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  1. 6 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

    For all that have questioned Gut Wagon’s baseball knowledge throughout the year, I offer you this validation from the playoff prediction thread:

     

    Note Division series

     

    I can't wait for those NL Division series to go 7 games. 

    That will be high drama.

  2. 10 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:


    What?
    Gomez
    Gregerson
    Giles
    Come to mind off the top of the top of my head in the last 3 years... and that’s just the letter G

    I meant that Lidge was the last before Giles. 

    Others have been booed because of poor performances, but the boos with Lidge and Giles would start as soon as they were announced.

    I guess it started getting that way with Gomez too, but I have tried to block out 2016.

  3. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but I think the homefield woes will be a thing of the past once the playoffs start.

    The crowds for this season have been great, but the atmosphere for the playoffs is at an entirely different level. And as good as the Astros are at keeping things loose and taking things one game at a time, it is impossible for a defending champion to keep that championship focus over an entire season.

    Once the playoffs begin, Minute Maid will be a scary place for visiting teams.

  4. With off days on the 8th, 13th, and 16th Hinch could decide to go with a 4 man rotation with everyone getting their normal 4 or 5 days of rest.

    McCullers will be eligible to come back on the 15th, and the Astros wouldn't really need him until the 21st, which is the first time the Astros will play a fifth game in five days.

    EDIT----Damn, I spent time figuring it out, but McTaggart tweeted it out right before I posted.

  5. Marlin Brando - Vito Corleone, Terry Malloy

    Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine, Sam Spade, Captain Queeg

    Jimmy Stewart - Jefferson Smith, George Bailey, Ransom Stoddard

    William Powell - Nick Charles, Clarence Day

    Myrna Loy - Nora Charles

    Clark Gable - Rhett Butler

    Vivien Leigh - Scarlett O'Hara

    Harold Russell - Homer Parrish (The Best Years of Our Lives)

     

  6. 4 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

    Don’t forget that the Tigers are picking up $8mm/yr this year and next so the Astros are paying $20mm/yr.

    Yeah, but a team claiming him on waivers would have had to pay the full amount if they weren't able to make a deal with the Tigers.

    So it was actually a $83M decision.

  7. 19 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Well he's making $56M this year and next, plus whatever portion he was owed to complete the 2017 season. Probably not $22M as it was the end of August when the Astros got him. Not too mention he wasn't exactly pitching at the level he did after the trade through the playoffs and this year, a lot of people thought he was done.

    Gotcha. There were 29 games left last year, so the prorated amount of $28M would be $5M. So a team claiming him would have been on the hook for $61M.

    However, they would have had Verlander for the playoffs and 2 more years.

    If they had claimed Verlander, neither the Red Sox or the Yankees would have lost to the Astros in the playoffs last year.

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