Kind of interesting what the biggest contracts in baseball do and dont do -- generally they do not make the playoffs. Is this Cole's fate, ala Scott Boras? Mike Trout LAA 12 years $430+ million/$35.8+M/year Bryce Harper Phils 13 years $330M/$25.3M Giancarlo Stanton Mia 13 years $325M/$25M Manny Machado SDP 10 years $300M/$30M Nolan Arenado Colo 8 years $260M/$32.5M Miguel Cabrera Det 8 years $248M/$31M Albert Pujols LAA 10 years $240M/$24M Robinson Cano Seat 10 years $240M/$24M Left off- Alex Rodriquez - lol Does MLB need a salary cap?
I would be willing to let Correa go if we could get Rendon. Correa is pretty injury-prone and Rendon would probably love to play for his hometown team. We put him on 3rd and move Bregman to SS.
History tells us there's a good chance 1 or more of these guys return home...Bailey the most likely to stick with the O's.
Astros Win% by decade: 1960s: .429 1970s: .493 1980s: .522 1990s: .523 2000s: .514 2010s: .487 Probably not what I would have guessed had I not looked first
Top 40 Prospects: Houston Astros per Fangraphs 1 Forrest Whitley 2 Jose Urquidy 3 Abraham Toro 4 Freudis Nova 5 Bryan Abreu 6 Cristian Javier 7 Brandon Bielak 8 Korey Lee 9 Hunter Brown 10 Jairo Solis
Seems harsh I guess we can say at least they didnt ban Luhnow for life To me, the draft picks hurt the most. This sort of guts us because the slot values go away too, which will make it harder to sign other draft picks to above-slot money. The farm system is going to suffer for awhile.