Astros acquire Carlos Gomez and Mike Fiers

[mulwin444]

Astros just pinned the Angels down, whipped out their brass balls, and are currently dragging them across their nose forehead to chin.

[Mark68]

Astros, Padres Working On Significant Deal; Nothing Close At Present

By Jeff Todd [July 31, 2015 at 12:38am CDT]

12:44am: The sides are talking, but nothing is close, a source tells Evan Drellich of the Houston Chronicle (via Twitter).

12:38am: The Astros and Padres are “working on ‘something big,'” Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports tweets. It’s unclear precisely what is involved, but he notes that Tyson Ross and Craig Kimbrel have both been discussed, with San Diego potentially looking for a center field acquisition.

Ross has been discussed quite heavily as a hotly-pursued trade piece. He’s controllable for two more seasons after this one, fairly young, and relatively inexpensive. And Ross has posted rather steady, rather high-quality results for some time now. Much the same could be said of Kimbrel, who is reportedly in play.

Chris Cotillo of SB Nation tweets that Houston center fielder Jake Marisnick is “believed to be in play” in talks. The Astros obviously have a theoretical glut in the outfield after adding Carlos Gomez earlier tonight. Marisnick, who came over in a deadline deal last summer, could conceivably be put to better use as a trade piece with players like Gomez, George Springer, Colby Rasmus, a

[Guest]

AJ's probably available.

LOL at myself!

A couple years back when AJ was on the free agent market, suggesting on the forums the Angels should acquire him was a bannable offense. I actaully think we would have been wise to sign him. He would have been a valuable addition to our catching staff. I still would have booed him every game. 

[sneaky_flute]

Jake Marisnick is ****ing terrible. Preller should be fired if he accepts Marisnick for Ross or Kimbrel. 

[ettin]

Jake Marisnick is ****ing terrible. Preller should be fired if he accepts Marisnick for Ross or Kimbrel. 

 

I'm sure there's a lot more pieces involved. Marisnick by himself wouldn't make any sense at all. Marisnick and Appel would be the basis and center of a package going back to San Diego and there would be more I'm sure.

[Lou]

Gomez is batting .197 with an ops of .516 since being traded to Houston

Post-ASG = .194 BA .553 ops

[Blarg]

So you are saying the Angels really missed out on that one.

 

 

 

 

 

Good.

[tomsred]

It's harder to switch team than it seems.  New expectations, new environment, new relationships, personal issues to deal with = adjustment period (usually).

[beatlesrule]

It's harder to switch team than it seems.  New expectations, new environment, new relationships, personal issues to deal with = adjustment period (usually).

 

Plus, home plate might not be properly aligned in Houston.

[DoubleOffTheWall]

Gomez might be suckingg but our angels still havent been able to overtake the astros

[Homebrewer]

""Gomez might be suckingg but our angels still havent been able to overtake the astros ""

Not only that, what their new PCL team in Fresno is doing is scary.
The only team close to them in the entire 4 divisions is the Dodgers OKC team.

http://www.milb.com/standings/index.jsp?sid=l112

[Dick B Back]

It's harder to switch team than it seems. New expectations, new environment, new relationships, personal issues to deal with = adjustment period (usually).

Bad beer, lousy strip clubs... oh wait.

[Guest]

""Gomez might be suckingg but our angels still havent been able to overtake the astros ""

Not only that, what their new PCL team in Fresno is doing is scary.

The only team close to them in the entire 4 divisions is the Dodgers OKC team.

http://www.milb.com/standings/index.jsp?sid=l112

 

The anticipated advantage that other teams in the AL West were supposed to have in the wild card due to getting get cheap wins off of the "Lastros" seems to have ended years sooner than expected 

[ABC]

Gomez might be suckingg but our angels still havent been able to overtake the astros

 

[Hollyw00d]

Fiers.

No hitter.

[Stradling]

Big deal

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Didn't take long for that to pay off.

[beatlesrule]

So Hamels throws a no hitter and gets traded. Fiers gets traded and throws a no hitter.

[Stradling]

Before tonight he had given up 9 runs in 17 innings since being traded.