Astros: Even after signing Christian Walker, is outfield help next?

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1. Brett it Is San Tan Der! Not San Tan Dar bro lol

2. Profar will do me since the 2 more draft picks to lose with signing Santander

3. I highly doubt they add anyone else. They are already over the first threshold for the luxury tax. They ain’t going over the 2nd and anyone worth signing is going to get around 20m AVV. Maybe they get Alex verdugo or some smoo like that.

4. I highly doubt he turned down an extra 15m. That 3y 75m deal has to be fake.

5. To hell with the threshold spend make the team better

6. Brett we need Anthony Santander

7. Let’s get Profar then he won’t be that expensive

8. Oh Brett you just said it , what i was saying all last year , we should have traded Bregman

9. Sounds like we still have a problem at 3rd base. Tired of excuses. All we get are promises. This doesn’t look like ownership wants to spend money on our legacy players. It’s not going to be cheaper next year. Soto made sure of that.

10. What we need is an owner that owns a cable tv network. Or have a salary cap that cost prospects instead of money. Don’t blame bregman. He didn’t promise to keep this team viable the owner did.

11. We need Bergman. He doesn’t need us. This guy blaming Bergman because he doesn’t want to give up fifty million dollars? Yea right. Sorry Soto made the price of baseball to go up. Blame the mets and the dodgers. They are pricing the small market clubs out of contention. Free agency is gotten out of hand. 700 million? Thats ridiculous just for a ring.

12. If Walker was an option the whole time why did we ever make Bregman an offer?

13. You could blame crane for handing out bad contracts. Abreu, Hader, Montero. Millions tied up.

14. I kind of look at it like we are the Rays of the south.

    We have these good players but when it’s time to pay up we let these guys walk and let these young guys or sign these good players and they can produce

    Eric is right Crane hates these long term deals and with his thinking he not going to sign a lot of star players.

    Do I agree with this thinking I do because you don’t want to have your money tied up to one guy and we know that these contracts backfire

    Look at Staton with the Yankees I think the Yankees had wanted to get rid of him for years due to his injuries and he declining a bit.

    But nobody is going to take him because of that contract.

    So I’m fine with Crane method it has work so far we just got to hope Christan Walker and Paredes can continue to produce

15. Profar's defensive numbers are atrocious. And we have no money available unless we can unload Pressly.

16. lets get verdugo,,,,left handed batter needed

17. I’m excited! He’s better than Arenado and WANTS to play for us. 🤘🧡

18. We need more bullpen arms

19. The stars leaving the astros is NOT the owner's fault! Springer, Correa, and Bregman, their best years are behind them. Just look at Springer and Correa after they left. Their "mega" contracts are basically dead money to their respective teams in their after age 30 years. Just imagine, their contracts would have been dead money to the astros now!!! So with that, Bregman should have been traded last year for 2 players or more. I like this version of the team, with the addition of an outfielder if the can trade Pressly. I love Luis Arraez for the outfield and to bat leadoff. Trade Pena and a minor leaguer for him!

20. Trade Pressly to the Mets or Yankees or Red Sox so he can approve the trade!

21. I'm loving this version of the astros. Sometimes, new blood is needed. The saying says, if you're not moving forward, you're just spinning your wheels. The team was going nowhere offensively with Bregman and Tucker. Especially with Tucker wanting that 10 year plus, and now 350 million plus contract!!! No!!!

22. Passan is a joke!!! He is an Astros and small market teams hater. He's pro east coast and west coast teams. Enough said.

23. It would only help down the line, players know that if they come to Houston, when they become a free agent they are gonna get paid. And we still have good relationships with our ex-stars, it’s a win win for both. Its sucks we can’t keep all of our stars but young players should want to be here. We will see if not giving our long contracts is the smarter move.

24. If signing a class player like Walker doesn't make you happy, remind yourself we have dodged a bullet with Bregman, dodged another one with Arenado, and best of all, it should mean we never see Singleton again.

25. By the way, Isaac is pronounced EYE ZACK, not EE SACK

26. Bregman
    2016-2019 34SB 286/384/527 911 OPS 144 OPS+ 21.0 WAR
    2021-2024 8SB 262/350/444 794 OPS 122 OPS+ 15.7 WAR
    Can we please stop talking about him and be glad he is gone ?
    His numbers are already going backwards. Another 6 years of Bregman would be a disaster.

27. I grew up in Houston and now I reside in New Mexico Astro fan Christian Walker Christian Walker….Who …..never heard of him

28. Wasn't Jose Altuve voicing to keep Bregman with the Astros and Paul Wall voicing to keep Bregman also

29. I’m ticked off that bregman is leaving , but I’m ticked off at bregman himself. Ppl don’t realize that the astros still offered him a very decent contract. How selfish and greedy can a person be?!? Geesh! I feel betrayed by bregman. Let him walk, let him go. Forget him!

30. We NEED to Sign Santander or Alex Verdugo..LF🤘🏾

31. Brett you exaggerate to much man

32. I have a question when bregman signs dont the astros get there 2 draft picks back on what they gave for signing walker

33. If they get there draft picks back from bregman trade pressley it give them the money for santander still only lose the orginal picks they give for walker

34. Bring Hayward back for 1 year

35. He Brett Prounce Santandare like ware

36. This logic just doesn’t work. How many contracts has Altuve signed? It was his choice to sign them. He did. And he’s the highest paid 2nd baseman in MLB. His contacts have netted him $324 million over 11 years. If Bregman would’ve signed his he would’ve netted around $300 million over 11 years with a $27 million a year salary. It was Bregman choice to leave. How is this signaling to FA or players that the Astros don’t pay? And you have the 3-4th highest payroll? And you’ve won 2 WS over the last ten years, and been in 4 of them.

37. They signed Brantley to multiple 2 year deals worth around $13 million a year so that doesn’t make Profar out of the realm of possibility. Just saying.

38. The Astros will never do a deal with the Yankees.