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Brian McTaggart reports via Twitter that the Astros have signed a minor league free agent coming out of the Yankees system. Jose Valdez (27, RHP) pitched 19.1 innings at their AAA club this year, the proud owner of a 4.19 ERA, 18 strikeouts, and 10 walks. In past seasons, he's ...
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Honestly, I was excited to read this . I was excited to see where the experts at Baseball America ranked our fledging group of farmhands ...
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Keith Law defends his Cy Young vote to a St. Louis ESPN Radio affiliate
I don't know if anyone has heard this yet, but it is brilliant. You can almost feel the desperation in the hosts voices as their arguments get torn to shreds and they have nothing but anger to grasp at. The best part ...
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by Alan Diaz - AP
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On the eve of full fledged free agency, the Astros have made an offer to LaTroy Hawkins . I sincerely hope that Hawk is back in the fold next ...
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by Charles Krupa - AP
New Astros' manager Brad Mills was Terry Francona's bench coach.
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We all know that one of Brad Mills ' selling points ...
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by David J. Phillip - AP
Will the Hawk be back in Houston?
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We already covered the basics of the reliever market with Jose Valverde 's profile, so I thought the most ...
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by Pat Sullivan - AP
From the sound of it, Wright isn't doing too much of this in the DWL. Hopefully that translates to MLB in 2010.
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On the ...
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by Pat Sullivan - AP
Just give us a sign, Ed.
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I just got finished reading this piece by Brian McTaggart. I read it; I ...
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by David Zalubowski - AP
That's no whiffle bat Bourn is swinging...
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Let's open with a rather long note from Buster Olney's column on Michael Bourn . Since it's protected ...
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crawfishboxes.com - 17 hours ago
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Browse more photos » Why are we fretting so
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The Astros most impressive performances in 2009: The ...
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We previously have mentioned some Quad-A type players who would be worth a a gamble at the 3d base position. Dave Cameron has an article at Fangraphs which picks out a few minor league free agents of interest. I particularly like Reuben Gotay, who might be a nice gamble for the 3d ...
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by Alex Brandon - AP
The market for Tejada will be tough to ascertain.
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Lets to talk about since the last time we looked at the free agency market. In this profile of ...
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by Henny Ray Abrams - AP
Not the guy you're expecting to see with a post about "most impressive batting performance."
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This idea struck ...
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Astros Hitter Projections by CHONE
CHONE is another projection system, and right now only the 2010 hitter projections are released. The CHONE projections are a good deal more pessimistic for the Astros than Bill James' projections. In fact, for Astros' fans they are downright depressing: ...
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We haven't spent a lot of time talking about Figgins here, probably under the assumption that the Astros won't be able to pick him up on the free agent market. But what if they did? He likely won't be much more expensive than Miguel Tejada . What will create more demand is his ...
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by Bob Levey - AP
Since it's pseudo-kind-of Christmas season, I just think of things like: Grinch and Scrooge.
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It's Saturday, things have ...
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The Astros as we all know are in a bit of a bind. Management wants to reduce payroll and presumingly go with a younger lineup, the problem with this is that the Astros have one of the worst farm systems in baseball, and the weakest part of the system lies at the upper levels. So ...
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crawfishboxes.com - 33 hours ago
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While looking at stats to see where the
Astros have room for improvement in 2010, I noticed
something odd. Kazuo Matsui has bizarre splits (insert tasteless anal fissure joke here). For his career, Kazuo has basically hit right-handed ...
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Kazuo Matsui's Weird Splits
by Kathy Willens - AP
What a silly picture, Derek Jeter...
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In 1992, the Houston Astros selected Phil Nevin first overall in the draft. Astros area scout Hal Newhouser ...
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HLP's interview with SimonOnSports
Simon, from the appropriately named sports blog, SimonOnSports interviewed me for a post on the off season outlook for our Astros.
Thanks to Simon for giving us this opportunity. The questions were well thought out and fun to answer.
