he will be missed if he's traded. send him home to boston and get wilyer abreu back? or roman anthony? i doubt boston would do it for abreu or roman
I think they need to bring up Pecko and see if they can catch lightning in a bottle there. Division still firmly within reach. Need to get Hunter back out there..burrows will have his luck even out.
Pena is my guy, I really hope Nook is wrong, but he is pretty accurate with his nuggets of info. We never seem to keep the guys that "got us there', Tuck, Framber, JV, Breggy, Correa (yes we got him back on the cheap)...............we get em young, use them until there prime and then cast them off when they become expensive
They’re not going to be deadline buyers without an 8+ game winning streak at some point over the next 35 games. You never know what will happen (only the most overly pessimistic people on this board predicted they’d be this bad), and the team has the talent, but the odds are very very low.
They only get a pick if the player who gets ROY was eligible for the prospect promotion incentive. They don’t have any of those players this year. For example, if Cam Smith had finished in the top 3 of ROY voting last season, Houston would’ve gotten a pick (except for the fact that they got one for Hunter Brown finishing top 3 in CY, and teams can only get one PPI pick per season). But if Brice Matthews or Zach Cole win ROY this season, Houston will not get an extra draft pick because those guys weren’t on top 100 prospect lists this offseason.
Make this make sense. If Brice Matthews is the 2026 ROY and a top 100 prospect or he is not. He can't be both.
Not sure what you mean. PPI eligibility is based on Top 100 lists in the offseason. Matthews wasn’t on Top 100 lists that came out during the 2026-2026 offseason, so he is not PPI eligible. He is eligible for ROY because he didn’t play enough last season to lose his rookie status.
The top prospect lists are ****, if thy fail to identify a ROY winner. Or better said ... using the top prospect lists in this manner is a bad idea since the lists exist to rank prospects by their perceived potential (their ceiling) which may be many years away versus a "who is likely to get called up next year and be successful" list.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...0-kiley-mcdaniel-first-pick-chicago-white-sox 16. Texas Rangers Sawyer Strosnider, CF, TCU This is the part of the draft where teams aren't really sure who's getting to them (this is around where scouting directors ask me who I think will make it to their pick) so they're still figuring out who their targets are for different scenarios. This is around the middle of Strosnider's range, and he would be a local pick for the Rangers. 17. Houston Astros Aiden Robbins, CF, Texas I've generally lumped Strosnider and Robbins together through this process, both power-over-hit outfielders at major Texas colleges, and things worked out in this scenario that they landed back-to-back to the two Texas MLB franchises. Robbins should go in the next half-dozen picks if he gets past this pick.
Yeah it’s a very flawed system. I think it should just be that if a team has a rookie eligible player on their big league roster for the entire season and he finishes top 3 in ROY/CY/MVP, then they get a pick. Do away with the list component altogether.
