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Planet Houston
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Well, it just wasn't in the cards this year.  A combination of great play by the BoSox, the injury bug, inopportune cold streaks and inability to put batters away with 2 outs resulted in an early exit

Seasick Sailor
Seasick Sailor

Thanks for the memories:

henrygandorf
henrygandorf

am i the only one having trouble understanding wtf this means?

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1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:

Goldschmidt for Framber Valdez, Derek Fisher, and AJ Reed would give Arizona cheap replacements for Corbin, Pollock, and Goldy.  That may seem like a light package but a rental 1B on a $14M salary just doesn’t carry much surplus value no matter how good he is.

Maybe that gets it done, but I bet they'd ask for Alvarez in place of Reed. Or, if they were smart they would. 

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Keuchel is currently being interviewed by Stu Varney on Fox Business Channel.

Edit:  Only caught the tail end of it, but he responded to "You'd have to shave your beard if you went to the Yankees" with "In the right situation anything is possible."

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Keuchel is currently being interviewed by Stu Varney on Fox Business Channel.

Edit:  Only caught the tail end of it, but he responded to "You'd have to shave your beard if you went to the Yankees" with "In the right situation anything is possible."

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You need to check your ears.

He actually said:

 

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i've read a few different articles about catchers, and it seems like the mets and the stros are the teams that continue to come up in any mention of ramos and grandal.  mets have also checked in on maldonado.  it sounds like if we can get the mets to commit to one of mm/ramos, we can be the frontrunner on grandal, and hopefully there won't be too much of a bidding war (which is something i doubt we participate in).

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29 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Which one of you is the writer(not the WR) Patrick Creighton?

He said all we got to do to win the WS is the following:

1.trade for Kluber
2.trade for Realmuto
3. Sign Nelson Cruz
4. Sign Daniel Murphy
5. Sign Craig Kimbrel

Lolz

https://houston.sportsmap.com/5-moves-get-astros-back-world-series/?fbclid=IwAR1z1vmcs3nFEfxQfR22NuFCZ4bJx0wZniOzxEK-RPEm6bHh1ERPySB9N7Q

 

come to think about it, ive never seen you and patrick creighton in the same room !

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The Astros had a trade in place for Harper on July 30, but the deal collapsed when Washington Nationals ownership refused to approve the move, according to major-league sources.

Without Harper, the Astros still finished 103-59, won their second straight AL West title and swept the Cleveland Indians in the Division Series. But in the American League Championship Series, the eventual World Series champion Boston Red Sox defeated the Astros in only five games.

For Harper, the Nationals would have obtained right-hander J.B. Bukauskas, the Astros’ No. 8 prospect according to MLBPipeline.com, and two other minor leaguers, sources said. Catcher Garrett Stubbs, the team’s No. 15 prospect, was in play, and the Nationals would have received another, low-level, minor-league pitcher as well.

The package was far better than the compensatory pick the Nationals will receive after the fourth round of the 2019 draft if Harper turns down their qualifying offer on Monday, as expected, and eventually signs with another club.

The Nationals will qualify for the lowest form of draft-pick compensation after joining the Red Sox as one of only two teams to exceed the $197 million luxury-tax threshold during the  2018 season. While the Sox won the World Series, the Nats finished 82-80, eight games behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East.

Nats ownership long has been fond of Harper, whom the team selected with the No. 1 pick of the 2010 draft, and might have feared that trading him would harm their relationship with the player and reduce their chances of signing him.

As it turned out, those chances might be diminishing, anyway. Harper, 26, rejected a 10-year, $300 million offer from the Nats on the final day of the regular season, according to the Washington Post, opting to enter the free-agent market instead.

Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo did not respond to a request for comment. Astros GM Jeff Luhnow declined comment.

Harper would have given the Astros an additional left-handed bat in their lineup, helping compensate for the struggles of right fielder Josh Reddick, who produced only a .690 OPS after the All-Star Game, and the loss of catcher Brian McCann, who was out from July 3 to Sept. 1 following right knee surgery.

After learning they could not land Harper, the Astros put together another trade that would have sent right-hander Francis Martes to the Chicago White Sox for outfielder Avisaíl García, sources said. That deal failed to come to fruition when the Astros expressed concern over the condition of García’s right knee.

García, a right-handed hitter, would play the rest of the season, but batted only .197 with a .631 OPS in the final two months and underwent arthroscopic surgery on his knee on Oct. 2. Martes had Tommy John surgery on Aug. 15, but the White Sox were aware of his condition at the time the deal was discussed, sources said.

The Astros, according to sources, also pursued another right-handed hitter in the days before the non-waiver deadline, believed to be St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Tommy Pham. But that trade, if it indeed was discussed, also failed to materialize, with Pham going to the Tampa Bay Rays instead.

On July 30, the day the Nationals and Astros struck their preliminary agreement on Harper, the Nats were 52-53, 5 1/2 games back in the NL East. The Nats’ front office, frustrated by the club’s performance, had informed teams that Harper and other veterans were available. But at 10:30 a.m. on July 31, less than six hours before the non-waiver deadline, Rizzo sent the Washington Post a text saying, “Bryce is not going anywhere. I believe in this team.”

A trade of right-handed reliever Brandon Kintzler to the Cubs was the Nats’ only move that day. The team initially rallied, winning six of seven games. But it then dropped nine of 13, prompting a flurry of deals — second baseman Daniel Murphy to the Chicago Cubs and first baseman Matt Adams to the St. Louis Cardinals on Aug. 21, then left-hander Gio Gonzalez to the Milwaukee Brewers and righty reliever Ryan Madson to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Aug. 31.

The Nats had a second opportunity to move Harper when the Dodgers claimed him on waivers in August, but turned down an offer of outfielder Yasiel Puig, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Bukauskas, the pitcher the Nats would have acquired from the Astros, was the 15th overall pick of the 2017 draft, but missed most of the first three months of last season due to a slipped disc in his thoracic spine. He pitched at five levels after returning, peaking at Double A and producing a 2.14 ERA in 59 innings.

Stubbs, the Astros’ minor-league catcher who was discussed, was an eighth-round pick in 2015 who batted .310 with an .836 OPS in 84 games at Triple A last season.

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