I'm a very casual baseball fan, but I've always been painfully aware of the ex-Houston players who go on to continued strong careers elsewhere or blossom elsewhere. Here's my incomplete lineup: 1B: John Mayberry or Rusty Staub 2B: Joe Morgan SS: 3B: Phil Nevin RF: Kenny Lofton, Steve Finley CF: Cesar Geronimo LF: Luis Gonzalez C: Ps: Mike Cuellar, ... Who am I missing?
This is what I posted in the Rob Neyer thread: Now for the all-time Astros roster of players that had the best years of their career on other teams (criteria is that they basically started out with Houston, thus pitchers such as Robin Roberts and players such as Eddie Matthews don't qualify): Catcher - Jerry Grote 1st Base - Nate Colbert 2nd Base - Joe Morgan SS - Dennis Menke 3rd Base - Ken Caminiti Left Field - Bobby Abreu Center Field - Kenny Lofton Right Field - Rusty Staub DH - John Mayberry SP (no particular order) Jerry Reusse Mike Cueller Jack Billingham Curt Schilling Freddy Garcia RP Dave Giusti Mike Marshall Feel free to disagree
