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Federal Baseball (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
More photos » by Jeff Roberson - AP 4 months ago: Team USA shortstop Danny Espinosa, top, leaps into the air to catch a high throw and avoid World Team's Tyson Gillies who was safe at second for a stolen base during the third inning of the All-Star Futures baseball game at Busch Stadium on Sunday, July 12, 2009, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Browse more photos » The Topps Company,...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Astros left Koby Clemens and Drew Locke, among others, unprotected in the Rule 5 draft. That seems like a risk to me. Hopefully, Ed Wade is right when he says he put himself in the place of the other GMs and felt that they would not be players who could be kept on a ML roster for a full season. But the Astros reached that same conclusion regarding a young pitcher named Johan Santana and he was...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
More photos » by Paul Beaty - AP The Astros most important outfielder? Browse more photos » We take a break from the managerial search to look at the Astros ' 2009 outfield. The three starters in Lee, Bourn and Pence combined to be the most productive portion of the offense in a number of ways. Each totaled over 600 plate appearances and two of the three hit 25 home runs. While the Astros...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Koby Clemens struggled to find a position on the field for Lancaster in 2009. However, he knew exactly where he was supposed to be when he was in the batter's box. In his second season of High A ball, it appears that Clemens' catching days are numbered. He switched to catcher from third base at the beginning of the 2008 season. Yet, Clemens extremely hot bat have the Astros trying to find a place for...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Here are the highlights. The full transcript is below , if you'd like to read it. Note: Come to think of it, I'm not sure if there are copyright issues on the transcript since this took place on the Chronicle's website. I'll remove it to be on the safe side but leave the paraphrased highlights. Sorry guys. Ed Wade "[doesn't] want to have the oldest opening day roster again." He believes Kaz...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Many of our minds turned to the off-season weeks ago. One of the more exciting parts of the off-season is the Rule 5 draft, which is used to prevent good players from languishing on the minor league squads of teams with heavily stocked farm systems. MLBTradeRumors gives a good, understandable description of how the Rule 5 draft works, but here's a quick refresher as to what players are eligible to...
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AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
“It's always fun coming up here and seeing all the faces and old friends,” Clemens said. “And like I was saying, remembering the great memories we had those years my dad was playing here at the stadium in the playoffs and stuff. It was awesome. It's also good to see Tommy (Manzella) and Chris (Johnson) up here playing. Those are guys that I played with in the minors. It's always good...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
More photos » by Jeff Roberson - AP I feel ya, big guy. Browse more photos » Drayton McLane has addressed the Roy Oswalt comments. I can almost feel everyone's brows furrowing after reading that article. Speaking in generalities and puffery, McLane bemoaned both injuries: Let's see what the real potential of this team is. We had much greater expectations, so you have to adjust. Part of...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
The Farmstros Five for the week of August 19-25, 2009: The Top Performer : Drew Locke , 26, OF, Corpus Christi. Locke had multiple hits in six straight games going 15 for 26 with three doubles, one home run and four RBI. The Other Four : Josh Muecke , 27, LHP, Round Rock. Muecke allowed no earned runs, seven hits and struck out eight in two starts(12 2/3 IP). Koby Clemens , 22, DH/C/OF, Lancaster....
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
The Farmstros Five for the week of August 5-11, 2009: The Top Performer : Leandro Alayon , 17, RHP, DSL Astros . Alayon pitched in two games. He allowed one earned run, nine hits and struck out eight in 10 1/3 IP. The other four : Steve Brown , 22, OF, Lexington. Brown went 9 for 29 with one triple, three home runs and 10 RBI. John Frawley , 23, RHP, GCL Astros. Frawley, a 2009 undrafted free agent...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
The Farmstros Five for the week of July 29- August 4, 2009 The Top Performer : Wilton Lopez , 26, RHP, Corpus Christi. Lopez, who is on the 40-man roster, pitched seven scoreless innings allowing only four hits in his most effective start of the season. The other four : Drew Locke , 26, OF, Corpus Christi. Locke was 12 for 32 with two doubles, one triple, four home runs and 12 RBI. Koby Clemens , 22,...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
July Players of the Month, Where's Clemens? The Astros named their minor league players of the month for July. One oddity, Gaston is Lancaster's Offensive Player of month ahead of Koby Clemens. Gaston, .243 BA, 17 extra base hits and 21 RBI Clemens, .395 BA, 27 extra base hits and 39 RBI
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
The Farmstros Five for the Week of July 22-28, 2009 The Top Performers : DSL Astros pitching TRIO, which led the team to an undefeated week: Xavier Baso , 17, RHP. Baso pitched five hitless innings with six strikeouts. Baso has not allowed a hit in 15 1/3 innings. Danilo Del Rio , 18, RHP. Del Rio pitched five scoreless innings, allowing three hits and striking out four. Jose Perdomo , 17, RHP. Perdomo...
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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
The Farmstros Five for the week of July 8-14, 2009: The Top Performer: Koby Clemens ,C, Lancaster. Clemens closed out his week with a seven-RBI performance on Monday. For the week he was 11 for 25 with eight runs, one double, one triple, five home runs, and 16 RBI. The Other Four: Polin Trinidad , LHP, Round Rock. In his second AAA start, Trinidad pitched eight scoreless innings allowing four hits...
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