Comments on: Jed Lowrie ready to hit it big in 2012 http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/02/26/jed-lowrie-ready-to-hit-it-big-in-2012/ A Houston Astros Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Mon, 20 May 2013 02:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Stroscrow http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/02/26/jed-lowrie-ready-to-hit-it-big-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-1340630 Stroscrow Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:57:35 +0000 http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=3263#comment-1340630 I liked the Melancon trade as well, but it was definitely a risk. The inclusion of Weiland was great because he has been durable throughout his minor league career. So Melancon for a lottery ticket in Lowrie and a potential backend rotation guy was a good get. Lowrie and Weiland kind of balance out the risk/reward possibilities with that trade. With that being said, most of the "experts" don't see Lowrie playing much, and there not necessarily wrong for saying so. I myself kind of take a "until you prove me otherwise this is what I am going to believe with injuries approach", and I love being wrong. Lowrie brings about the debate of injury prone or just being unlucky. All of his injuries seem to be unrelated which would leave you to believe he's been unlucky. Basically, he was a good gamble to take. I liked the Melancon trade as well, but it was definitely a risk. The inclusion of Weiland was great because he has been durable throughout his minor league career. So Melancon for a lottery ticket in Lowrie and a potential backend rotation guy was a good get. Lowrie and Weiland kind of balance out the risk/reward possibilities with that trade.

With that being said, most of the “experts” don’t see Lowrie playing much, and there not necessarily wrong for saying so. I myself kind of take a “until you prove me otherwise this is what I am going to believe with injuries approach”, and I love being wrong. Lowrie brings about the debate of injury prone or just being unlucky. All of his injuries seem to be unrelated which would leave you to believe he’s been unlucky. Basically, he was a good gamble to take.

]]> By: BHam2421 http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/02/26/jed-lowrie-ready-to-hit-it-big-in-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-1340628 BHam2421 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:22:33 +0000 http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=3263#comment-1340628 I loved that we offered Barmes arbitration and he left. We will now get a supplemental first round pick do to that. We did the same thing with Trever Miller back in 08. He declined and we took Jordan Lyles with that pick.    As for Lowrie, I loved the deal. Melancon closed for us but in reality he is more of a Dan Wheeler type 7/8 inning guy, not a closer. To get a legit starting SS for him was great. I loved that we offered Barmes arbitration and he left. We will now get a supplemental first round pick do to that. We did the same thing with Trever Miller back in 08. He declined and we took Jordan Lyles with that pick. 
 
As for Lowrie, I loved the deal. Melancon closed for us but in reality he is more of a Dan Wheeler type 7/8 inning guy, not a closer. To get a legit starting SS for him was great.

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