The A-Team- Justin Verlander Is No Longer An Astro, Should We Be Sad?

We found out last night, that Justin Verlander is headed to the San Francisco Giants on a one-year deal. Are we sad about this? Or did we see this coming and we're not too upset about it? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Justin what are you gonna remember about this place?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, the teammates that have come and gone, the city,
the way the city embraced my family and myself. You know,
the ovation I got walking off the field after a
really crappy start, maybe just being my last one.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
There's a lot of moments that stick out. Obviously there's
some great ones in there as well, but you know,
just more, I think the vibe is it's something that
sticks out to me here, just in the locker room
and outside of it. That it.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Now we can pretend we're the Matt Thomas show Man.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Like I said, I think it was. Here's why I'm
like this, Like, who's sad about this?

Speaker 4 (00:54):
I know it's he didn't he didn't leave for the
first time. He isn't a good picture anymore. Yeah, he
wasn't gonna help him win. Nobody wanted him here. And
I'm not trying to be harsh to him personally, That's
not at all what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
He signed a deal with somebody else, which we all
knew was coming for the second time since being here.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yes, well the other time that was like, well he
can still pitch. I think we should probably offer him
a deal, and Jim Crane's really good friends with him,
so I know he will, and he did. And then
the Mets said, watch this, and they offered him a
deal nobody could say no to, and he smartly did
not say no to it and got all that money.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Man Max Schurzer, it was a no brainer.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
And even then, Okay, well, what are they gonna Astro's
gonna do while he's gone. They'll probably be just fine.
I mean, now this time they won't be just fine.
But he can't save them from that, and you can't
count on it he I mean, the idea that he
can't pitch well is probably the right one, but it's
not in concrete. That's why I pointed out what he

(01:52):
did when he came back the first time last year.
Perfectly capable of being a part of a rotation, perfectly
capable of your team if you're a good winning more
than more than your share of his start. So that's
what you want out of a starting pitcher in any
spot one, two, three, four or five.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
And that's what I think the Giants expect to get out.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
I mean, I don't think it's an unrealistic expectation, but
it doesn't make any sense for where the Astros are
with what they're thinking is this offseason, you're gonna trade
Kyle Tucker away and spend fifteen million a year on
Justin Verlander. You're gonna have all this dead money on
Rafael Montero and a bray you and then you're gonna

(02:29):
spend fifteen million on Justin Verlander.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
It just it didn't make any sense for them. So
we all knew this.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I think he knew that. I'm sure everybody knew that
the first time he left. That definitely some of his
thoughts about you know, what it was like here, and
you know, listening to him talk about why the Astros
were different. This is a guy who knew winning in Detroit.
He was a big winner in Detroit. He was a
World Series pitcher in Detroit. He was a cy young
winner in Detroit and came here and realized this is

(02:57):
way better what they do here at as an organization.
It's just way better what they do inside the clubhouse,
way better now. Talent is talent. I mean I'm not
saying any one season was no good there and it
is so great here, but he played with unbelievably talented
teams here the years he missed. They were so talented
that they were fine when he got hurt.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Obviously,