***Official Houston Astros 2025-26 Offseason Thread***

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In reply to Noble07 • 11:34a, 1/16/26
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Some on twitter have hinted at maybe this was the plan all along from the owners.

Dodgers pony up big and that's the straw that breaks the back and forces significant change.
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11:51a, 1/16/26
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The only guarantee in all this is that fans will have to pay an increase in ticket prices and experience more local blackouts
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11:53a, 1/16/26
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If we want to compete, I think it's time to go the route of super early extensions. Let's go lock up Cam. If someone like Blueballs breaks out this year, let's get him extended an extra year or three. If we trade Paredes for a pre arb outfielder, same thing. Take some risks and guarantee we have these guys primes.
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In reply to BadAggie • 12:22p, 1/16/26
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BadAggie said:
Just saying MLB might not recover from the next lockout as well as it had done previously.

It took 2 dudes roided up in '98 to start bringing people back into the fold
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In reply to Ag4life80 • 12:32p, 1/16/26
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tjack16 said:
Wonder if they'll cheer or boo him. They might be too dumb to not know he debuted after 2017

They love them some Mookie Betts, and he's admitted the Red Sox cheated in 2018. Manfred has ruined MLB for the next decade. What an ass kissing moron.

bUt tHEy DidNt cHeaT aS MucH (or some silliness)

The dodgers and Manfred are just laughing at the baseball gods at this point and hopefully pay for it (not the deferred kind).
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12:34p, 1/16/26
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In reply to EastCoastAgNc • 12:45p, 1/16/26
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that could open up a cheap caratini reunion
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In reply to iBrad • 12:46p, 1/16/26
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These salaries are insane. Really across all professional sports. It's just dumb. And now college sports are falling in line with the absurd spending.
I disagree. Teams are trying to avoid the 10 year mega deal. If you only want to give out 3 or 4 year deals you will have to give much higher annual compensation. I'd much rather pay 3-4 years for $150m than 10 years $400m
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In reply to Noble07 • 12:46p, 1/16/26
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Noble07 said:
BadAggie said:
Main thing MLB has going for it is it's the primary major pro sport active during a large chunk of the non football part of the year.

A lockout driven, let's be honest, by the Dodgers and MLB's preferential treatment of that club might be a good reset.

When the Yankees and Mets are on the sympathetic side of things with where the sport is today you know things are f'd up.

It's like the Dodgers are trying to crash the bus so there will be a reset.

If we have a lockout, at this point would the fans even care?


I think every fan base except the Dodgers' will be behind the owners. Usually the lockouts/strikes are about issues that fans either do not understand or do not care about. This one could be very different.
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12:51p, 1/16/26
Man between the NLI destroying cfb, this ridiculousness in baseball, and the Aggie baseball team pooping the bed last year, it seems time for to take up golf again.
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In reply to Farmer1906 • 12:52p, 1/16/26
Farmer1906 said:
If we want to compete, I think it's time to go the route of super early extensions. Let's go lock up Cam. If someone like Blueballs breaks out this year, let's get him extended an extra year or three. If we trade Paredes for a pre arb outfielder, same thing. Take some risks and guarantee we have these guys primes.


If we want to compete sounds like we need to have a $400,000,000 lineup
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12:54p, 1/16/26
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Not all heroes wear capes.


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In reply to Severian the Torturer • 2:10p, 1/16/26
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Severian the Torturer said:
Farmer1906 said:
If we want to compete, I think it's time to go the route of super early extensions. Let's go lock up Cam. If someone like Blueballs breaks out this year, let's get him extended an extra year or three. If we trade Paredes for a pre arb outfielder, same thing. Take some risks and guarantee we have these guys primes.


If we want to compete sounds like we need to have a $400,000,000 lineup


Sure but if we extend Tucker early, he's not a free agent yet. It's about keeping guys in their prime. I know the Dodgers look unbeatable, but they're going to age just like everyone else. Ohtani, Freeman, Betts, Snell, Glasnow, Diaz, Scott, & Muncy are all over 30. We might be singing a very different tune in 2 years.
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In reply to EastCoastAgNc • 2:12p, 1/16/26
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EastCoastAgNc said:



That's a lot of money to commit to a bad catcher who is only going to get worse with age.

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Oof those don't look great.

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2:28p, 1/16/26
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Mets with a panic buy of Bo. I don't see this working out well if he's 3B. They'd be better off trading Semien again.

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In reply to Farmer1906 • 2:30p, 1/16/26
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Farmer1906 said:
EastCoastAgNc said:



That's a lot of money to commit to a bad catcher who is only going to get worse with age.

Edit:

Oof those don't look great.



It's $15MM less than we paid Walker or Captain Lou over the same 3 years.
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In reply to Mathguy64 • 2:32p, 1/16/26
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Mathguy64 said:
Farmer1906 said:
EastCoastAgNc said:



That's a lot of money to commit to a bad catcher who is only going to get worse with age.

Edit:

Oof those don't look great.



It's $15MM less than we paid Walker or Captain Lou over the same 3 years.


We paid them when they were good. Could you imagine Abreu or Walker getting this deal after their first years in Houston?
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In reply to Farmer1906 • 2:41p, 1/16/26
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Farmer1906 said:
If we want to compete, I think it's time to go the route of super early extensions. Let's go lock up Cam. If someone like Blueballs breaks out this year, let's get him extended an extra year or three. If we trade Paredes for a pre arb outfielder, same thing. Take some risks and guarantee we have these guys primes.


I wish we had done it with Hunter and Pena after 2024
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In reply to tjack16 • 3:17p, 1/16/26
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tjack16 said:
Farmer1906 said:
If we want to compete, I think it's time to go the route of super early extensions. Let's go lock up Cam. If someone like Blueballs breaks out this year, let's get him extended an extra year or three. If we trade Paredes for a pre arb outfielder, same thing. Take some risks and guarantee we have these guys primes.


I wish we had done it with Hunter and Pena after 2024


Yup. We missed the boat.

I wanted to extend Pena after a strong start to 2024.
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In reply to Farmer1906 • 3:55p, 1/16/26
Farmer1906 said:
Severian the Torturer said:
Farmer1906 said:
If we want to compete, I think it's time to go the route of super early extensions. Let's go lock up Cam. If someone like Blueballs breaks out this year, let's get him extended an extra year or three. If we trade Paredes for a pre arb outfielder, same thing. Take some risks and guarantee we have these guys primes.


If we want to compete sounds like we need to have a $400,000,000 lineup


Sure but if we extend Tucker early, he's not a free agent yet. It's about keeping guys in their prime. I know the Dodgers look unbeatable, but they're going to age just like everyone else. Ohtani, Freeman, Betts, Snell, Glasnow, Diaz, Scott, & Muncy are all over 30. We might be singing a very different tune in 2 years.


Tucker was never going to extend, we tried to many times
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3:57p, 1/16/26
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I just shake my head at the Dodgers being 50% more than the second place team and being basically $200MM over the CBT.

Here's a way to stop that. Take every single draft pick and all of their international pool money from them. Don't let them sign anyone. And do it for every year that they are like this.
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In reply to Mathguy64 • 4:14p, 1/16/26
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Mathguy64 said:
I just shake my head at the Dodgers being 50% more than the second place team and being basically $200MM over the CBT.

Here's a way to stop that. Take every single draft pick and all of their international pool money from them. Don't let them sign anyone. And do it for every year that they are like this.


Who in MLB HQ is against the Doyers doing what they're doing?
Formerly Willy Wonka
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In reply to EastCoastAgNc • 4:19p, 1/16/26
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EastCoastAgNc said:

At this point does it just make more sense to let the Dodgers carry the payroll for the teams in the bottom half and let them be the Washington Generals to the LA Globetrotters/Dodgers?
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4:52p, 1/16/26
This run of contracts lately for the higher end free agents certainly feels like both teams and players feel like it's going to get messy after 12/1/26.
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Sucks
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4:53p, 1/16/26
Feel like I won't be surprised if Caratini signed for 3 years 66 million the way things have been going
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4:57p, 1/16/26
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The sad realization that Altuve will probably lose 2 seasons thanks to stupidity saddens me
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5:11p, 1/16/26
I will miss Caratini a lot. Once Paredes got hurt last year, he was the only guy in the lineup I didn't expect to strikeout on 3 pitches every time we had RISP
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In reply to AggiEE • 5:17p, 1/16/26
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AggiEE said:
Farmer1906 said:
Severian the Torturer said:
Farmer1906 said:
If we want to compete, I think it's time to go the route of super early extensions. Let's go lock up Cam. If someone like Blueballs breaks out this year, let's get him extended an extra year or three. If we trade Paredes for a pre arb outfielder, same thing. Take some risks and guarantee we have these guys primes.


If we want to compete sounds like we need to have a $400,000,000 lineup


Sure but if we extend Tucker early, he's not a free agent yet. It's about keeping guys in their prime. I know the Dodgers look unbeatable, but they're going to age just like everyone else. Ohtani, Freeman, Betts, Snell, Glasnow, Diaz, Scott, & Muncy are all over 30. We might be singing a very different tune in 2 years.


Tucker was never going to extend, we tried to many times


Yep he bet on himself and it worked out

Unlike keuchel
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