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Snake Diggity

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  1. Can Powell still play catcher? Maybe he can move around and be in the lineup almost everyday playing C, 3B, 1B, and 2B (and effectively SS since O’Dowd can play SS when Powell plays 2B)? Belyeu can be the primary backup across all 3 OF spots plus DH. That gives you 11 guys playing almost every day: C Galvan 1B Thomas 2B O’Dowd SS Flores 3B Borba RF Brown CF Cummings LF Gasparino DH Storm UT Powell OF Belyeu Divvying up the departed players’ AB: Cummings replaces Kennedy (with Belyeu picking up some) Gasparino replaces Campbell (with Belyeu picking up some) Borba replaces Daly and Carlson Storm and Galvan effectively replace Guillemette (assuming Powell plays a lot of catcher)
  2. No. The big overslot spends are the 11th and 12th rounders. The pick in the 19th round was insurance in case one of Ochoa or Huezo back out of their agreement. Ochoa is already signed and I would guess his bonus is between $700k and $1.1M.
  3. Pretty much everything about Ohtani is unprecedented. Impossible to be confident about what he will bring back if traded.
  4. We didn’t have air conditioning in my home in Victoria until I was 10 (also didn’t have A/C at school until then). It was hot as fuck some days. But never like this. Back then, even on the hottest days, after playing outside all day you could always get cool enough by drinking ice water in front of a box fan. It was never like this. We have oaks that shade every side of our home and most of our roof throughout the day, and my AC has been running 14 hrs/day for the last 2 months. We set at 76 during the day and 72 at night.
  5. Singleton has no trade value. Angels are set at SS with Neto. If Ohtani is traded some team is going to have done something dramatic and I hope it’s not the Astros (I don’t think it will be). I think a competitive Astros offer would be something like Yainer Diaz, Luis Garcia, Spencer Arrighetti, and Pedro Leon. That would be a costly and likely bad deal for the Astros but it sure would be exciting.
  6. Saw a rumor that Houston is interested in James Paxton. He might be a good target for them, a rental with an injury history but one who has shown to be very effective when on/healthy; that’s the kind of pitcher they might have to roll the dice on if they don’t want to throw away their only good prospect (Gilbert).
  7. I will be shocked if baseball games aren’t broadcast on 1300 The Zone.
  8. I think the demand really is there, but the talent isn’t. I just find it impossible to believe that there aren’t enough listeners interested in UT sports to support a local sports radio station. I just think the talent has been god awful and the stations have been horribly mismanaged. I used to enjoy 1300’s lineup back in the day, when Bucky still had a good combo of humor and college football coaching insight, and they mixed in some nationally syndicated shows so that they didn’t overstretch the local talent. Would a station with the weekday time slots filled with the following programming not work? A 3 hour morning show with a guy like Erin Hogan paired with a younger/better version of Bucky A 1 hour show with Craig Way solo, updating the last week in UT/HS sports, telling stories, and hosting interviews A 1 hour mid afternoon show hosted by multiple former UT athletes, interviewing current and former UT players and coaches A 3 hour afternoon show hosted by professional comedians who are knowledgeable about local sports The rest could be filled with nationally syndicated shows or shit even non-sports shit like standup clips or music.
  9. Part of the context for the Unit trade was that Houston’s farm was utterly stacked at the time. Hidalgo, Elarton, Berkman, Miller, and Ward were all on the BA Top 100 in 1998. So even though the Astros gave up a big haul for a rental pitcher, they had the farm to be able to do it without getting themselves into trouble long term.
  10. I just realized last weekend that there’s no Astros broadcast in Austin. Wtf.
  11. Dude are you serious? Your argument against the idea that executive/ownership compensation is out of control is that because worker standards have increased by any measure, there’s no issue? Damn.
  12. Witt, LBJ, and Hurley on the weekends with Morris, Harrison, Whitehead, and others during the week is a stout starting pitching staff. Thomas, Borba, Gasparino, Powell, Cummings, Belyeu, Flores, O’Dowd, Galvan, Sanders, and Sweeney is a deep lineup. Adding in Porter Brown would be awesome too. Seems like there’s more big league potential on this roster than I’ve seen in the last 4-5 years at least.
  13. Rounds 18-20 are usually when teams will take a guy in the off chance he changes his mind about his asking price, or as insurance a overslot guy they previously chose not signing. Witt should be safe to expect back to Texas.
  14. Man we all got those, you’re probably doing a lot better than most. Like Too Short said, think positive everything else will flow. Gettin it.
  15. Swap Belyeu in for Brown, doesn’t really change much, although I am a big fan of Brown. If he’s moving on I really hope he gives pro ball a shot.
  16. Getting Witt and LBJ back is HUGE. Borba and Gasparino is big too. Been awhile since we’ve had this kind of ceiling on both sides of the ball. Guillemette and Porter Brown are the 2 unknowns at this point. 1B Thomas 3B Powell DH Borba C Guillemette* RF Brown* CF Cummings SS Flores LF Gasparino 2B O’Dowd Bench: Belyeu, Galvan, Duplantier, Sweeney, Sanders, Kennedy, Ardoin, O’Hara Im not banking on Witt though until after tomorrow. Lots of teams take guys in the 11th and offer them $1M+.
  17. Can Powell play 2B?
  18. Teams don’t usually draft someone in the top 10 rounds unless they’re really sure they can reach a deal. If they’re going to take a chance on a guy they’re not sure will sign, it’s usually on day 3 and most often in the last few round (18-20). Any Horns drafted today are very very likely gone.
  19. Ok, so what is the best possible roster that is still in play? Something like: C Galvan, Sanders IF Thomas, Powell, Flores, O’Dowd, Borba, Duplantier, O’Hara, Sweeney, Ardoin, Kennedy OF Cummings, Campbell, Brown, Belyeu, Gasparino SP Witt, Gordon, Hurley, Sthele, Harrison RP Duplantier, Boehm, Tumis, Morris, Tole, Shaw, Whitehead, others Thats a stacked roster.
  20. Erin Hogan, Craig Way, and Rob Babers should have a place in local sports radio. But otherwise everything else on The Horn was trash. I too am clueless about the economics of radio but sure seems like there’s a market for the product of 4-6 hrs/day of local sports talk radio broadcast over FM in Austin, plus obviously a huge market for FM broadcast of UT football, basketball, and baseball games.
  21. Of course you never know what deals teams have worked out, but only 4 teams took players in the 1st round who appeared to be overdrafts that would sign for well under slot to enable their team to take an overslot player later: Cleveland, Dodgers, Astros, and Angels. Look for those teams to take one of the remaining top HS guys sometime in rounds 3-11. We shouldn’t start thinking Sykora will come to Texas until he is still not drafted when round 11 is complete.
  22. The farm is below average, not terrible as those records would indicate. Theyve had to raid the AAA pitching staff more than normal, and that staff was already decimated by injuries and underperformance. Their lineup is deep enough. The AA roster is fine. Very deep lineup; Gilbert, Barber, Corona, Loperfido, Desenzo, and Daniels all have loud tools and have a chance to be good big leaguers. The pitching staff lacks ToR SP but has a couple solid BoR guys. The lower levels is really where you see the lack of depth, mostly from missing draft picks. But that should get fixed after they add 20 guys from the draft and pull up a few international studs from the complex. Depending on their deadline approach and how the rest of the draft plays out, I expect their farm to be solidly average heading into the offseason. I do wish they’d done a better job of stacking the rosters such that they’d had better records, since I do think a winning culture does have a material impact on the big league club. Wolforth is a driveline guy who was signed as a minor league fa for his ability to work with pitchers. He’s essentially the minor league Maldonado. As I noted above, the Hooks have 5-6 hitters who could be very good big leaguers. Their weakness is rotation depth after Kouba, Gordon, and Robaina.
  23. My current weather app forecast showing high of 101+ every day for the next 10 days. FML.
  24. The tandem system has been a great idea because it manages workloads and allows the org to develop more prospects as starters; JP France and Cristian Javier likely would have been developed as pure RP otherwise. I do think that it probably makes sense for AAA to be on a more normal 6 man rotation with 2-4 RP throwing multiple innings per appearance, so that their best SP prospects (and the ones who are likely to be in Houston in short order) are stretched out to 120+ ip/season prior to reaching the majors.
  25. Sykora, Witt, Gordon…pretty, pretty good weekend rotation.
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