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Keeping Up With the Astros Farm Hands in 2008-2009 Winter Leagues

Insomnia strikes yet again and I've read just about every Econ (I just discovered Marginal Revolution tonight...incredible) or Baseball Blog I can stomach at this point.  Downloading Open Office 3.0 for Intel based Macs went way to quickly and so I was stuck with nothing to do.  I'd even read all the updates at 538.com (an incredible presidential poll tracker powered by PECOTA inventor, Nate Silver).  HLP and I were complaining to each other earlier today (yesterday at this point) about the fact that there's no pooled resource of where Astros players are playing winter ball; so I decided to create it.

Jason Castro is currently clogging the base paths and pounding the ball.  To keep up with him through the off-season you can bookmark is player profile or look at each day's box score here (I don't know if that will force you to always look at 10/15's games, but if it does I'm sorry).  There's also some scrub High-A ball player we drafted in 2004 lingering in the league and possibly some more like him, so here's a link to the North Shore Honu team page.

The AFL has a number of our players: Chris BlazeckBrad JamesBud NorrisSergio PerezChris JohnsonMark OriDrew Sutton, and Brian Bogusevic.  The team page for the Scottsdale Scorpions can be found here and daily box scores here.  Hopefully none of these guys pulls and Pence and gets caught riding DUI.

I could find no Astros in the Caribbean League, even though I distinctly remember reading that Bourn and Backe were likely to participate.

So there you have it, hopefully you derive some benefit from this.

**UPDATE 8:39PM**

Brian Bogusevic has a blog, could be an interesting read over the winter.  Apparently he's good at Madden, but I think I could take him.

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good work...

I also appreciate the economic blog you linked.

by clack on Oct 16, 2008 8:06 AM CDT reply actions  

Farmstros is a pretty good place

to read about Astros prospects.
http://farmstros.blogspot.com/

Oh, and Bogusevic is injured, which would help explain how he’s batting 1.000.

by Only_A_Lad on Oct 16, 2008 9:58 AM CDT reply actions  

Great blog

Thanks for throwing it out there.

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by Stephen Higdon on Oct 16, 2008 11:03 AM CDT up reply actions  

Paulino

Is somebody I’d like to keep an eye on. I saw him listed in the Venezuala league on the farmstros site. Also, if Towles and Bourn play winter ball, I’d be interested in hearing if they manage to put together a decent showing.

by littlevisigoth on Oct 16, 2008 4:41 PM CDT reply actions  

Nice.

I’m counting on you to pay attention and then telling me what to think come spring, so I don’t have to.

Hi, my name is Rich and I'm an Astroholic.

by Austin Astroholic on Oct 16, 2008 9:08 PM CDT reply actions  

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