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Welcome into Stone Coldstros. I’m Brandon Strange with Charlie Polo and Josh Jordan. Go follow them on X at Polo and Josh Jordan SCS. On today’s episode, it was Dubon Voyage for one Houston fan favorite. We’ll talk about what we think uh Houston will do with their newfound savings and just as importantly, when the Astros have hired a new offensive coordinator. Do you think he knows how to implement the run? Asking for another Houston team. Before all that, show your support for the show by hitting like on the video. Subscribe to the channel if you haven’t. Click the bell for notifications. Commenting helps as well so we know what you’re interested in. We’re on all your favorite podcast apps where you can listen. And if you’re a Houston Texans fan, be sure to catch our other podcast, Texas on Tap, right here on YouTube. Charlie Josh, welcome in. So, ahead of Friday’s non-tender deadline, Houston tendered contracts to all their arbitration eligible players with the exception of the ones we had already covered. and Mauricio Dubon who they traded to the Braves for infielder Nick Allen. So between Aras Dubon, McCormack and Garcia, Houston will capture close to $16 million in savings be based on arbitration projections. Now Dubon was a fan favorite and the hardcore fans reacted pretty negatively from what I saw. I like him. I think the team obviously liked him, but the they value the financial flexibility more as Jim Crane is reportedly trying to get below the CBT while also addressing the needs of the team which is sing along if you know the words starting pitching and a lefty bat. What do you think about the moves and was there anything that surprised you Charlie? Let’s start with Dubon, which evidently evoked a pretty high level of emotional response for a guy who was a brilliant glove and a dead weight bat. This was a simple salary dump. So, those who love Duban’s acting chops, replacing Bregman andor Tucker in the supermarket commercials, it’ll be okay. They’ll get someone to replace him. He had almost 400 played appearances last season and those were wasted. I mean, Dubon the last two years is an absolutely terrible offensive player. Now, maybe the new hitting coach regime would have addressed something that always annoyed me with Duban cuz there’s the saying, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Duban’s offense was broke. He’s never been a good offensive player. He’s a very wiry guy and I have appreciation for wiry guys, but not when I’m paying them $5 million and their turns in the batters box are largely waste of time. But he had a horrible habit that his back foot would slide out behind him routinely. It saps your power immediately when you have very little to begin with. Uh I don’t know if CR Nitker minor league coaches he came from the Giants organization if anyone ever tried to work with him on that ultimately and we’ll see with the Astros new hitting gurus. You can lead a horse to the batters box but you can’t make him hit. So uh Duban by every account a delightful guy. Any off-field feature you saw him in just a very engaging guy and marvelous with the glove. just won his second gold glove, but that did not override the offensive liability in an Astros lineup that had too many of them. And to carry him at likely near $6 million in salary arbitration, now the guy they traded him for, Nick Allen, I feel like I could beat him up. Uh 5’8, 165. Talk about no power. He damn near makes Dubon look like Jeremy Pena uh offensively. uh career batting average 213 matched his career high batting average with the Braves 221. his career his career ops in a as as a big leager and a little over a thousand at bats 523 563 something fives frame of reference time Martine Maldonado kind of the poster boy for oh my god this guy’s terrible career OPS for Maldonado 620 Allen not even close to that he was a gold glove finalist at shortstop with the Braves here he’ll purely be Pena’s Patty Altuve at second base. He’ll get the odds start here if he even winds up on the team. But Allen projects to make about a million and a half. Duban was going to make nearly quadruple that. So, we need to wait for the other baseball spike to drop. How do the Astros reallocate the funds that they save by downgrading certainly offensively, which is a bizarre sentence to say, from Duban to Nick Allen? Yeah, I’m just going to go off of Dana Brown’s comments recently that they’re going to move Koreah over to shortstop. It sounds like when Pñena’s not able to go to spell him. And if that’s the case, and remember last year, Koreah just kind of wanted to focus on third base. And for the most part, he did last year after the trade except for an appearance there here or there. But if if that’s the plan, then you don’t need to pay Dubon all that money to give Pñena a day off when you can slip him over there. And you got Pretting quite a bit. They’re talking about Yordon playing a bunch of left field, which means Altuve is going to be at second base. So, there’s just really no need to do that. And and Charlie’s right, like Nick Allen, my lord, he’s awful. I mean, that guy cannot hit, but that’s that’s not why they’re bringing him here. So, it makes a lot of sense to me. They’re just trying to upgrade the offense, which is a good thing. It desperately needs it. They were so focused on defense last year with that moving Altuve and being more excited about Christian Walker at first base than in the batters box, which was just crazy to me. I know he’s been a gold glover, but you’re bringing him in because you thought he could hit 30 home runs and you have the Crawford boxes. That that’s the main appeal. So, yeah, if you’re going to go this route, then Dubon was a piece that Thank you for everything you did. We love you, Doobie. But he’s just he’s not a good fit anymore. They have bigger needs to address. So, they’re going to try something else. I think it’s the right move. It It’s the money in a vacuum. You’d rather have Duban than Allen on your roster. A 536, by the way, the career ops for Nick Allen. Again, Martine Maldonado, 620. Nick Allen 536. He’d need an upgrade to be a 98 pound weekly uh in the batters box. Uh hey, Duban goes to a a Braves team with a hole at shortstop. He might wind up getting some regular time there. Good for him. This is not tragic. Duban lovers. It also two things. One, when the Astros DFA Urias, right, Duban was the choice there, but said last week, he would still be tradable for minimal return, but they wouldn’t necessarily be stuck with that salary. It’s not going to excite anyone if the Duban money is reallocated to keeping Jesus Sanchez around. But this is another reminder that Bryce Matthews should be ready for the major leagues. He was drafted in the first round as a shortstop, turns 24 in spring training, played a whole season at AAA. If he’s not ready to be a fill-in shortstop, second baseman outfielder, huge disappointment for Dana Brown’s first first round draft pick running the Astros. You know, Charlie, we’re talking about the money. Critics of the move say that if you’re trying to capture salary, why absorb back a million and a half of money for a guy or who’s may not play much if at all? He may not make the club and that there are cheaper defensive only solutions, options out there. Um, how do you respond? Because they they didn’t have to make this move. It could have gone like they did with Ureas and just cut him out, right? DFA him. Why do you think they made this move? They could wind up doing that with Allen. I think I mean it’s not as if it’s optically great. See, we got a return from Mauricio Duban and whether it’s Koreah Allen, unless Pena has an injury, you’re talking 10 starts filling in for him. I Jeremy Pñena’s 150 game starter unless he cracks a rib or has some sort of other issue, right? He’s 28 years old. he should not need regular rest as opposed to Altuve who should be sitting at least once per week. Um, but a million5, anyone who’s been in the major leagues for any period of time, I mean that that’s about the minimum. The actual minimum next season’s 780,000. You pay Bryce Matthews 510,000 more than that. And we’ll hear, well, we want Bryce Matthews getting everyday playing time. He just played a full season in AAA and came on the second half of the season. He’ll be 24 in spring training. If he’s a real significant prospect, he should be ready to at least be in the major leagues. And he should start at second base a couple of days per week. and be your fill-in for Pñena at short and get a look in the outfield if no one is hitting out there. But that does not appear to be uh in the offing at least heading to spring training. No. And you know, for Dana, it’s at least you got something and like Charlie said, you’re not paying him very much money. I think part of this too is kind of like the Texans have done. Hey, you’ve been a good Soldier, Dub Bond. We’re going to send you to a quality franchise, give you an opportunity to play a fan favorite. They’re not just dumping him or sending him to some terrible organization. They’re sending him somewhere that he could have some success. So, I think that might be part of it. Of course, if they DFA him, he could have picked his own team. Yeah. But they do at least Josh send him to a play Braves had an injury destroyed team, but fair thought to be a potential big bounceback team in 2026 with much better health. That kind of sounds familiar. Uh so, best of luck to Dubon. Look, this simply is not a big loss for the Astros. This is a very bad offensive player who won’t be consuming nearly 400 plate appearances again. Indeed. And going back to the original question, I don’t think any of these moves surprised me per se. I I I am a little surprised. I thought they would either keep Urias or Dubon. So, them essentially moving both of them uh was a little surprising. What will surprise me is if we don’t see some other departures imminent via trade. And speaking of that, we’ve seen other teams already making moves. Rangers swapped Simeon for Brandon Nemo. Uh Red Sox traded for Sunny Gay. Ezen’s got some money now. They’ve captured some savings here with the dead money falling off the books and uh the moving of moving away from Urias and Dubon and the others that we mentioned. When do you think we see Dana Brown pull the trigger on something, shall we say, significant? The winter meetings are the week after next. As you alluded to, Brandon, some teams did not wait around. Uh, an interesting contract swap. The Rangers get a guy who’s been a clearly better offensive player the last two years than Brandon NMO relative to Marcus Simeon, but it’s a trade down defensively. The Rangers save salary cap money, if you will, $45 million in the near term that they take on a hundred million total obligation over five years as opposed to semi in three years, 72 million. It’s just not a gamecher for the Rangers, but their offense so awful, right? The they daed Garcia, so Astros fans need not worry about him tormenting them as a as a Ranger anymore. The one on its face mildly surprising decision was in cutting the cord with both of your utility type guys and tendering Jesus Sanchez who was just a disaster uh with the Astros. You take out that one five for five fluke game he had in Baltimore and he hit 170 in his two months with the Astros. The five for five game brought him in at 199. Still just under the Mendoza line. Uh he wasn’t just a job, he was an adventure in the outfield. Uh but two points, career ops for Jesus Sanchez against right-handed pitching, 774. That would play. There’s no reason to think Jacob Melton would do that. There’s no reason to think Zack Cole would do that. And there’s no reason to think off what he did the last three months of last season that Cam Smith is ready to do that as a full-time player. So, a Smith Sanchez platoon where Sanchez would be the majority playing time guy. You face more right-handed pitching than left-handed pitching if he reverts to his career numbers. And that 774 includes the fedded stink bomb stats that he compiled with the Astros. Or at 6 million, he’s still tradable on his own once the free agent and trade market settles a little bit and a team’s caught short for an outfielder. for the same reason he could still wind up a piece of the Astros outfield puzzle. There’ll be another team saying, you know, on a one-year hit at $6 million, we’ll take a shot that he gets back to where he was with the Marlins. So, the Astros can have some flexibility there if they want to shake loose a few more million. At this point in time, they’re a little over 25 million in working room, whether it’s for one bold move with a pitcher to to split that in half. Remember, backup catcher must be addressed. Carini is a free agent. Whether it’s giving him a raise and bringing him back if he’s interested or needing a replacement, Yiner’s not playing 150 games behind the plate. Yeah. And I think for Dana, too, doesn’t look great that the guy you traded for at the deadline just played so poorly once he joined your ball club and then you just straight let him go after that, after you gave up resources. I know they didn’t give up the farm or anything like that, but it’s just it’s not a good look. plus all new hitting coaches, new offensive coordinator. Maybe they’re thinking we can turn him around with with with a new approach. So, I think that might be part of it. And yeah, you could still trade him if you want. And then the other thing, Brandon, you brought up the lefty bat. He’s a lefty bat. It’d probably be easier to try and coach something out of him because you you know it’s in there. He’s done it before. So maybe take a shot at getting a new message around him and see if something happens before you you get rid of him and then you try and go look for another lefty bat. And we’ve already heard Dana Brown doesn’t sound like he’s super confident Cam Smith is going to be your right fielder. So you know maybe this is just a numbers game. They they have both these guys come out there and competition and see who wins the job. Yeah, they’re not offering Kyle Tucker 400 million for an emotional reunion or dropping down to a mere 150 to 200 million to bring Astros fan favorite Cody Bellinger in here, though he’d be a wonderful fit. Uh so with the uh zero major league resume of competence for Jacob Melton, a couple long home runs and and that’s it for Zack Cole, Sanchez does have a big league resume predating the two months of with the Astros. All right. So, in contrast to the departures, Houston has some arrivals, we’ve mentioned the new hitting coaches. Uh, this includes a brand new position within the organization as Dan Hanigan is promoted to offensive coordinator. He was on Channel Rome’s podcast uh discussing the new position. What’s intriguing about this new position is based on Hanigan’s description of the role, it sounds like he’s been elevated to provide some strategic structure and alignment to how Houston approaches hitting. In his words, you know, to quote, uh, build a repeatable, scalable process for how we prepare, how we can integrate different departments and make sure we’re moving the needle with young guys. You see Cam Smith. Um, he didn’t say that. that was me. Uh, and when asked about the one thing he and the new heating coaches wanted to work on, uh, he said he wanted there to be true conviction and purpose in every at bat and for the team to be versatile. Uh, so in in in other words, not just to be singularly focused with one approach at the plate on just being aggressive and being patient when the situation calls for it. And we heard Dana Brown talking about that at the uh beginning or during the last off season in the beginning of last season. That all sounds good in theory. What were your reactions to the creation of the position of this offensive coordinator position and what Hanigan had to say about it? Well, I think you hit the summary. Probably every hitting coach offensive coordinator in modern baseball would espouse largely the same thing, right? You want to be intelligently aggressive and and be prepared and and have a quality approach. Bat at bat in at bat out. Um so the theory is fine. There’s the saying in in the end it’s the carpenter not the tools. The guys in the batters box how well they take to homework assignments and classroom theory. Sometimes it’s just are you a good enough hitter? Are you disciplined? And there’s such a spectrum of guys, right? Cam Smith, young guy, started well except for generally no power for a big strong guy and then just absolutely crashed and burned and belonged to the minor leagues. And maybe he’ll wind up there during 2026 for at least a portion of it. But that’s a young guy who they’re thinking, well, he’s a moldable lump of clay that we can sculpt into something really, really nice. Okay, at the other end of the spectrum, Joseé Altuve getting ready to turn 36 years old. Always a free swinger, but never more so. Nevermore wildly chasing pitches way out of the strike zone to where he’s in the worst 5% in Major League Baseball now and going after pitches not in the strike zone. Not as bad as Yiner Diaz who’s 9 years younger. So, uh, who do they tailor? What approach to, how well do they take to it? It all sounds good and then the bullets start flying. Yeah. I mean, it’s been two years. Hitting coaches were given a mandate last year to get this figured out. It didn’t happen. So Dana Brown, what’s he going to do? You got to try something totally different here. And that’s what they’re doing. Bring in some some new voices, some new approaches. And and from what I heard from Josh Reic on the Crush City podcast, he’s familiar with Victor Rodriguez. He’s more of just an old baseball hitting coach kind of style guy. Not a guy that’s going to break out the iPad and get into all the advanced stuff. That’s not for him. So it makes sense that this other position can can focus on that kind of stuff. And then you have some nice balance across all your different hitting coaches that can appeal to younger players and older players. And it it just makes a lot of sense to me. And at this point, why not? What What do you have to lose by trying some different guys? Cuz clearly what they’ve been doing has not been working the last couple years. And to Charlie’s point, I don’t think Altuve is going to change his approach all that much. It’s some of these other guys where you’re hoping to make a difference. So, especially with Giner Diaz, my lord. I mean, that guy swings at everything. If at least he’s still young. That whole old dogs, new tricks kind of thing. Maybe you can still find some ways to make some difference for Yiner to get him to take some more pitches. He’s still a young ball player, so I think it’s worth a shot. What do they have to lose? Like I said, yeah, I’m all for the moves and adding a layer of sophistication or counterbalance to the the older school everyday in the dugout uh hitting coach, but uh a healthy Yordon Alvarez will impact the Astros lineup, I believe, more than any sort of fank of hitting minds. Yeah, agreed. And and in theory, it sounds good. Uh this should theoretically take workload off of the hitting coaches. Hanigan can coordinate the game plan and the options and then the hitting coaches can just concentrate on mechanics and coaching in the cages. What was interesting to me was how he referenced the organization’s uh what he called a hitting bible in the minor leagues. U because in his words there was no system. Um that could be why I think in recent years we haven’t seen as much development in the way of hitting and Houston’s minor league system. And in that’s also in addition to the farm being weak. So the structure they created there, he’s essentially trying to replicate on the big league team. And what’s encouraging to me is Josh, what you talked about was he’ll counterbalance that old school approach. He’s talking about uh identifying options on the shapes and patterns of pitch shapes and pitch swings. That’s not groundbreaking per se, but he’s a biomechanics geek by all accounts. And this feels in this department in this specific role like a shift back towards the analyt analytically based strategy that became you know so pervasive under the Luna and and click era. Um so I I like that aspect of it. Final thoughts before we jump out here. Well uh this Thanksgiving week we should all be thankful for basically the last decade of Astros baseball. uh even with the tailoring off of of the last couple of seasons. Beyond that, it feels like the dog days of of pre-winter, but we’re getting there. Those winter meetings open December 8th uh in Orlando. Maybe it won’t wait until then, but what is the Astros biggest move of this off season to be? I think the hope from this standpoint is still that it’s a starting pitcher that you’re saying, okay, the odds favor getting a solid 160 innings plus out of them. Yeah. And if we take Dana Brown at his word, I don’t know why we waited so long. He’s talking about giving Altuve more rest. Hallelujah. We went over this again and again and at that age and all the at bats he was taking, playing through injuries and being ineffective. What are we doing here? We Let’s figure this out. So, I think we’re going to see more Altuve at second base, more Pettis probably at DH. The surprising thing was more Yordon in left field. Not because he can’t do it, just because you’re so worried he’s going to hurt himself, but I think they’re gonna they’re going to be a little more flexible here. Give these guys some more time off. And I think that’s the right move. But yeah, they they got to get more pitching. The starting pitcher will be key. We’ll see what they do. Verlander still a possibility. And I’ve heard some people that are down on the Verlander, you know, acquisition if it happens. I get it. He’s 43, but there is precedent. Nolan Ryan had some really good seasons in his 40s. 43 44 45 starting well into the 20s amount of games erra in the threes and twos. So it has been done before. I’m not saying Verlander is Nolan Ryan, but if you’re going to compare anybody to Nolan Ryan, I I think Verlander is pretty fair. Well, Verlander’s had a greater career all things considered than than Nolan Ryan. Oh no, strike him dead. We can discuss it at another time. Uh Roger Clemens, whatever you want to make of it. 4243 as a Houston Astro. Pretty freaking awesome. and Verlander after the All-Star break, uh, I’d be wary about him holding up and giving you the 29 starts that he did for for the Giants. Uh, they should have a little bit more money than Verlander will command, but he’d also be just a one-year deal. And let’s remember, not only are they gonna want to stay under the number, they’re gonna want to stay under it enough to have some dry powder to assess within the season when that trade deadline comes around. Because, you know, Jim Crane would really, I mean, he authorized going over it to his credit, but if you go over it a third time, it cost you more in terms of the tax that you pay and draft implications. Unless at the end of the season, the whole thing blows up and the new CBA, who knows what the rules will be. and and well maybe in 2027 we’re just twiddling our thumbs all season saying where’s baseball? 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  4. Charlie if you think Dubon was a bad offensive player wait until you meet Nick Allen.

    Dubon was never supposed to get 400+ PAs. He is supposed to be a defensive sub- pinch runner – depth guy who Espada was supposed to maximize his time on the field and minimize his at bats. They should have non- tendered Dubon and then offered him his market value in a 2 or 3 year deal.

    Nick Allen is terrible. And he hasn’t stepped out there in 7 different positions. The Astros just got considerably worse. Mathews is no answer.

  8. Tell you what I think. I think Crane is gun shy over the looming lockout. I don't think he is going to spend anything significant, with loss in revenue approaching. The Astros will be a third place team in the AL West in 2026, He'll find 2 mediocre 4.8 ERA starters and a left bat hitting .237 and call it good. I sincerely hope to be proven wrong here.

    Oh, coaching Altuve on his approach? That's just adorable.

    Jose was swinging at stuff being caught in the left batter's box, and he did it with regularity. I know he's chasing 3K hits but for heaven's sake. At this point, he's unteachable. Besides, how do you coach a future first ballot HOF player?

    Snatch Diaz up by the shirt and remind him AAA baseball is just one stoopid swing away. Bring Sanchez up to replace him. Sanchez had a few good at bats before he was sent back down. If anything will motivate Diaz, that will.

  9. Look Mathews's career is far from done, BUT.. I had a feeling when they drafted him he was a bad pick. It felt like they were going for the home town kid regardless of if he was the best player. And if memory serves he had strikeout issues in college. I could be wrong on that one. So yes if Mathews is nothing for this team in 2026 the draft pick is a failure, and hwile every gM is going to miss some first rounders.. It's not a good look that Dana's first pick is a bust considering everyone praised him for evaluating talent. Let's also ignore the fact he prefers the misleading "eye test". That's how we got Cam smith in the majors last season. Hopefully Brice can turn it around, but it shows they have a whole lot of work to do to repair the system, and I personally never thought dana was the guy for the job. We should have kept Click.

  13. Only a real baseball nerd could scapegoat a 2B who hits .270 w/ 25 HR, who took way less money to stay here and is one of the top 5 clutch players of all time. Altuve is not the problem.

  17. Nary a mention of Jake Meyers and/or Christian Walker on the trade block. Interesting. If Zach Cole wins a 25-man roster spot out of ST, then there will NOT be a platoon in RF. Why? Because righty, Cam Smith, can't afford to NOT play every day. He'll get regular ABs in AAA, which is probably for the best in the short term. That means we'd have two lefties manning RF (factoring in Sanchez). I think the front office is banking on either Cole or Sanchez to step up. I dunno about that strategy….. especially Cole. If you strike out at a very high rate in the minors, that's not a good bellwether for success in The Bigs. And Sanchez…. holy wow he was bad last year. Long story short: the OF situation is very dicey. I think our SP urgency is better solved by Arrighetti stepping up, than our OF situation being solved by Sanchez (or Melton, or Cole, or Dezenzo) stepping up. Prediction: Sanchez and his $6.5mil will be punted to the highest bidder.

  18. The swing that Charlie mentions is called the "scissor" Miguel Cabrera and Fernando Tatis are to hitters that also use this hitting technique…but with way different results than Dubon. I wish Dubon well as he is a great defender and teammate…

  20. The worst part of this show has always been Charlie and his annoying way of saying certain words 5 times louder than the other words he speaks for no apparent reason. If you emphasize a word per sentence spoken, are you emphasizing anything? Talking mess about Dubon's bat is nuts. He's a freaking utility man. He was never meant to have 400 at bats. Charlie, you're an idiot.

  21. Thank you, Charlie. I've been saying forever that Dubon is awful with his swing in sliding his back foot. Yanier does the same thing, but not as often this past year.

  24. Well Walker fell short of 30 HR's by 3. I think he will be salvageable next year and will acclimate to the AL Ballparks. Remember he crushed the ball in the NL parks last year(LA, Colorado, Pittsburgh, LA)

  26. Palillo,dale con Altuve , sé un buen analista de béisbol ,compara los números de biggio sus últimas 4temporadas con las de José,ahora podrás hablar ,los números hablan mucho: estás en presencial de un salon de la fama ,campeon bate 3veces guante de oro 2campeonatos de serie mundial uno de los grandes astros

  31. I still think when they moved Sanchez out of the 2 hole or was trying to move him around that what hurt him. He was doing good for us there for a little when he was in the 2 hole. Just my oppion on Sanchez. As far as Dubon goes and I keep telling people it a salary dumb that what it is. And people that try to argue with me about his def and he can play every position. It like we as of right now have backup for every position even catches Cesar can be the backup. Now yes we might now have like backup that can hit but neither did Dubon really. It like my brother said look at the roster and look at the depth as far as fielding go now look at the pitching rotation that it would be right now that wy we got rid of Dubon.

  32. As far as this OC thing they're doing I like the idea cause one thing my brother always pointed out and no clue if you guys agree or not. But one thing my brother pointed out seem like the team was never good at making adjustments to like a pitcher and that so hopefully he can fix that?

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