Houston Let’s Celebrate Carlos Correa is Joining Astros

The moment that Houston fans have waited for, Carlos Correa is going to make his debut with the Houston Astros tomorrow night versus the Chicago White Sox. Before you start looking into plane tickets that will cost you $200 plus and a hotel that could run you $90 a night to attend tomorrow’s game. It might be better to go to Astros.com to buy tickets for Friday game. As soon as I heard the news, I immediately went I bought seats in section 419. Don’t lie, some of you reading this did too.

The news broke at 7:33 pm (CST) by Jose de Jesus Ortiz, at least he was the first one I saw Tweet it out.

Carlos Correa is coming up.
— Jose de Jesus Ortiz (@OrtizKicks) June 8, 2015

One of CTH’s writers, Brandon de Castillo posted his post that Carlos Correa would be up on Friday, and his arguments made sense. I just think that the Astros have lost four games in a row with their AL West shrinking made the Astros finally decide to make the move. Here are Jeff Luhnow’s comments about why make the move now.

"We scuffled a little bit in these last few days, and we feel like Carlos gives us," Luhnow said.
— Jose de Jesus Ortiz (@OrtizKicks) June 8, 2015

What is the Astros expecting of their young star? They think the world of him, this is why they have waited so long so they can have longer into his career. What is Luhnow expecting of Correa?

"There are no limitations of what Carlos Correa could be," Luhnow said.
— Jose de Jesus Ortiz (@OrtizKicks) June 8, 2015

Well, I could keep going and give you all of Jose de Jesus Ortiz’s Tweets, but you are not here to read what he has to say. What does this mean for the 2015 Astros?

Why Now?

At first the Astros were riding so high in the standings, that they didn’t want to fix what was not broken, like several of the Astros fans expressed while Tweeting. The time was now with the Astros creeping back to reality, back to .500, and back to the pack with the last four losses. They were going with an error prone Jonathan Villar and backup player in Marwin Gonzalez at shortstop. It worked for a while, but even a good patch will start to leak eventually.

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In today’s game, Villar had that inexcusable play where he called off

Jose Altuve

and then ran into the runner

Jose Reyes

at second base and missed the ball. The Astros ended up losing that game, with the Blue Jays striving off the extra chance the Astros gave them. You can read the recap of that game

here

From Ortiz’s article that you can find here, the decision to promote Correa was not made because of Villar’s error that cost the Astros the game today. Ortiz wrote that Luhnow even told Villar that he would stay with the team for now as a utility player who can play in the outfield and infield. The team has carried thirteen pitchers for the past month plus, so it’s a drastic move to send Jake Buchanan down to Triple-A to promote Correa, which makes me think that there is another move on the horizon.

Maybe Vincent Velasquez, who was supposed to start tonight for the Hooks, will be called up to start Wednesday in the place of Roberto Hernandez. In that case, Villar will be off the team, and Hernandez could fall into the long relief role, that is a scary thought.

Another reason for the move is the kickstart Rangers have relied on youth in Joey Gallo, Chi Chi Gonzalez, and Delino DeSheilds Jr to put pressure on the Astros. The Astros decided to fight fire with fire, so look for Velasquez soon as well.

Where will Correa Hit?

If recent history tells you where Carlos Correa might hit, it will be at the bottom of the order like they did when OF Preston Tucker made his debut with the Astros. Tucker has since moved to the number three hole. What will they do with the player they labeled a once in a lifetime player? I think they throw him into the Briar Patch, after a few games hitting in the bottom of the order. He probably ends up being the Astros second or third hitter.

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