One Starry Thread: The Official 2014 Houston Astros Thread

[TheNig]

Tied for 2nd in the division

 

[Charlie Broadway]

Astros took the Yankees series


Getting smashed by the Angels though

 

[THASTUNNA]

Grossman and Krauss ain't doing much. Might as well bring up Springer and Singleton to take there place. Carter is a strike out machine..

 

[THASTUNNA]

finally!!! Our Gawd has arrived!!

Astros To Promote George Springer
By Jeff Todd [April 15 at 11:25pm CST]
Top outfield prospect George Springer will join the Astros tomorrow, reports Evan Drellich of the Houston Chronicle (via Twitter). The 24-year-old entered the season as a consensus top-25 prospect.

As I recently discussed, Springer is among the game's near-MLB-ready prospects who has yet to see any MLB time. If he sticks on the big club for the remainder of the year, Springer would accrue 166 days of service -- short of a full season, but more than enough to set himself up to qualify for Super Two status. That means that the Astros will still stand to control him through the 2020 season.
Springer climbed up prospect rating boards after a monster 2013 campaign in which he hit a combined .303/.411/.600, and posted 37 home runs and 45 stolen bases, in 589 plate appearances split between Double-A and Triple-A. Entering the 2014 season, analysts rated Springer between 18th (Baseball America) to 21st (MLB.com) among all MLB prospects. The 2011 first-round pick looked well on his way to a repeat of that performance in the season's early going.
Looking ahead, Baseball America says that Springer possesses outstanding bat speed but can be beaten with offspeed offerings given his aggressive approach. With plus or better arm, speed, power, and defense tools, BA says that Springer should be a productive big leaguer even if he struggles somewhat (as many expect he will) to make contact at the MLB level.
Though he is a tall and powerful ballplayer, Springer profiles as a center fielder. But with that position occupied in Houston by offseason acquisition Dexter Fowler, Springer will presumably take over in left field for the optioned Robbie Grossman.

 

[Charlie Broadway]

Springer is a fukking BEAST!!!!! Rookie of the month. 10 homers in May, a franchise rookie record.

Singleton signs a team friendly deal and immediately gets called up. First game tonight dude hits a homer! Correa should be in AA very soon. We'll see the team drafts on Thursday. Sounds like it may be the Aiken kid from HS.

Exciting times coming up...

 

[Skilltastrophy]

Singleton yard in game one...finally that rebuild starting to show signs...it's been a long time coming...but that's going to make this resurgence over the next couple years that much more fun

all those people that left the squad during the hard times though...they all have reapply for fanship though

 

[THASTUNNA]

Astros need a steadly LF. Grossman is trash.. Hopefully Santana is almost ready to come up..

Pence trade = Cosart/Singleton/Santana and the lost one Josh Zeid.

 

[Soundwave]

The Astros are nowhere near as putrid this year as they've been these last few years

 

[dtownreppin214]

Springer is a boss. Time for the owner to spend some cash next year.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

I just came in to 1*

 

[THASTUNNA]

Fieldman needs to get going. We need a lf in a bad way. Even tho Carter k's a lot he still hits homers n drives in runs

 

[THASTUNNA]

whats up with this year's thread?

 

[Rich Spirit]

I guess we'll make this the 2015 Houston Astros thread

we're playing winning baseball and we don't have an official thread?

 

[Charlie Broadway]

I guess we'll make this the 2015 Houston Astros thread

we're playing winning baseball and we don't have an official thread?

Here's this season's but it's even more than this thread:

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/retu...town-2015-astros-thread.315301/#post-13482200

 

[Styles]

shyt is weird man. I swear a bunch of htown dudes on here but not a lot of them are sports fans or something.