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The Astros outfielder that got away

No, this is not another article about J.D. Martinez. As we've covered numerous times, the decision to waive Martinez immediately before he began putting up All-Star numbers was defensible and a perfect example of, "Well...that's just baseball!"

I've been labeled a "Luhnow Truther" around here. The official Crawfish Boxes Lexicon defines that as:

noun. Somebody who unabashedly supports and defends the Astros' 2011-2015 strip-mine rebuild plan.

That's me. The description is apt. To this point, I've found most of the Astros' moves since 2011 to be reasonable* ones that were at worst harmless additions in the interest of depth.