I don't think you want to fire your GM midseason and leave the ship rudderless for the deadline and draft. He has no contract for next year so you can let him finish out the year and not have to fire him.

Crane likes to let contracts run out and let them walk.

I don't think you want to fire Joe midseason and replace him with an interim only to replace the interim when the new GM gets in place.

So my thinking is this season is toast and a new GM and /or manager is likely not gonna turn this around so nothing happens until the season is over.

ASTROS BINGO UPDATE 5-5-26

Well I was going to say that Yainer Diaz's injury is really going to damage the jackpot on the Doom & Gloom contest, but is it really? He has 2 homers in 35 games, is he going to miss out on a lot being hurt for 2 weeks?

Instead of a much of stat updates, here are some Bingo-adjacent questions rolling through my head today.

Is Jeremy Pena dead? It's May 5th and he's got 0 homers and 1 steal.

Is Jake Meyers dead? He hasn't played since April 9. I'm not sure when the last time I heard him mentioned by anyone related to the team.

What do we do if Imai gets pounded again in the minors tonight? We once returned a Toyota that was a lemon after a couple of weeks and got our money back. I hope the Astros are going to use the same policy if necessary on their Japanese import.

Shouldn't Zach Cole immediately start playing every day? He has now played 16 MLB games and has 5 HR and 3 SB. That's an extremely small sample size, but it's still the equivalent of 51 HR and 31 SB over a season. I know Dana Brown is Brice Matthews not-so-secret admirer, but until proven otherwise or until Jake and Joey Baseball return from the morgue, get that guy out there.

How Bad is the Cubs' buyers remorse right now? Bregman has played every game and is on pace for 14 HR and 56 RBI and his OPS has dropped under .700.

Have you had your daily GOAT celebration today? Sure, Altuve is on pace to make like 700 fielding errors, but literally every time he plays he is scaling the unassailable heights of baseball's all-time greats.

• Offensive WAR for position players: Currently 83rd all time at 63.4 after passing Bernie Williams (62.3). Next up is Willie Stargell at 64.2, Biggio is 48th at 76.2 and Bagwell is 51st at 74.7. Only 18 players are above 100 for their careers.
• Games Played: 248th all-time with 2,009.
• Runs scored: Moved up to 149th on Sunday with 1,258. Now tied with Bobby Bonds. One behind Duke
• Snider.
• Hits: Up to 2,420 with one yesterday. Next three on his list are Kenny Lofton, Mark Grace, and Dwight Evans. When he gets to 2,500, he'll be up to 102nd all time.
• Total Bases: Up to 135th with 3,722. Five behind Omar Vizquel, just passed Edgar Martinez.

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I don't think you want to fire your GM midseason and leave the ship rudderless for the deadline and draft. He has no contract for next year so you can let him finish out the year and not have to fire him.

Crane likes to let contracts run out and let them walk.

I don't think you want to fire Joe midseason and replace him with an interim only to replace the interim when the new GM gets in place.

So my thinking is this season is toast and a new GM and /or manager is likely not gonna turn this around so nothing happens until the season is over.

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no. You fire Dana now and let one if the assistant GM's handle the ship, or if you are already eyeing his replacement you get that going. You fire Joe and let Lopez manage the rest of the year, and then after the season is done the new GM hires who he wants.

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Maybe, if you trust one of the assistant GMs. Do you want a rookie GM who apparently isn't coveted by other orgs to run the draft and potentially the biggest overhaul in recent history? There are no good options but I lean towards letting Dana run things and trusting his professionalism. An assistant GM could just as easily check out without upside of actually having experience.

I fear all of this is irrelevant. Dana or whoever can work out all the trades they want to move Pena or whoever but Crane probably just vetoes them anyway and we are stuck with the same team next year, just a year older.

One thing Chandler noted on a recent pod is that by this point almost all the 2026 draft prep has already been done. I don't know how many fingerprints Dana will have on the draft. The trade deadline is a much different story if he's fighting to keep his job. Although Crane has typically been the final say-so on big trades, so I don't know what will really change if a move is made at the top.

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I don't think you want to fire your GM midseason and leave the ship rudderless for the deadline and draft. He has no contract for next year so you can let him finish out the year and not have to fire him.

Crane likes to let contracts run out and let them walk.

I don't think you want to fire Joe midseason and replace him with an interim only to replace the interim when the new GM gets in place.

So my thinking is this season is toast and a new GM and /or manager is likely not gonna turn this around so nothing happens until the season is over.

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no. You fire Dana now and let one if the assistant GM's handle the ship, or if you are already eyeing his replacement you get that going. You fire Joe and let Lopez manage the rest of the year, and then after the season is done the new GM hires who he wants.

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Maybe, if you trust one of the assistant GMs. Do you want a rookie GM who apparently isn't coveted by other orgs to run the draft and potentially the biggest overhaul in recent history? There are no good options but I lean towards letting Dana run things and trusting his professionalism. An assistant GM could just as easily check out without upside of actually having experience.

I fear all of this is irrelevant. Dana or whoever can work out all the trades they want to move Pena or whoever but Crane probably just vetoes them anyway and we are stuck with the same team next year, just a year older.

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none of us are in the meetings, but if there is someone in the front office who doesn't just ride Dana's coat tail and Crane has confidence in him to hand the duties I dont care and say let him go. At this point it wouldn't hurt a damn thing.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"

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One thing Chandler noted on a recent pod is that by this point almost all the 2026 draft prep has already been done. I don't know how many fingerprints Dana will have on the draft. The trade deadline is a much different story if he's fighting to keep his job. Although Crane has typically been the final say-so on big trades, so I don't know what will really change if a move is made at the top.

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I hope Chandler is wrong because a lot can happen in the next 2 months, especially in college ball. To have your draft prep done while guys are still playing for 2 months is idiotic and speaks the broader organizational issues.

Have you sent out the pool party invites yet?

I mean in the general sense your prep should be over the last two to three years plus the current spring. You probably shouldn't swing your projections a ton over a half-season of college data.

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One thing Chandler noted on a recent pod is that by this point almost all the 2026 draft prep has already been done. I don't know how many fingerprints Dana will have on the draft. The trade deadline is a much different story if he's fighting to keep his job. Although Crane has typically been the final say-so on big trades, so I don't know what will really change if a move is made at the top.

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Just FYI - this is the norm for just about every organization.

That doesn't mean they aren't watching and taking notes and making adjustments as needed, but their big board is just about complete and the vast majority of their homework is done.

Another one.

The Marlins have designated RHP Chris Paddack for assignment.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) May 5, 2026

I feel bad for Chris. So much talent but injuries got the best of him. I know he's worked his tail off to get to where he is. Really good dude too.

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One thing Chandler noted on a recent pod is that by this point almost all the 2026 draft prep has already been done. I don't know how many fingerprints Dana will have on the draft. The trade deadline is a much different story if he's fighting to keep his job. Although Crane has typically been the final say-so on big trades, so I don't know what will really change if a move is made at the top.

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Just FYI - this is the norm for just about every organization.

That doesn't mean they aren't watching and taking notes and making adjustments as needed, but their big board is just about complete and the vast majority of their homework is done.

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I'm guessing there is nuance to Chandler's statement. There are guys who will get hurt or guys coming back from injury where you have to guess how significant the injury is long-term. There are high school guys who bloom their senior season. There's also the MLB combine. To show just how significant that is, Joseph Sullivan was a big combine performer in 2024 and we took him in the 7th round. You can't tell me his performance in the combine wasn't part of the calculus in drafting him.

Now, if you told me 80 of their top 100 will stay in their top 100 between now and the draft I could believe that. If that's your definition of almost done then ok I'm with you but to me those other 20 guys (and the order your prioritize them) is still significant.

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Is Jeremy Pena dead? It's May 5th and he's got 0 homers and 1 steal.

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Serious question...where is he? Our guys seem to take forever to come back from what we are told are relatively minor injuries. Are they just wusses who don't know how to play through a little discomfort? Or are we being lied to constantly about the severity of their injuries? I know we joke about it, but we seriously seem to have an issue with how we communicate regarding injuries.

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Is Jake Meyers dead? He hasn't played since April 9. I'm not sure when the last time I heard him mentioned by anyone related to the team.

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Same question. I don't even remember what his injury was at this point, but it seems like we should have heard something about him getting back into things by now.

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Jake has an oblique strain. I seriously doubt we see him before July.

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Is Jeremy Pena dead? It's May 5th and he's got 0 homers and 1 steal.

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Serious question...where is he? Our guys seem to take forever to come back from what we are told are relatively minor injuries. Are they just wusses who don't know how to play through a little discomfort? Or are we being lied to constantly about the severity of their injuries? I know we joke about it, but we seriously seem to have an issue with how we communicate regarding injuries.

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Is Jake Meyers dead? He hasn't played since April 9. I'm not sure when the last time I heard him mentioned by anyone related to the team.

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Same question. I don't even remember what his injury was at this point, but it seems like we should have heard something about him getting back into things by now.

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Jake has an oblique strain. I seriously doubt we see him before July.

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Is Jeremy Pena dead? It's May 5th and he's got 0 homers and 1 steal.

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Serious question...where is he? Our guys seem to take forever to come back from what we are told are relatively minor injuries. Are they just wusses who don't know how to play through a little discomfort? Or are we being lied to constantly about the severity of their injuries? I know we joke about it, but we seriously seem to have an issue with how we communicate regarding injuries.

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Is Jake Meyers dead? He hasn't played since April 9. I'm not sure when the last time I heard him mentioned by anyone related to the team.

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Jake has an oblique strain. I seriously doubt we see him before July.

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So you are saying Yainer is done for the year then? I guess you take the good with the bad...

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Is Jeremy Pena dead? It's May 5th and he's got 0 homers and 1 steal.

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Serious question...where is he? Our guys seem to take forever to come back from what we are told are relatively minor injuries. Are they just wusses who don't know how to play through a little discomfort? Or are we being lied to constantly about the severity of their injuries? I know we joke about it, but we seriously seem to have an issue with how we communicate regarding injuries.

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Is Jake Meyers dead? He hasn't played since April 9. I'm not sure when the last time I heard him mentioned by anyone related to the team.

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Jake has an oblique strain. I seriously doubt we see him before July.

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So you are saying Yainer is done for the year then? I guess you take the good with the bad...

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Walker last year was easily half a season getting healthy from his oblique strain. It's a hard baseball injury to overcome. I bet as a catcher it's even harder.

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Is Jeremy Pena dead? It's May 5th and he's got 0 homers and 1 steal.

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Serious question...where is he? Our guys seem to take forever to come back from what we are told are relatively minor injuries. Are they just wusses who don't know how to play through a little discomfort? Or are we being lied to constantly about the severity of their injuries? I know we joke about it, but we seriously seem to have an issue with how we communicate regarding injuries.

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Is Jake Meyers dead? He hasn't played since April 9. I'm not sure when the last time I heard him mentioned by anyone related to the team.

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Jake has an oblique strain. I seriously doubt we see him before July.

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Walker last year was easily half a season getting healthy from his oblique strain. It's a hard baseball injury to overcome. I bet as a catcher it's even harder.

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One can hope. At least it will keep Joe from benching Vasquez for Yainer every time he has a hot night with his bat or pinch running Yainer for him in close games.

Agreed, though we have to manage only being able to send guys up and down to the minors so often based on rule restrictions.

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regular folks get oblique strains from having to pull-start their lawnmower too many times

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How do they know? It doesn't hurt to sit at a desk in 2 days?

I said 3 weeks ago that Dana needed 3 starters. He got one in Spencer. He needed 2 more. I was convinced at the time that all the OF injuries handcuffed him. He had to use 40 man spots on low ability OFers just to put someone in CF and LF.

It doesn't help that the pen is a disaster of iffy arms.

Weiss is looking like either a bust or just a guy with horrible luck. He was pitching when Peña **** himself in Colorado. He was pitching last night when Cole and Smith did the same.

Okert getting two fast outs and then not getting out of T1.

Abreu having the worst month of his career.