Has anyone used sportsmemorabilia.com? Is it legit? Im getting a signed ktuck baseball and was wondering if it’s legit before i buy.

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I have seen people suggest trading Tucker, so nothing is too radical! Put em below! (Happy Thanksgiving!)

What's the latest on Christian Javier? We pretty much know he's going to miss a portion of 2025 at least, but have the Astros given a timetable for his recovery?

It is hardly revolutionary to say that the astros should trade for a silver slugger nominee. Sadly this analysis is partly from the trade deadline but I decided not to post it then. There is further analysis below though.

The astros have a first base problem. That's plain to anyone with eyes to see. Jon Singleton posting a .693 OPS through the first half hardly represents the offensive output that is expected from the first base position. That's where Jake burger comes in. Burger is a former first round pick that is capable of playing either first or third. He was a revelation for the marlins last year when he was traded to them. The Marlins got off to a rough start and began selling early, trading arraez to the padres. Things have only gotten worse since then with the marlins sitting at 35-65. As the Trade deadline approaches for another year the astros should consider trading for burger. Burger has been awful this year to the tune of a .635 OPS but he has been a second half player during short MLB career. On top of this there are some promising (and worrying) metrics. Burger has always been a high k player. That's no different this season. He continues to chase and whiff more than most of the league and he doesn't really walk. And yet, his bat speed is great. His defense is below average at 3b and league average at best as a 1b. But his barrel % suggests that there is still a slugger in burger. If we were to make this move Burger could play out the rest of the year at 1b as part of a right handed platoon with Singleton (his splits suggest he is much better against RHP). At the end of the season he would represent a player that could fill in for bregman partially if we don't re-sign him until we find a more permanent option. He won't be arb eligible for this season so we would have him under control until 2029. His under 1m salary for 2025 would help a team trying to roll of abreu/montero's contracts. I think because of his poor performance he is relatively attainable despite his team control left. Trading a player such as loperfido and Gordon i think represent what could be an intruiging offer to the marlins.

I stand by the above analysis. Burger had a .901 OPS in the second half of the year and it catapulted him to a silver slugger nomination (likely undeservedly so with a 104 OPS+). He finished the season with a .760 OPS. His power from the right side would have earned him 30 home runs in the Crawford boxes. Metrics such as his xBA, xSLG went back up as his results did. His barrel% that suggested that there was a slugger in burger, was correct and he delivered in the second half. His barrel% only went up in the second half along with his hard hit%. He is a top ten hitter against sliders (akin to Bobby witt jr or gunnar henderson) and a strong hitter against four seamers, but is much worse against changeups, and curveballs. He also fits our aggressive approach at the plate only seeing 3.5 per plate appearance (maybe not the best thing). He has better splits vs RHP (.799 OPS vs RHP, .678 OPS vs LHP). Either way he presents a cheap option for 2025 that can play 1st or 3rd base while we continue to figure our team configuration out. If we re-sign bregman he represents a 1b option for the team. If we don't, he represents an option to fill in at 3b in a relatively weak 3b market until we can nail down a long term solution.

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Looking to get my son on field for batting practice at minute maid park for his bday how would I go about getting tickets for this post links if possible

So the A/C here is off, doesn’t seem good for the ICEBOX

Was hoping we kept him oh well

Keep in mind, I'm doing 2015- to the present Astros. As after this list, we will do pre 2015 Astros for the same exact format. But who's a Astros started off ok and finished up good? Also who's that player?

Fire or nah?

Who started bad and ended up being good? Shoutout to U/jsting for an idea, which after this chart is done. After this, we will do all 90s and older players before this era of baseball in 2015 to the present. Disclaimer: Also, I’m going with the most upvotes from the post for this chart

Next up it has be started good and ended ok. As I’m putting players has the most upvotes. Not being biased or anything of that nature regarding the players being shown

Who’s started ok and ended up being ok overall?