Signing(s): Jose Abreu signs with the Astros (3 years, $60 million)

[Spear]

It isn't the 1990s anymore in terms of being able to smack 40 dingers on roids until you're 40.

It's really, really hard to stay on top of the massive velocity of today's pitchers past your mid-30s and almost nobody except Nelson Cruz has managed to be a a quality hitter past age 35 in recent years. Looks like Paul Goldschmidt might manage the same.

So far this year, Goldschmidt looks like he's as cooked as Abreu.

 

[MS]

Holy crap, what happened to this guy?

He’s 37 in a league where basically everyone spirals downhill by age 34-35 because it’s so hard to remain quick enough to hit velocity as you age.

 

[Konnan511]

Wild to think he didn't get into the league until he was 27 and is Top 10 in Active RBI leaders.

 

[MMC]

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

He's useless. One of our most horrid signings in recent memory. But the silver lining to this is that he is only about 20 minutes away from me now. I should go egg his f***ing car....But, alas, that is beneath me..........Tempting but beneath me.

 

[Mrfenn92]

He's useless. One of our most horrid signings in recent memory. But the silver lining to this is that he is only about 20 minutes away from me now. I should go egg his f***ing car....But, alas, that is beneath me..........Tempting but beneath me.

You’d get caught

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

You’d get caught

Sure would. He ain't worth my time... .....besides the time spent to post about his useless ass on the internet........Damn... You win Jose.

 

[MMC]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1801676950538490086

 

[Unholy Diver]

quite the rapid decline to once very good to great hitter, wonder if he hooks on somewhere for the minimum, maybe Miami with all the other old Cubans?

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Never forget the Astros owner let his GM go coming off a WS win and literally ran the baseball operations with Jeff Bagwell for a few months when they signed this awful contract.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Sucks this is how it ends for Abreu but signs of decline were there

It was always a risk this is how it would end and here we are

Great player who provided light during bleak era of White Sox baseball

 

[Unholy Diver]

Sucks this is how it ends for Abreu but signs of decline were there

It was always a risk this is how it would end and here we are

Great player who provided light during bleak era of White Sox baseball

yeah big hefty first basemen often don't age gracefully, Miggy managed to drag it out to get to 3k hits at least, but Abreu just fell off a cliff

 

[Cas]

yeah big hefty first basemen often don't age gracefully, Miggy managed to drag it out to get to 3k hits at least, but Abreu just fell off a cliff

Cabrera also fell off a cliff with seven years and over $200 million left and just barely managed to hold on as "barely adequate enough to not just release in disgrace."

 

[punk_o_holic]

Sucks that it ended like this. Was hoping it would work out after he went down to Florida. It wasn't like he was doing bad on purpose so didn't like the hate he was receiving. If another team gives him a chance, hoping for the best. But with that said, this had to be done weeks ago after he didn't really improve coming back from Florida.

 

[GKJ]

I feel like someone’s gonna take a chance. Don’t think it’ll work, but someone will want to.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

I feel like someone’s gonna take a chance. Don’t think it’ll work, but someone will want to.

Wouldn't shock me if Sox bring him back just to try and fill some seats thru summer

We have a long history of bringing guys back near end of career who were spent

Harold Baines is good example

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Decent amount of people think he's older than his reported age, possibly in his early to mid 40's....idk seems like conspiracy shit.

 

[Jovavic]

Decent amount of people think he's older than his reported age, possibly in his early to mid 40's....idk seems like conspiracy shit.

Cuba is well known for their dire birth record keeping

 

[Cas]

Decent amount of people think he's older than his reported age, possibly in his early to mid 40's....idk seems like conspiracy shit.

It probably is - the US and MLB require an awful lot more documentation about age than they used to.
It's also not unusual for someone to just collapse at 37.

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

Sucks that it ended like this. Was hoping it would work out after he went down to Florida. It wasn't like he was doing bad on purpose so didn't like the hate he was receiving. If another team gives him a chance, hoping for the best. But with that said, this had to be done weeks ago after he didn't really improve coming back from Florida.

Praise the lord. What a horrible contract. Worst one that we've given out in years. Lets put this nightmare behind us .

Never forget the Astros owner let his GM go coming off a WS win and literally ran the baseball operations with Jeff Bagwell for a few months when they signed this awful contract.

Bags needs to stay away from our baseball operations. No Astros fan wants him around making decisions. He's the one that complained that we relied on analytics too much. Like that has been soooooo horrible for us or something lol.

 

[punk_o_holic]

Praise the lord. What a horrible contract. Worst one that we've given out in years. Lets put this nightmare behind us .


Bags needs to stay away from our baseball operations. No Astros fan wants him around making decisions. He's the one that complained that we relied on analytics too much. Like that has been soooooo horrible for us or something lol.

And Reggie Jackson as well because he might be part of problem as well

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

And Reggie Jackson as well because he might be part of problem as well

We should've kept Click but Crane is a moron.It's too bad that Luhnow is blackballed from the league. He is the one that set us up for that amazing 7 year run ( not saying it's over yet ) .It makes me sick that Cora and Hinch got jobs again but Jeff was the one who was banished in the end .

 

[MS]

Cabrera also fell off a cliff with seven years and over $200 million left and just barely managed to hold on as "barely adequate enough to not just release in disgrace."

He had his last good year at age 33 and then was worth -2.8 WAR over his last 7 years. It honestly was one of the most drawn-out, embarrassing ends I've seen to a career in any sport. The last couple years were just painful to watch.

Decent amount of people think he's older than his reported age, possibly in his early to mid 40's....idk seems like conspiracy shit.

If his current age was correct and he was still producing, he'd basically be the oldest productive player in MLB.

People are just not grasping the extent to which careers have shortened in the last 10-15 years. Doesn't matter who you are, once you hit 35 you're basically done.