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SportsJustice (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Are you ready to be a champion? You are? I hope you know that championships are expensive, and, uh, well, the local baseball team is in kind of a bind. Drayton McLane's net worth is still above $1 billion, but it'll go down fast if he starts throwing sawbucks at these ballplayers. Oh sure, he could raise the payroll a bit and considering it an investment in the future. If the Astros got back to respectable,...
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MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Assorted rumblings from around the majors... Former MLB manager Ned Yost tells MLB.com's Alyson Footer that he thinks the Astros are just one starter away from having a quite a good rotation. (Footer agrees.) At the moment, the Astros have Roy Oswalt, Wandy Rodriguez, Brian Moehler, Bud Norris and Felipe Paulino. As Howard noted earlier, Yost is a candidate to manage the Astros next year. Former Nats...
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The ClownVision Chronicles (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Just because I didn't blog this week doesn't mean that there weren't things out there that weren't bugging me. It just means that I couldn't find the time to write about them. So I thought I would use this time to try and catch up on some of them. So...1. What is with the love fest with Brian Moehler? The guy hasn't had a really good baseball season since the turn of the century. Yet
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CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Brian Moehler and the Astros on Thursday exercised a mutual $3 million contract option for next season.
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SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
HOUSTON (AP) -- Brian Moehler and the Houston Astros on Thursday exercised a mutual $3 million contract option for next season.
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Brian Moehler and the Astros have exercised a mutual $3 million contract option for next season.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The Houston Astros decided to pick up the 2010 option on the contract of pitcher Brian Moehler on Thursday.
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The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Just a reminder, it's important. A significant amount of a pitcher's value is tied to his ability to hit, which we have a pretty good idea how to measure. Yet for some reason we leave hitting production out of our pitcher valuations. So I'll add StatCorner's pitching runs above average, hitting runs above average using a wOBA around .180 as average, and I might as well include the +/- fielding runs...
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this blog is full of crap (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Dicky J repeats what everybody else is saying about 2010: Part of what the Astros hope to build for 2010 is a club constructed around pitching, defense and the right clubhouse chemistry. Hiring the right manager is huge beyond words. Yeah, the Astros need some good pitchers who will stay healthy and pitch consistently... Brian Moehler began the season pitching on a bum knee and ended it on a bum knee....
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SportsJustice (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Brian Moehler began the season pitching on a bum knee and ended it on a bum knee. As Brian McTaggart pointed out, those four bad starts inflated his ERA. The Astros picked up his $3-million option for 2010 on Tuesday, and it's the right thing to do. In 2007-2008, he was healthy and a very decent back-of-the-rotation starter, going 12-12 with a 4.42 ERA in 26 starts. He didn't get deep enough into...
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Ballbug (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Brian McTaggart / MLB.com : Moehler to return to Astros in '10 — Houston plans to pick up its half of mutual option — HOUSTON — Astros right-hander Brian Moehler said Tuesday that he plans to return next season after being informed by general manager Ed Wade earlier in the day that the club planned on picking up its half of the mutual option for 2010.
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MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Brian McTaggart of MLB.com reports via Twitter that the Astros and Brian Moehler have each agreed to pick up their part of the pitcher's mutual option for 2010. McTaggart also tweets that the option calls for Moehler to earn $3MM next season. The 37-year-old has spent the last three years in Houston, in which he has posted an ERA of 4.87 and 5.2 K/9.
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Astros pitcher Brian Moehler had knee surgery on Monday.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Houston Astros right-hander Brian Moehler has had surgery on his right knee.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Houston Astros right-hander Brian Moehler has had surgery on his right knee.
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