Anyone worried at all about Pence going to arbitration, in terms of long-term consequences? Hopefully he doesn't take this as an insult and pack his bags come a year from now...then again (Correct me if I'm wrong), Wandy also went to arbitration a year ago right so that clearly worked out well...probably fussing over nothing.
Since he is a super two, i believe he has two more years of arbitration available so we have him under team control for 3 more years, please correct me if im wrong. I thought i read that somewhere
You are correct. Link I think it'd be wise for Ed Wade to follow the Wandy approach with Hunter. Go year-to-year on the early arbitration years (saving a million here and there) and then offer a long-term deal in one of the next two offseasons to buy out 1 or 2 free agent years. That way's ultimately cheaper and protects the Stros against an injury or dropoff in production this season.
This isn't news other that I can't figure out why they'd bother bringing Towles back into the fold. Just let the guy go already. He's no better than AAA filler at this point. Even if one of Castro or Q went down, I still wouldn't want the guy called up.
Towles has to be the most aloof, absent-minded major league batter I have ever seen. It's like he just doesn't care or just doesn't understand where he is at. He'll never be able to hit major league pitching; minor league all-star for sure.
I can not wait for the season to start. Can't wait for Spring Training games on the radio...for heading out to MMP with family and friends.
thomas and i were talking about this last night! we definitely need to catch some games together this year. i think that one in the suite last year was the only one i attended.
Awesome. I went back in 2007 and it couldn't have been a better experience (even though the team was heading towards a mediocre season). You run into a lot of people who make the pilgramage, and even though the Astros facility is kind of "minor" league, by Spring Training standards, it has the benefit of avoiding a lot of the commercialism and huge crowds that follow some of the other teams... giving you a closer feel for the action. For instance, going to Braves or Yankees ST games is pretty much like a MLB-type experience. With the Stros, it still is very much like it was in the older days, before internet/facebook/mass media. Only downside is that Kissimmee/Orlando is somewhat of a dump of a city. There is a good Italian restaraunt (La Forschetta sp?) by the ballpark that most of the Astros players have been going to for years. Lots of cool old memorbilia there. Have fun!
Glad to see someone put this clip back up on youtube. Is it baseball season yet :grin: <iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OlrFgQa4S2E" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>
Haven't seen this posted but [ESPN Insider] Keith Law put his top 100 prospects and the only Astro that made the list was Lyles at #42. http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/insi...umnist=law_keith&page=LawTop100ProspectsIndex Another Insder article on organizational ranks... http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/insider/news/story?page=2011MLBOrgRanks
Jorge Cantu wants to play for the Astros, but they don't seem interested. 1B Cantu 2B Hall/Keppinger SS Sanchez/Barmes 3B Johnson LF Lee CF Bourn RF Pence would be so much of a fun lineup. astros are 16mm under drayton's ideal 80mil salary with just Pence left to sign through arbitration. I don't understand why they wouldn't want to add another veteran or two.
