Berry Reassigned, Bagwell to Take Over as Astros Hitting Coach
Image by BaseballBacks via Flickr The following article was originally posted at James’ site Astros County back on July 11th! It’s not often you get an email in church that makes you go, “Whoa!” in the middle of the Lord’s Supper. But that’s exactly what happened this morning. Alyson Footer first broke this morning that […]
What Can the Astros Expect in a Trade?
Okay, so the two guys who are likely to be moved are obviously Berkman and Oswalt. Oswalt has the highest trade value, since he’s been whining over the last month or so, and is more motivated to apparently get out of dodge. Citizen Spruce asked the following question: All right, Constable, a question for you: […]
Interview with Greg Rajan of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Today we’re featuring an incredible interview with Greg Rajan, sports writer for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He has covered the team since its inception, and we’ve done these e-mail interviews with a number of people – this is, by far, the most extensive. Captip to Greg for taking the time to answer these questions thoroughly. […]
Astros Attendance By the Numbers
Image via Wikipedia So we briefly touched on this a while back at Astros County, but I thought…off day and all, we can revisit it a little more closely (editor’s note: this was written during the All Star Break). This is the issue of attendance among MLB teams, specifically the Astros, from 2008 to 2009. […]
The Future of the Astros…
Image via Wikipedia The Lancaster JetHawks are the Astros High-A farm team in the California League. For the last few years, Lancaster was the Red Sox‘ California League team. That changed for 2009 when the Astros changed their affiliation. Jeff Lasky has been with the JetHawks for what is now his 4th season. As the […]
Ahhh, the Astros
Coming off a year in which almost the entire team was overhauled and still were one big hurricane away from carrying a playoff chase into the final days of the season, the Astros were the first team this off-season to plead economic downturn, and it showed. GM Ed Wade, under orders from legendarily hands-on owner […]
