Man, the Astros are fun to watch. A lot of players with pretty unique skill sets. They just need Correa up at short and a couple of reliable starters behind Keuchel and McHugh and they'll be very. very good.
A few framing runs from being the best player in baseball so far:
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2015&month=0&season1=2015&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=21,d
His xFIP is almost 5. You can argue that he has a talent for inducing weak contact. You might be right. Maybe you project something like a 0.3 difference between his ERA and DIPS (which is higher than you would ever project). His current true talent is still like 4.6 in that extremely generous case. You can't run a 4.6 ERA guy out there every 5th day.
That's not the argument. The argument is whether he can actually warrant a roster spot. To warrant a roster spot he needs to be better than replacement. A 0 WAR Goins is part of the problem.
So far in his career his at -0.4 fWAR, with well-regarded defense.
Yes. But it doesn't matter what Goins' UZR is because he's such a bad hitter and baserunner. He'd need to be like a +20 defensive shortstop to have any kind of value, but he's probably not a +20 defensive shortstop. That's Andrelton Simmons good.