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Money should be given to both to extend. In 2 years, contracts like Javy, Cobb, Flaherty, Kahnle, and Gleyber will all be off the books. The roster will likely be infused with 3-5 rookie deals (Clark, McGonigle, Briceno, Liranzo, Lee—plus Rainer should be a year or two behind them) along with the fairly cheap Keith contract. Mize, Olson, Jobe, Meadows, Wenceel, Malloy, Melton, and most of the other bullpen arms should still be easily affordable to sign or still in arbitration years. The only other key players they’ll need to probably make solid bids to keep by that point are Carpenter, Tork and Dingler—who will be sought after but are flawed so they won’t be getting top dollar offers. Plus, that’s assuming no one from the group of guys like Anderson/Campos/Hamm/etc blossom into big leaguers. If we aren’t going to spend to keep two of the best young stars the organization has ever had, then what the hell are we ever going to spend on? Not like we project to need to spend tons of money to extend a ton of our current core. McKinstry, Ibanez, Vierling, Rogers, Jones, etc all have pretty easy production to replace—especially talking about what they’ll be two+ years from now.

I love pissed off Skubal

Ryan Kreidler was claimed by the Pirates. End of an era.

That worked though

Rally Faye

Blah-erty

Matt Gage has been effective for the Giants….wasnt a deadline trade though

What other move is there? Hanifee? Give up on Montero already? I can’t imagine they’d send Melton down at this point.

Drew Sommers getting a call up.

Nobody ever mentions Indianapolis as an expansion spot. They already have an NFL and NBA franchise, along with the worlds most recognizable race track and the Big Ten Championship game. They’re a fairly well tested market as far as supporting teams and the surrounding infrastructure.

Was there ever empty air with Rod Allen?

The infield would look a lot better next year if it was Tork/Torres/McGonigle/Keith…. Anything less than that and we are grasping at straws trying to get league average production. Nothing against Lee and Anderson, but we need to see what they can do pretty soon and the longer we piddle around with Sweeney/Ibanez/McKinstry/Vierling/Kriedler/etc., the more likely it is that they all regress to below replacement level. Jung needs to put it together next time he’s up in Detroit or he’s gonna end up Manning’d. If we don’t make a deep playoff run this year, then I feel like the strategy needs to start shifting away from all of these plug and play types and start going more towards guys who can put together good at bats vs RH AND LH pitching consistently and less with the platooning. Carpenter is an obvious exception. A lot of these other guys have been good bridge guys to get us more competitive, but the next step will need to be taken by Spring 2027 at minimum with McG/Clark/Lee/Anderson/Briceno/Liranzo/etc. If we make it to ALCS and make that competitive at minimum, then you can justify running back all the Swiss Army knife players another year.

Don’t worry… it’s a Tra-MELL, not a Trammul

Is Cal Raleigh having an amazing year? yes Is he the reigning AL Pitching triple crown winner who once again has the league lead in Ks and ERA and is only behind in wins by 2? No. Gimmee Skubal

I’d prefer to imagine that with the last 4 days of scorelessness

The tariffs on trash cans are really taking a toll on the citizens of Houston

No

Petry really likes the visual of Gleyber spitting all over it

I really don’t need every commercial break on the FanDuel app to start with a cockroach belching in my face

Will Brunson. There’s a forgotten name

It does amaze me how little he gets mentioned.

McStinky!