Houston Astros

I'm sensing that soon the Houston Astros pitchers will file a lawsuit against the hitters on the team for lack of run support. Roy Oswalt and Wandy Rodriguez have both pitched good games twice. Their combined record: 0-3 and a no-decision.

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Drayton McLane, the supposed billionaire owner of the Houston Astros, once again is cutting costs and letting talent go. Despite having a surprisingly successful season since being acquired by the 'Stros, lefthander Randy Wolf is gone. Presumably to save money.

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One of the surprises of the season for the Astros was the performance of lefthander Randy Wolf. Acquired from the San Diego Padres for a minor leaguer, he had a better-than-expected season for the Astros. Still, they chose not to offer him salary arbitration and have instead brought back Mike Hampton.

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No baseball the past few days due, understandably, to Hurricane Ike. Houston remains 80-67 on the season, 2.5 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in the wildcard race. It's looking like they'll play the Cubs and Sunday; reports say that the makeup games could be played in Milwaukee.

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g about them and I wasn’t either until I took a look at their roster earlier today.  The Houston Astros’ have brought in some very good players this year and brought back most of their core.  Lance Berkman, Kaz Matsui, Miguel Tejada, Ty Wigginton, Carlos Lee and Hunter Pence lead this very balanced line-up.  The key is the health of Roy Oswalt, as it always is.  This rotation is very thin but if Roy can stay healthy and be a CY Young candidate that will go a long way to helping keep things together.  Wandy Rodriguez, Brandon Backe and Woody Williams just are not going to scare people or cut it as the rest of the rotation.  This team needs to attempt to make a move to help the rotation.  The bullpen is also pretty thin but has a very good closer in Jose Valverde.  I didn’t think this team had anything but today when I looked at the roster the talent on this team surprised me.  I am just telling you, in a very bad division this team, granted they stay healthy, could make some noise.

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