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In five starts, he's looking more and more like a serious candidate for the starting rotation next spring by compiling a 1.73 ERA with 12 walks and 33 strikeouts in 26 innings.

The call-up of Tommy Manzella took me back to a list from the 2005 draft , in which the Astros took the shortstop out of Tulane with their third-round pick acquired from the Mets after the Carlos Beltran departure.

The Astros may have to get creative to put a contender on the field next season.

As the Astros stare up at the .500 mark, contending status having long passed them by, the same is true for their seven U.S.-based farm clubs.

Wednesday 02 Sep 2009 Round Rock Express Power Past Albuquerque Isotopes 12-7 - PCL Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 08:55AM ALBUQUERQUE - A six-run inning put the Albuquerque Isotopes back in the game early and pushed them out of it late as the 'Topes overcame a six-run deficit in the second only to crumble when the Round Rock Express matched the ...

Wow...the Miggy Era didn't last long. The first thing Drayton McLane ought to do this morning is telephone Jeff Bagwell and ask him to manage the Astros for these final 33 games.

This list was originally published December 30, 2008 . This is a REVIEW of the PRE-SEASON list for 2009, not a revision of that list.

Nothing in the dead tree edition today from the road trip, there are a few updates.

Brian Bogusevic is not Roy Hobbs, the character from The Natural who can take more than a decade off from hitting and still could reach the light tower.

The Astros have lost 14 of their last 20 games, been outscored 20-4 in their last two games and fallen 8 1/2 games behind the Central Division-leading St.

Here's the first part of a roundtable with SB Nation's other SB Nation bloggers, moderated by Sky Kalkman of Beyond the Box Score .

I have had this post sitting on my desktop for awhile and I am finally publishing it.

As the Astros play the final weekend before the All Star break, what better time to take a look at perhaps a part of the reason the organization finds itself trying to balance rebuilding with retooling and buying and selling.

A week removed from the Texas League All-Star break and a week shy of the Class AAA break, it seemed a natural time to reflect on the first half for the full season-minor league teams in the Astros' system.

I got a request earlier this week to take a look at some minor league players and how their stats would look translated to the big-time. It's always an inexact science; we saw Edwin Maysonet last month come up and nearly duplicate his Class AAA numbers.

Bud Norris' hard-luck season continued Friday night. Norris, a promising right-hander in the Houston Astros' minor-league system, gave up only two runs in six innings, but still took the loss as Oklahoma City topped visiting Round Rock 2-1. The Express lost all four games of their series against the Redhawks, scoring a total of five runs in the ...

I tuned into the CWS just in time to see Brett Eibner, sophomore from Houston now playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks, hit a homer to break up the 11-0 shutout his team was suffering.

This has become utterly ridiculous at this point. Carlos Lee has cost this team so much that it's completely inexcusable for him to dog it down the line in late game situations.