***** Official Houston Astros 2024-2025 Offseason Thread *****

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Walk off homerun. I felt that was one of the easier ones.
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Houston 1836 said:

uhhhh, this is going to get awkward.
BOT FIGHT!!!!!

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Which one you bringing back? Outside of the Blue and gold logo, I love the old Rays logo and the Phillies baby blue unis are nice

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I never realized until today the classic Brewers logo is made up with a M & B
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If it makes you feel better, I didn't know it until you said it…
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Brewers
Im looking for Ray Finkle.... and a clean pair of shorts. Im just a very big Finkle fan. This is my Graceland, sir.


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I liked that old Diamondbacks one
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Wabs said:

IMO, MLB has no interest in maintaining competitive balance. There's no money in that. But there's huge money in the "big market" teams doing well - LAD, NYY, NYM, CHC, BOS. All of these teams are willing to spend, spend, spend.


Boston less so of late. They traded Mookie after the 2019 season, and they've dipped into the luxury tax once since then (2022 when they had a payroll 4.5 million over the then 230 million line) according to the AI response to my Google search.
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Pahdz said:

I never realized until today the classic Brewers logo is made up with a M & B
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JDUB08AG said:

Pahdz said:

I never realized until today the classic Brewers logo is made up with a M & B





This is hilarious to me yall didn't know
Im looking for Ray Finkle.... and a clean pair of shorts. Im just a very big Finkle fan. This is my Graceland, sir.


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I'm probably in the minority, but I'd rather trade for Arenado and have him on the books for only three years than sign Bregman for five or six at a much higher AAV. Of course, what we'd lose to St Louis could impact that. Option three of doing neither of those still exists, too.

And what's Caratini's status? No one needs a catcher? I don't see how we have enough ABs for him this season, especially if another bat is added.
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I love the logo it's an all time classic, just never paid that close attention.

And there is only one right answer on what classic logo to bring back, and that's Chief Wahoo
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iBrad said:

I'm probably in the minority, but I'd rather trade for Arenado and have him on the books for only three years than sign Bregman for five or six at a much higher AAV. Of course, what we'd lose to St Louis could impact that. Option three of doing neither of those still exists, too.

And what's Caratini's status? No one needs a catcher? I don't see how we have enough ABs for him this season, especially if another bat is added.

Sounds like they are taking to the Yankees, dodgers, and red Sox at this point. Ultimately he has to sign off on any trade because of his no trade clause. If he has those options available to him, he'll probably reject a trade here too.
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That Brewers logo and this Hartford Whalers logo are the best there are with incorporating letters into the design.

Let's blow y'all's minds with this one too…. The space between the whale's tail and the W here forms an H.

Iconic.
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All I do is Nguyen said:

Which one you bringing back? Outside of the Blue and gold logo, I love the old Rays logo and the Phillies baby blue unis are nice


Padres, Angels, Brewers, and (by a million times) Marlins throwbacks are all better than their current iterations imo.
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Pahdz said:

I love the logo it's an all time classic, just never paid that close attention.

And there is only one right answer on what classic logo to bring back, and that's Chief Wahoo



Best logo in sports.
Im looking for Ray Finkle.... and a clean pair of shorts. Im just a very big Finkle fan. This is my Graceland, sir.


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Farmer1906 said:

We just signed Gamel like a day or two ago

I'm aware. I'm asking for another one.
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There's really no need for two left handed OF bats that can only play the corners
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I think Arenado to the Sox is happening 15 min after Bregman signs.
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Mr.Bond said:

JDUB08AG said:

Pahdz said:

I never realized until today the classic Brewers logo is made up with a M & B





This is hilarious to me yall didn't know
Me too!

Here's a fun write-up on it: History of Brewers' ball-in-glove logo
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I'm doing good. Just trying to drum up a little more support.
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Mr.Bond said:

JDUB08AG said:

Pahdz said:

I never realized until today the classic Brewers logo is made up with a M & B





This is hilarious to me yall didn't know
Remember, we listen and don't judge.

I didn't know either.
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I remember the first time I saw the m and b. It blew my mind. It's an incredible example of a business logo.

Same for the Whalers.
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Mr.Bond said:

JDUB08AG said:

Pahdz said:

I never realized until today the classic Brewers logo is made up with a M & B





This is hilarious to me yall didn't know
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Mr.Bond said:

JDUB08AG said:

Pahdz said:

I never realized until today the classic Brewers logo is made up with a M & B





This is hilarious to me yall didn't know
Me too but then again my folks are from Wisconsin and hence went to quite a few games at County Stadium when I was a kid when we made trips up north to visit the family not smart enough to move to Texas.
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All I do is Nguyen said:

Which one you bringing back? Outside of the Blue and gold logo, I love the old Rays logo and the Phillies baby blue unis are nice


Always my favorite as a kid outside the Astros.

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Which for those not so astute is an M and an e
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Mathguy64 said:

I remember the first time I saw the m and b. It blew my mind. It's an incredible example of a business logo.

Same for the Whalers.
I had this feeing when I read in a novel that the FedEx logo had an arrow in it, which I had not noticed in my entire life.

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Another satisfying boras experience
Im looking for Ray Finkle.... and a clean pair of shorts. Im just a very big Finkle fan. This is my Graceland, sir.


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Mr.Bond said:

Another satisfying boras experience

I think Pete is going to come out okay in the end.

He's getting his 30 M a year. He will be sandwiched between or right after Lindor and Soto. He's still fairly young. I could see a monster year in 2025.

He hits the market again without the OQ and coming off a huge year. I could easily see a 4/96 or 5/115 M-type deal. If he were to get those then he's only need 2/31 or 1/12 to finish out his career to break even. It wouldn't be shocking if he ended up with more in the long run. There is just a lot more risk involved now.
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Here is another thing to factor in.

2026 the CBA is up. Owners (or a subset of them not named the Dodgers) are already hammering for a salary cap. I'm guessing we get a work stoppage and maybe a big one.

A 3 year deal with opt outs places Bregman in the rock hard place of being out of work on a stoppage in his last year. That's a very bad place.

He can't afford to get in that spot.
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Mathguy64 said:

Here is another thing to factor in.

2026 the CBA is up. Owners (or a subset of them not named the Dodgers) are already hammering for a salary cap. I'm guessing we get a work stoppage and maybe a big one.

A 3 year deal with opt outs places Bregman in the rock hard place of being out of work on a stoppage in his last year. That's a very bad place.

He can't afford to get in that spot.
This is getting so old. This will be what the 4th strike in my lifetime. Figure it out and play the game and handle the politics during the off season.
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Another strike like the 94-95 thing will really bury the sport. I hope they're smarter than that.
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This is going to be big owners who want to spend what they want and not share revenue, coupled with small owners that do not want be be forced to spend any money at all versus mid level teams that can't afford their own free agents and who don't have the massive media packages.

I think this one may get ugly.
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