the racists annd the opportunists who manipulate them into activating). Or when that piece of shit came down that escalator in 2015. Or when he was allowed without consequence to claim the primaries were rigged. Or when he won the primary in 2016. Or he won the presidency in 2016. Or Jan 6. Or when he was re-elected. Who knows. But yeah, the moment is almost certainly in the past. -
2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Snake Diggity replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
Man I am sorry to say but you are setting yourself up for disappointment. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
Snake Diggity replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
A lot of people out here complaining about how hot it is when they chose the guy setting the thermostat.- 2909 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Snake Diggity replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
A lot of people complaining about how hot it is when they chose the guy setting the thermostat.- 6344 replies
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