Despite his Congressional transgressions, Miguel Tejada should be the Astro starting shortstop this season. Happy Valentine’s Day to all our readers. Today’s a good day to take a break from your sports viewing and take your wife/significant other out for dinner. Maybe you’ll even g...

I had a really tough time naming this particular post. The point that I am trying to convey isn’t that the three players on this list are bad baseball players or that you shouldn’t draft them. I’m not trying to tell you that they’ll flop like the fish from that Faith No More ...

Everyone has been screaming for rankings. I wanted to wait for a while, but I’m also tired of being harassed. Remember that it’s December 30th, and this list will surely change by the time the season starts. Also note that every team has at least one catcher on this list, some teams two....

I guess you could put it like that. This was one of the worst road trips I can remember since the beginning of 2005 when the Astros lost all of their first 19 games on the road except for the one that Roy won at Cincy. Towles and Bourn were benched today, so can’t nobody blame them THIS time. ...

How can I put this nicely? This is reminding me of early 2005. I know there are plenty of fans out there who, for some reason, think that if you are a ML pitcher it means you should go out every single time and give up only a few hits, no homers and no runs AND throw a complete game of 150-200 pitch...

Brandon Backe brought his A game fer SHER. He gave up a 335′ pop-up into the Crawford Boxes, a double off the LF bullpen wall and 3 singles and a walk and 6 K over 7.1 innings. He threw 105 pitches, 72 strikes. Of those 72 strikes, 16 were looking, 16 were swinging, 19 were fouls, 15 were GO/F...

Thank goodness my Mama has a computer because I am going crazy without one of my own. At least I have a TV so I can watch the games… So anyway, Chris Sampson should have won his first game of the year. He pitched REALLY well and of the few times he left the ball up, 3 were fouled off, Michael...

Well, it IS just spring training and we ARE only talking small sample sizes, but let’s take a look…  It’s going to be interesting to see if Cooper is going to stick to his initial plan of batting Matsui second and Pence 6th, and it is going to be even MORE interesting to see where...

Well, my friends, it’s pretty unanimous - Baseball America, ESPN and Baseball Prospectus (and I would bet John Sickels) all think that the Astros farm system is the worst in the majors. Well, B-Pro has us at #29, close enough… Actually, I should say that they believe we have the fewest p...

I hope these catchers are much more interesting than those I profiled yesterday. Let me check who I’m slated to write about… [mindlessly scans nearly-eligible handwritten rankings] … Yep. Definitely more interesting. — 9. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, TEX If you’re looking for...