The Astros have worked hard to rebuild this system; multiple trades, a strong draft, and a few guys really moving forward.
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Season Preview: Houston Astros
With the Astros joining the AL West this year, they are introducing a new look team; unfortunately for those in Houston, it resembles more of a minor league team than a major league one. Let’s look at what is in store for the Astros.
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MLB Off-Season: AL West
I’ve been working to update all of the MLB team pages. In addition to listing player movement, we also including a payroll tracker; we are showing all confirmed future payroll for each team, including money owed to players no longer with the team.
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2012 Willie Mays Award Nominees
Next up in the BBA Awards is the Willie Mays Award for the top rookie in each league.
We can nominate 5 players in each league and they will be thrown in with the rest of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance votes.
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MLB Power Rankings – 10/05/2012: Final Rankings
In the final rankings of the year, the Nationals jump back up to the top as the Rangers somewhat collapse down the stretch. The Rangers will be a wild card team after ranking first in 17 of the 22 weeks; this week they are the lowest of the year.
And the Indians finish at the bottom, which they’ve owned for the third week in a row. While the Astros have the worst record and run differential, they have hope in a solid farm system.
As like the rest of the season, these Power Rankings are composed of record, run differential, and farm system; record carries the most weight and farm system the least.
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Tooting My Own Horn – Predicting the Triple-A Affiliate Dance
When I have the ability to brag about something I predicted, I like to do so. I may not be Kreskin (for those older), Dittleman (for those who watch AGT) and I am certainly not a magician. However, when it comes to Minor League Baseball affiliates, I am pretty damn good. Continue reading
The Tragic Tale of Tyler Greene
Why does it seem like the Cardinals have an issue turning prospects into players? Going back to Alan Benes, there have been guys with potential that never reach it. Anthony Reyes, Jimmy Journell, Colby Rasmus, the list goes on (Yes, you have a Pujols or Garcia, but it seems that more often than not the big prospects end up failing).
We can now add Tyler Greene to that list. Like some of the others, I think Greene got a raw deal.
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GM Scores: Jeff Luhnow
Here is the first full GM score table; this will be the new format (at least until I get another way to improve them). I’m going to do this for all active GMs with all of their moves and the WAR they produced. This will be updated after each season. Eventually I’ll be adding scores for each GM to be able to compare them to other GMs. First up is Jeff Luhnow of the Astros.
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Looking at the Astro Prospects
Over the last month, the Astros have traded David Carpenter, J.A. Happ, Carlos Lee, Brandon Lyon, Brett Myers, and Wandy Rodriguez for a couple of veterans and a load of prospects. Let look at how the Astro’s system looks with the additions.
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The Parts Start to Move
The Houston Astros have been the first to make moves this season; it’s obvious that they are rebuilding and they need better prospects in their system.
After already trading Carlos Lee to the Marlins for 3B Matt Dominguez and RHP Rob Rassmussen, they made 2 more moves late last week.
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