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Brocail has 12 Team's interest, but does Gregg to the Cubs affect him? Astros Hot Stove 11/12/08: Half a dozen teams interested in Randy Wolf? Ben Sheets likes Houston · Astro Minor Leaguers continue to contribute in the AFL ...

I know they are superb baseball players who have been with the Astros their entire careers, and their no-trade clause makes them difficult to deal, but does that make them personas-non- trade-candidates? In this of all years, ...

But he’s taken seriously because he’s a writer for the Chronicle. But he has no hard evidence to back this up. He throws together some payroll numbers to back his argument (which some of you say aren’t even accurate.) ...

5 days ago; Astros Hot Stove 11/12/08: Half a dozen teams interested in Randy Wolf? Ben Sheets likes Houston 6 days ago; Joe Sheehan with some wise Hot Stove Season philosophy 9 days ago ...

Baseball Prospectus' Hot Stove Suggestions for the Astros. "If the Astros want to walk the walk as well as talk the talk where contention's concerned, deficit spending should be the order of the day. Assuming that McLane's still liquid, ...

A look at what the Astros talent projects to in 2009 and a little bit of analysis to prove that Ben Sheets would pay for himself in Houston.

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By HighLeveragePerformer Sheehan is a guy who tears the Astros to pieces on a fairly consistent basis. So, this bit of news on James is especially nice to hear. As far as Bogusevic is concerned...I don't really know if I'm ready to trade Hunter Pence quite yet. ...

By DyingQuail The Chronicle has learned the one-year deal is essentially done for close to the $3.75 million Hawkins earned last season. A press release announcing the deal will be sent out sometime Friday morning or early afternoon. ...

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Ed Wade indicates the Astros will be looking to deal. "To keep this club together, it would be a real challenge from a payroll standpoint ," Wade said. "We would like to keep this club together, but we might have to get creative to do ...

 TX - Nov 3, 2008 Were baseball not protected under a presumed anti-trust exemption, then market forces would probably show a sharp decrease in the demand for Astros baseball ...

Within a year's time, the Astros could shed $50 million dollars in payroll. Even if the Astros pick up Roy Oswalt's option for 2012, that year would see Carlos Lee and Oswalt's contracts expire. Regardless- our most expensive ...

Health is a question. (If he were surely sound, he'd be close to a $100-million pitcher himself.) As one GM said, "How can anyone give him a long-term deal?'') But they love him in Houston. My call: Astros, $28 million, two years." ...

Few Astros had more fan-love than Brandon Backe did after the 2005 Post Season, but the post-Tommy John surgery Brandon Backe has quickly turned that fan-love in cries for his head. What went wrong for poor Backe in 2008 -- besides his ...

Yes, the same Ruben Amaro who was a finalist along with Ed Wade for the Astros' job. In fact, Wade and Amaro are good friends, with Amaro having served as Wade's assistant in Philly. Could this mean more possible dealing between the ...

Jason Castro: Astros' First Round Pick Turns Head · MLB.com Reviews Astros' Minor Leaguers · Changing Pace: The Astros' Change Ups · Astros and the Free Agent Catching Market · Drayton McLane v. Bud Selig: Who is the Astros' 2008 Scape ...

Nearly five months after the Astros selected Jason Castro with the tenth selection the MLB Free Agent Draft, the ex-Stanford Cardinal is beginning to show the promise that he caused Ed Wade and Bobby Heck to draft him higher than most ...

MLB.com Reviews Astros' Minor Leaguers  TX - Nov 1, 2008 had this to say about Jason Castro: Castro represents one of the best Draft picks Houston has made in years. He was a no-brainer when the Astros ... Jason Castro: Astros' First Round Pick Turns Head The Crawfish Boxes all 2 news articles

Using pitch/fx, can we figure out who has the best change up in Houston? ... User Tools. Welcome Guide; New FanPost; New FanShot. Narrow; Wide. Welcome to the Crawfishboxes, the SBNation blog for the Houston Astros. ...

the paradox is that he has been probably the best owner in Astros history as well. But I blame him most for Carlos Lee and his bloated contract and for choosing to go with old & busted in picking Ed Wade as the GM to replace Purpura as ...

By DyingQuail Cecil Cooper? His first half managing blunders were just a two and half month long migraine. Mlb_a_cooper_275_medium. via assets.espn.go.com. You could almost blame everything that's wrong with this organization on him, but is it right ...

 TX - MLB has the most talented baseball players in world play under its banner. Shouldn't we expect the same from the umpiring crew? ...

 TX - Oct 27, 2008 We all know that this is a flawed and far from complete team, so what Ed Wade is allowed to do to shore up some of our flaws will dictate our mood for the 5 ...

 TX - Oct 24, 2008 If the Astros want to go to war with that, more power to Ed Wade and Drayton...their glasses must really be tremendously half full. ...

By HighLeveragePerformer Stats Recap through 10/20: Sutton leads the Arizona Fall League in OPS (1.758), BA (.591), and Total Bases (27). Chris Johnson has an OPS of .730, and a BA of .303 through 8 games. Bud Norris is the only Astro minor leaguer with more ...

By clack But did you notice the connection to Astros' history in his listing of teams with similar young starters? Yes, the 1971 Astros, with Don Wilson, Larry Dierker, and Ken Forsch. And in 1972, the Astros acquired another young (22 years ...

By DyingQuail Also, he writes off the Astros without even acknowledging what Towers did….that the Astros could match up if a third team is added to the trade. Rosenthal says that the Padres might like some of the Mets’ prospects, while conceding that ...

By DyingQuail I took players I thought would be likely candidates for the trade (the Padres have made it know they want at least two MLB ready starters) and took their WARP from Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA. I put together two packages, ...

By HighLeveragePerformer Had to. The stars were aligned in my search- in the form of Baseball America's team by team Draft Expenditures for 2008. The Astros ranked a respectable 12th, adding nearly five million dollars to their 2007 level of spending. ...

 TX - by DyingQuail on Oct 15, 2008 8:44 AM CDT As I stated in the comments section of a post the other day, I love MLB’s playoffs. Yes, they haven’t involved my ...

By Stros Bro Pretty simple question really... the Astros were not a member of the 2008 MLB playoffs and therefore most of our reasons for watching baseball was taken away from us once the season end. Obviously most of us are more fanatical about the ...

By HighLeveragePerformer For Astros fans, the game has a special twist that comes with being from a professional sports incubator like Houston. Josh Beckett of Spring HS and Scott Kazmir of Cypress Falls HS got their starts pitching in the same muggy, ...

 TX - Some of you may not have lived through this period of Astros' history; however, this era of Larry Dierker and Don Wilson was my introduction to Astros' ...

By DyingQuail Footer indicates that the Astros will be interested, but not willing to take out a second mortgage on the MMP for him. There are two possible ways to read this statement. Either Ed Wade is truly interested in Sheets and he wants him to ...

By clack Baseball Think Factory, a sabermetric oriented web site, publishes ZIPS projections before each season. The projections are slowly released one team at a time over the course of the off-season. This off-season the Astros are one of the ...

By Stros Bro Houston Astros Red-star Crawfishboxes_m The Crawfish Boxes @ Texas Rangers Red-star Lonestarball_m Lone Star Ball. Sunday, May 18, 2008, 2:05 PM CDT Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Brandon Backe vs Kason Gabbard ...

By entropic soul There are a lot of teams that seem to be clicking lately and you can count the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers among them. The Astros are arguably the hottest team in baseball right now having just won 8 of the last 10 and 11 out of ...

By Stros Bro On April 30th, I made a statement that the Astros have no All Stars on their team... It looks like Lance Berkman may have taken that to heart. Now obviously Berkman more than likely doesn't read this blog, but work with me here. ...