The Astros announced they’ve placed first baseman Yuli Gurriel on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to August 3, with neck stiffness. Infielders Taylor Jones and Jacob Wilson are up from Triple-A Sugar Land, while fellow infielder Robel García has been optioned out.
There’s no indication Gurriel’s facing any sort of lengthy absence, but he will miss at least the next week. It’s a bit of a disappointing development for a Houston team holding a four-game lead over the Athletics in the AL West. Jones is getting the start at first base tonight against the Twins.
Last September, the Astros re-signed Gurriel to a one-year, $7MM deal with an $8MM club option for 2022. That seemed like a curious decision at the time, given that the veteran was coming off a poor 2020 season, but the Astros have been rewarded handsomely for their faith. Gurriel has rebounded to hit a fantastic .324/.388/.490 (145 wRC+) over 417 plate appearances this season. Next year’s option now looks like a no-brainer to be exercised, and the 37-year-old figures to be an important middle-of-the-order presence for Houston as they look to make a deep postseason run.
Essential to Houston’s success, if I hear one stupid comment about garbage cans, than figure out how so many other major leaguers cheat, let’s move on.
Yuli is perhaps the clutchest Astro I’ve ever seen – an ESSENTIAL cog in their best in MLB offense over his career.
Uh oh this guys gonna cry – very cranky!
For all my years on this site, this is the most childish, and pathetic of all the posts I’ve ever seen..
Bang bang
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Bang bang – how intelligent, no one has thought of that, barring the 2nd grade
Bang bang
So intelligent. You must be fun at parties
Are we allowed to make buzzer jokes?
Fine. No mentioning of garbage cans. But did he hurt his neck laughing while continuing to make racially-insensitive facial gestures about Asians despite living in Japan for a period of time?
If you are not Japanese, it’s not your issue
If you are Japanese, man up. Sticks and stones, you know?
Ever heard the one about the 3 Irishmen leaving the bar before closing time?
“If you are not Japanese, it’s not your issue.”
This is a very uneducated and callous view.
other people don’t need YOU to take offense on their behalf, as though they are children and you’re the playground monitor.
Of course not, but You ARE the children because you can’t get past this, & you continue to post infantile remarks. Bang Bang, how playground can you get.
Terrible take Nuanced.
retire21, I actually appreciate the tone of your response, very much!
But
Explain what is terrible about it – here are both my posts on the subject
1. If you are not Japanese, it’s not your issue
If you are Japanese, man up. Sticks and stones, you know?
Ever heard the one about the 3 Irishmen leaving the bar before closing time?
2. other people don’t need YOU to take offense on their behalf, as though they are children and you’re the playground monitor.
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Have ANY of you EVER hung out or worked with NORMAL human beings of other ethnicities? They’d tell you to shut up, too, if you got all woke on their behalf. It’s really, really, gross.
And condescending.
I am of Asian decent. I take great offense to what Gurriel did. And just because I’m not Japanese doesn’t mean I can’t get offended by it. I received racial gestures like this while growing up, both in and out of school, in a predominantly white society.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ll go as far as saying you haven’t experienced any racial condemnations against you.
Well then, you have this all figured out. But just so I know I got this right, so long as what someone does or says isn’t directed at me, it’s ok. That about it?
Whether it’s ok or not doesn’t enter into it
What it ISN’T, is any of your business, probably.
Bang bang
No. It’s clear you’re an ass.
Nuanced Jimmie – please do not post your posts again. Your name calling and suppositions are not the words and comments of NORMAL people. Except those elementary folk you speak of. Oh yeah and put a sock in that man up crap. And oh yeah – bang bang!
Wtfmate? Brilliant timing brah. Absolute on. Thank you.
well, that’s not going to happen, so you’ll just need to man up and deal with words, I suppose. Or, the new normal would be to flag and ban the big bad words. That would be a truly manly course of action.
What a way to deflect and continue with more ignorant statements.
Naunced, please, stop talking. Get off the site
Nuanced.
I genrally like your takes but you can’t win this one and should drop it.
Any and all humans have the right to their feelings. It’s not for any of us to tell them when and what offends them.
By all accounts, Gurriel is a decent guy. Outside of this one instance, that unfortunately was in the heat of an emotional moment and on national TV, there has never been a single episode of racism from him.
Yuli apologized and served a suspension. Darvish forgave him. Isn’t that what America is about? Accept responsibility, pay for your mistake, and then get a second chance?
The bottom line is haters will hate.
Human beings either use their ability to love, forgive, and move on.
Or they become bitter and refuse to move past things and hold on to them, bringing it up over and over to fuel their hate.
@neurogame
“predominantly white society”
Your comment comes off as if the fact that the USA is predominantly white is the prime reason you received such treatment, as if more people being white is the only reason you were treated so badly, Maybe because they might have been those that usually made such rude gestures.
Well, listen to this.
I’m a white male who was bullied in school…from first grade to tenth grade. The people who bullied me varied in color, gender, and ethnicity. Yet, the reason I was bullied was because I was – to quote them – “strange and weird” which led to me being a introvert in that same time frame.
I was mistreated, you were mistreated – because we were different from those individuals. Your judging a persons comment, I’m judging your comment – everyone, of all ethnicitys, color, gender, opinion, etc – is judging and labeling everything and everyone, all the time. We do this because we are comparing them/it to ourselves and our own worldviews.
Racial condemnations is ultimately just as bad as gender condemnations, lifestyle condemnations, etc.
You mentioned it as if no one can understand, yet the root of why you were condemned is something many people CAN understand – even if its not ABOUT color or ethnicity. Its no special then any other form of bullying or mistreatment, because they are all in the service of individuals justifying their actions because it benefits them.
Someone making fun of what or whom they consider different are trying to justify their perspectives of other people. Its a powerplay maneuver and it is not limited to any form of mistreatment; it empowers the perpetrator and thus encourages further such actions. Skin color is just a reason among many for such ill-meaning people to treat you so unjustly.
Sorry for the rant, but I’m just tired of people talking like discrimination of the skin is different from discrimination of the person. Humanity is selfish and this sort of treatment is not limited to anyone nor better, worse, nor “special” from any other condemnation.
I don’t know if you are trying to lecture me but I do understand your perspective. Let me clear up a few things –
> I wasn’t at all suggesting that white people, even amongst a white population, don’t experience bullying.
> I also wasn’t suggesting that all parts of the US have a society/city/county that is predominantly white. I realize it varies
> I was sharing my experience at that particular school.
> I wasn’t talking as if “no one can understand.” My experience was directed towards Nuanced Jamesian who interjected that unless I was Japanese, I couldn’t understand. An absurdly myopic statement.
> And did you read any of replies by Nuanced Jamesian? You need to be lecturing him not me. I’m sticking up for myself.
This is a baseball rumor site and we all love baseball. Can’t we just get along and have a peaceful discussion?
Move on? Not until the cheaters give up their WS title.
Are the Red Sox giving up their 2018 WS title?
And Dodgers give up the 2020. We can go all day on this stuff.
It’s a shame you waste so much of your time and energy on this.
You realize you are a speck? An ant being looked down at from a skyscraper?
Nobody in MLB even knows you exist much less cares about what you say or feel.
hurt himself banging on a trash can
Again, stupid, boring & wake up, they all cheat.
Bang bang
A duplicated remark which is moronic
Buzz buzz
Bang bang
Win win.
I for one will be GLAD if these players CAN find it in their souls to admit they did a HEFTY amount of damage to the game. But alas, they REFUSE. What a WASTE. MANAGEMENT also should be ashamed.
Bravo sir.
Oh lordy, lordy, I hope retire21 will reveal all his sins, for sure he has damaged the game & he will open his soul to MLBTR,
You know what Shemp, you’re right. Everyone was doing it and besides, it didn’t help anyway.
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There is literally video of them acknowledging and apologizing for it.
“That seemed like a curious decision at the time, given that the veteran was coming off a poor 2020 season”
No, it did not. Not at all.
1. To write this, you must have little knowledge of how this guy has actually played, since day 1 of his Astros career, and
2. 2020 player stats OBVIOUSLY don’t mean much when assessing most players, and that was apparent even during the 2020 season
Anthony is an outstanding writer. Go troll on another site.
regardless of outstanding writer status, my two points remain – no trolling about it
I can’t and don’t expect these guys to have real familiarity with most players
Maybe it just came off wrong, but as an Astros fan nobody thought it was ridiculous to resign him. If his 2019 was as bad as the 2020 maybe, but last season was a joke across the board.
Hurt his eyes by poking with his finger
Jones with the 2-run homer, Astros up 2 zip
Don’t line it with a hefty bag!
Yet another childish remark. Grow up, all these redundant remarks have been posted in past threads. At least come up with something new
Bang bang
Wtfmate – you are brilliant! Did you know that all the stooges were smart.
Well, except that one.
Lighten up Francis! Time for the curley shuffle.
On here to read A’s fans calling him a cheater after Ramon’s suspension lol.
PEDs are an acceptable level of cheating.
All these grown men can’t come up with anything less embarrassing than this, how pitiful.
Curley, I’m not sure they are grown men. Some of these type comments sound like they are from elementary school.
Thanks for the input, I refuse to let this immature posting continue. I have no horse in this race other than the immature comments I hear from thread to thread, same old stupid comments. Lets grow up.
I suggest you stay away from visiting boards such as these. You obviously can’t take criticism. In this case it’s justified criticism – THEY CHEATED !!!
actually, your all caps with screamers is demonstrating his point – total nursery school stuff
I don’t care what you cheater-sypathizers say.. One thing is clear. Your team CHEATED. Heck they even got docked 1st rd draft picks for it. There’s no doubt they did this despicable act. What’s questionable is the penalty charged to your cheatin’ team, which anyone with half a brain knows is not nearly enough.
dude lol do you know NOTHING of baseball history?
You mean have I heard of any team which used electronic devices that aided batters in identifying pitches which ultimately became the one and only reason that team won the WS? No. I’m not aware of such teams. Excep the cheatin’ stros.
Bang bang
So nothing about all the players saying they weren’t alone?
Yeah I’m sure all Astros players will say something like that. Just wondering why they were the only team penalized to this degree by the league when “they weren’t alone”. in doing this.
Because Mike Fiers went to the media after being left off the WS roster. It could have happened to any of the teams.
I haven’t heard one Astro say it, but I have heard a current A’s pitcher, a current Reds player, a former major leaguer, and multiple players from the Mets/Brewers.
curly? you are such a fun guy. I mean it. Fun. You are fun. Bang Bang, to paraphase Wtf guy. Who is brilliant! curly, and fun. See?
I’m aware of other teams using a telescope to spy on signs and then relay them to the dugout who then relayed the signs to hitters with a predetermined signal, such as banging on the trash can. Sound familiar? The difference is the Astros won the world series when they did it where as the 1945 Tigers with Hank Greenberg and the 1951 Giants with Willie Mays didn’t. Not only that, but it wasn’t against the rules back then.
Next to Altuva, he’s the biggest cheater ever in the history of the MLB
You have inside info, please share
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nah, probably Whitey Ford, or Gaylord Perry, or Don Sutton, or Tom Seaver or Mantle out-did Altuve by a thousand miles, where “cheating” was concerned.
Tell that to Shoeless Joe Jackson, Arnold Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Oscar Felsch, Fred McMullin, Charles Risberg, Claude Williams, and Buck Weaver who were all banned after losing the WS in 1919.
Yeah Moe!
I actually purchased Astro merch, bought a t-shirt with the team’s star logo imposed over a star. Except it’s not a star – it’s an asterisk.
Go root for another team, and by the way, stay away from my team
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I bought a shirt with a middle finger on it and on that finger is an Astros world series ring. Underneath it says “my apologies”.
My favorite team back in 1963, was the Houston Colt 45s. Staub, John Bateman, Pete Runnels, Jim Wynn (toy cannon), Turk Farrell, Don Nottebart. The crap I have to hear now makes me sick.. Shut up & root for someone else, please.
Dierker was my “Astro Buddy” early 70s, just worshipped that guy – talked to him years later about the team that was and could have been, if Spec Richardson had not made some of the stupidest trades in mlb history
Staub Morgan & Wynn (plus Mayberry), all on base and slugging monsters
Watson, Grote, Cuellar, Dierker, Don Wilson, Doug Rader, then Cedeno & Forsch and Geronimo?
Whoa
Dierker was my favorite pitcher. 1969 301 innings pitched.. Today they say starting pitchers can’t go through the batting order a 3rd time . I remember Dierker was best once he got past the third in the batting order. Bouton wrote about him in Ball Four, he loved him. I did to.
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I made sure i drafted a bunch of these astro players on my fantasy team. I jsut feel that i’ll have an unfair advantage over the rule-abiding competition. The best player I have is this midget named Agave.
Don’t you love how few post actually deal with baseball but more with perceived slights and political feelings. Suck it up and move on, don’t take any of it personally, develop a sense of humor and have fun, life is to short to be picking apart people’s words to see if you should be offended. That’s been going on all throughout history but only now are people crying about how the mean man hurt their feelings. Seriously folks it’s ok, move on. Everyone knows the Astros cheated, got away with it and showed no remorse. There’s nothing we can do about it now and they have to live with the repercussions from the fans. Bregman should be back soon so Houston should be ok unless their young pitchers run out of gas
GIve back the WS they stole and a public apology by the parties involved. (i.e. each member of the team). then we’ll think about it.
you realize you have no say in any of this, right? and that you are very valuable to mlb beause you are an incredibly malleable consumer who is oh so easily led by the nose, right? and that the likelier course is that the Astros persist in sustained excellence, while you throw hissy fits, right?
That’s not up to you, Liam. Like Joey Votto said: move on. We know you won’t so keep stomping your feet, throw your tantrum, yell and boo, etc. Get it all out of your system.
Finally hopefully this is Robel Garcia’s last time being on the active roster. He has to be the worst player in mlb this season