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• The National Leagues untouchables

  
  SportingNews.com — Authority: 795
  Ryan Fagan and Stan McNeal PITTSBURGH PIRATES: 3B Pedro Alvarez Pedro Alvarezs stats in his first professional season — .288 average, 27 homers and 95 RBIs in 126 games at Advanced A and Class AA — helped validate the franchise-altering salary the Pirates gave him in 2008. ...
  13 hours ago

• Jose Valverde May or May Not Wind Up in Houston After All

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Just a few weeks or so ago, Jose Valverde rejected the Houston Astros offer of salary arbitration and decided to become a free agent. The prospect of re-signing with Houston for one year and around $10 million just didnt appeal to Hay-Val. And as weve seen, that move seems to have backfired. By now, I figured hed ...
  1 day ago

• Odds & Ends: Kouzmanoff, Berkman, Sheets

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  Heres a stocking stuffed with news items on this Christmas Eve... MLB.coms Corey Brock says the Kevin Kouzmanoff trade talks that were swirling at the winter meetings have "cooled," and he thinks Kouzmanoff will remain a Padre unless San Diego receives an overwhelmingly good offer.  Perhaps the Padres want ...
  2 days ago

• Longtime Astros scout Stan Benjamin dies at 95

  
  SportingNews.com — Authority: 795
  HOUSTON -- Stan Benjamin, a Houston Astros scout for nearly 40 years, has died. He was 95. The team said he died early Thursday on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
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• Houston Astros Grapefruit League, 2010 Bullpen Preview

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Baseball may not be on the hearts and minds of many right now, but it will be in the next couple of months. In part one of this series of seven on the Houston Astros baseball team, we took an in-depth look at the potential pitching rotation for next year’s team. Today, we’ll be taking a closer glance at the ...
  3 days ago

• Audio of the Day: Danny Heep

  
  Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — Authority: 146
  Danny Heep is best remembered as being the first ever Designated Hitter in Mets history during the 1986 World Series. His career struggles against left handed pitching never lent him to an everyday job, but he had one of his best seasons of his career in 1986. Ironically Danny was traded to the Mets in 1983 for ...
  3 days ago

• My Aroldis Chapman Prediction

  
  SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News — Authority: 433
  Former Athletes Premier International client and current Hendricks Sports Management client, Aroldis Chapman , threw a bullpen session last Wednesday in Houston. Fifteen teams attended. The teams in attendance were the Astros, Marlins, Angels, Nationals, Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, Pirates, Reds, Royals, Phillies, ...
  3 days ago

• A Change Can Do You Good

  
  The ClownVision Chronicles — Authority: 136
  Richard Justice has some more of his standard nonsense over at his blog, but this time, I just couldnt let it go without addressing it. Because, as Justice says, we might regret it if Drayton sells the team. We might never get a better owner than Drayton.You know what? Hes right. We might never get a better owner. ...
  3 days ago

• Where Will Jose Valverde End Up?

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 744
  MLB.coms Brian McTaggart writes in his latest piece about Jose Valverde s struggle to find a multi-year contract, or even a one-year deal equivalent to the $10MM salary he was likely to receive had he accepted Houstons offer of arbitration. McTaggart describes Valverde, 30, as the latest in a tradition of ...
  5 days ago

• Astrodome, Baseball, Busch Commercials: Cherished Childhood Memories

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Boy do I miss my childhood days of being paraded into the good ole Astrodome to watch the Houston Astros. Walking up those long, wide ramps and your feet sticking to the ground with every step; the smell of beer, popcorn, and hotdogs; the long lines to the bathroom to stand over a urinal that looked more like ...
  6 days ago

• Injury Derails Rangers’ Deal for Lowell

  
  KTBB Sports Blog — Authority: 138
  The proposed trade between the Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox involving Mike Lowell is off, according to a source. The reason: Lowell has a torn radial collateral ligament in his right thumb and will have surgery after Christmas. The recovery time for the surgery is six to eight weeks. The diagnosis was made in ...
  6 days ago

• Reds give Rolen $13 million extension (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - Scott Rolen agreed Saturday to a two-year contract extension with the Cincinnati Reds that guarantees him an additional $13 million while converting almost half of his 2010 salary to a deferred signing bonus.
  6 days ago

• Reds give Rolen $13 million extension (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - Scott Rolen agreed Saturday to a two-year contract extension with the Cincinnati Reds that guarantees him an additional $13 million while converting almost half of his 2010 salary to a deferred signing bonus.
  6 days ago

• Mariners Up, Astros Down: The Best and Worst GMs Of the Offseason

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  The offseason is not even close to over, yet two general managers already stand out, albeit for vastly different reasons.  Seattle Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik has, in under two years, turned the Mariners from the punchline in a Bill Bavasi joke to a legitimate contender for the AL West.  Meanwhile, Houston Astros GM ...
  6 days ago

• Heres a Thought: ...And 2009s Luckiest Pitcher Award Goes To...

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  If youre a regular reader of "Heres a Thought," you probably know that I dont like to use ERA very much. Instead, I prefer FIP, tRA, and xFIP when discussing pitchers. The statistics are just luck-adjusted ERAs, so they slot in nicely to ERAs "traditional" statistical role. Thus, an easy way to tell how "lucky" a ...
  6 days ago

• Advent Calendar of Hotness: Day 19

  
  Ladies... — Authority: 429
  Yeah, Roy Oswalt. Sorry. (Not.)
  1 week ago

• Lowell to Texas for Meeting, Physical

  
  KTBB Sports Blog — Authority: 138
  Mike Lowell will fly to Texas on Saturday after a meeting late this week with a hand specialist in Arizona, according to a major league executive familiar with Lowell’s situation. Lowell then will meet with the Rangers’ front office and medical staff and will take a physical, the executive said. Assuming the ...
  1 week ago

• Once Again, With Feeling

  
  The ClownVision Chronicles — Authority: 136
  The Houston Chronicle, in a desperate for new traffic, is joining up with some blogs and displaying their contents. One such is Bleacher Report. And its an okay blog. But I just ask that it get its facts straight.Like Richard Justice, the author of this post gushes about the greatness of Drayton McLane. And as example ...
  1 week ago

• Baseball Prospect Report: Jason Castro

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  In an offseason where mediocre catchers have received some fairly sizable contracts (Jason Kendall and Ivan Rodriguez, just to name a few), there are some teams who could be looking from within to fill their voids.  While everyone’s mind instantly jumps to Buster Posey, the Astros have their own catching prospect ...
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• One For The Memories

  
  The ClownVision Chronicles — Authority: 136
  Im doing some work on some mothership posts, and in one of them, Im doing a Greatest Hits/Lows of the Astros for the decade just ended. And of course, as much as the Astros might want us to forget, but this is the guy who threw out the first pitch to the very first regular season game at then Enron Field.Im sure we ...
  1 week ago

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