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Astros won; draft is done
Great game last night for the Astros. Great clutch hits, great outing by Brian Moehler. The Astros are deadlocked 2-2 tonight with the Rockies as I post this, and the game is headed to extra innings. Could be a (relatively) big win for Houston if they pull it out, though, as the Pirates have already lost tonight, so the Astros are officially tied for last place as of this minute. A win would give us a commanding 0.5 game lead over Pittsburgh in the “we’re not the worst!” race.
Didn’t some guy named Strasburg pitch against the Pirates last night? Forgive me if I was more interested today in the Pittsburgh debut of Brad Lincoln. Strasburg was brilliant, no doubt, and Lincoln was less so, but Brad has Houston ties.
After two more days of rapid-fire pickin’, the 2010 MLB Draft is finally done. I talked about Houston’s three first-rounders in my last post, so here’s the rest of their list:
2) Vincent Velasquez, RHP, Garey HS (California)
3) Austin Wates, CF, Virginia Tech
4) Bobby Doran, RHP, Texas Tech
5) Ben Heath, C, Penn State
6) Adam Plutka, RHP, Glendora HS (California)
7) Roberto Pena, C, Eloisa Pascual HS (Puerto Rico)
8) Jake Buchanan, RHP, North Carolina State
9) Tommy Shirley, LHP, Xavier
10) Evan Grills, LHP, Sinclair SS (Ontario)
11) Kyle Redinger, 3B, Cedar Crest HS (Pennsylvania)
12) James Robinson, RHP, Georgia Tech
13) Davis Duren, 2B, Oklahoma State
14) Jordan Scott, CF, Riverside HS (South Carolina)
15) Jemaine Cotton, RHP, Western Oklahoma State
16) Christopher Wallace, C, Houston
17) Tyler Burnett, 3B, Middle Tennessee State
18) Joshua Magee, CF, Hoover HS (Alabama)
19) Jacoby Jones, SS, Richton HS (Mississippi)
20) Daniel Adamson, CF, Jacksonville State
21) Aaron Blair, RHP, Spring Valley HS (Nevada)
22) Zachary Dygert, C, Ball State
23) Adam Bailey, RF, Nebraska
24) Adam Champion, LHP, Arkansas-Little Rock
25) Rodney Quintero, RHP, Chipola JC
26) Alexander Sogard, LHP, North Carolina State
27) Jacke Healey, SS, Youngstown State
28) Jason Chowning, RHP, Oklahoma
29) Broughan Jantz, CF, Nevada Union HS (California)
30) Kellen Killsgaard, RF, Stanford
31) Travis Blankenship, LHP, Kansas
32) William Chrismon, RHP, Menchville HS (Virginia)
33) Michael Ness, RHP, Duke
34) Ryan Cole, RHP, St. John’s
35) Esteban Gomez, 1B, Bishop Ford Central Catholic HS (New York)
36) Ryan Halstead, RHP, Los Osos HS (California)
37) Brian Streilein, RHP, Villanova
38) Ryan Ford, 1B, Plano West HS (Texas)
39) Krishawn Holley, RHP, Mid Carolina HS (South Carolina)
40) Jeremiah Meiners, LHP, Francis Marion
41) Bryce Lance, RHP, Gulf Coast Community College
42) Paul Gerrish, RHP, Texas Christian
43) DeMarcus Henderson, SS, Wayne County HS (Mississippi)
44) Alexis Garza, RHP, McAllen HS (Texas)
45) Ian Vazquez, SS, Perkiomen School (Pennsylvania)
46) Lawrence Pardo, LHP, Christopher Columbus HS (Florida)
47) Joseph Carcone, SS, New Hartford HS (New York)
48) Thomas Pecoraro, RHP, Half Hollow West HS (New York)
49) Kenny Diaz, C, Colegio Angel David HS (Puerto Rico)
50) David Donald, CF, JL Mann HS (South Carolina)
A lot of pitchers, but that’s good. Six catchers, counting Michael Kvasnick from Round 1, which is interesting with Jason Castro knocking on the door in Round Rock. But these guys won’t be knocking on that door for a while, and many of them may be moved to other positions. Two names stand out to me in this list – one of them a catcher in Houston Cougar Christopher Wallace. He’s their first 2010 pick to sign; the kid is a lifelong Astros fan who gets the chance now to live his childhood dream, so you can’t help but cheer him on. The other name that caught my eye is BIG (6’7″) lefty Adam Champion, because he happens to be from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock… which happens to be where I work. I don’t know Adam personally, but I know that the city of Houston loves big power pitchers, so I wish him all the best and hope to see him in Astros pinstripes some day.
Grand salami, El Caballo. Astros win 6-2 in 10, and they’ve officially soared to the great heights of 5th place in the NL Central. One step at a time!
Day 1 Draft is done
So Houston snagged their three first-rounders yesterday, which included one familiar name and two major-league spelling hazards. The most notable of the trio is the first, both by virtue of his draft position and because of his bloodlines.
SP Mike Foltynewicz (RHP)
Sad day for Adam E., big day for draftees
So in Tigers news not about Armando Galarraga, Detroit designated ex-Astro Adam Everett for assignment yesterday. It’s sad in the way that Morgan Ensberg getting cut by the Rays last spring was sad – that was the end of Morgan’s playing career, and Adam is talking as if this is the end of his. Both guys were key cogs in the 2005 World Series team, and you always want to see old friends do well elsewhere if they can’t do well in Houston. Of course my immediate thought is that, if Everett is released or placed on waivers, the Astros should snatch him up; the buzz about Tommy Manzella all spring was that he “could be the next Adam Everett,” and a 33-year-old Everett couldn’t hit much worse than the 27-year-old Manzella has so far. But the reality is that Adam Everett would not have become Adam Everett if the Astros hadn’t let him go through his own growing pains as a big leaguer, and I think it’s still much too early to give up on Tommy yet. Everett would be a great insurance policy if he’s willing to accept a minor league assignment and if Tommy continues to struggle for another month or two. I’d love to see Adam back in an Astros uniform again. But if this is indeed the end of the road for him, he seems to have an admirable attitude about it. His own comments and those by Jim Leyland speak volumes about Adam’s character.
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