As you would have heard by now, the Astros are a bunch of incompetent hacks who know nothing about baseball. They worship prospects, and as such, greedily wouldn't trade any of them to another organisation to acquire the 2017 version of 1998 Randy Johnson. Useless!
Tyler sums it up nicely:
And the Constable, as always, has a wonderful #hawttake:
The Astros' lead is now 10.5 games...
...on the team with the next best record in the American League — Thickie Don (@AstrosCounty) July 31, 2017And so while there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth last night on Astros Twitter, some much-loved analysts had some nuanced, more balanced takes:
I've fully formulated my trade deadline takes
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