Oswalt to leave Houston?

goes through an annual ritual of making up rumors about the Astros trading off pitchers to the Yankees. Remember in 2005, in the midst of the Astros’ terrible start, ESPN and other east coast media outlets constantly talked about how Clemens and Pettitte would be on the market to “save” the Yankees (after Randy Johnson was injured). It didn’t happen. But Shawn Chacon did save the Yankees’ pitching staff that year.

another Roy-O rumor. unfortunately in the sports “reporting” world, rumors beget rumors. even if the initial ones are completely debunked (as they were), now reporters get to say that he was “rumored to be on the trading block” in years past, which somehow is enough ammo to run with another story about him ‘possibly” getting traded this year.

we’re all guilty of paying WAY too much attention to these clowns, so they continue to get away with feeding us garbage, cause we’ll be back tomorrow for more, even if just to say what idiots they are.

that he is more than happy to be traded to another team? That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

who used to stick to the facts and was one of the few sources of insightful baseball information on the air. Now he’s just fallen into the toilet with the rest of them…....

There’s no way in hell Drayton gets rid of Oswalt.

This is my first post btw. Just joined. I’m originally from burntorangenation.com. Hopefully I’ll be posting here more often.

Still can’t believe there’s no Rockets site on SB Nation yet!

Don’t we pretty much hear this every year? Roy seems happy to be here as long as he is happy playing baseball and the Astros still want him…

Anways, Roy denies the claims.

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Who isn’t completely adverse to the idea? I recognize we’ve been playing some decent ball as of late, but our minor leagues are completely depleted, and this team’s window seems incredibly small. I went into this season expecting 88 or so losses and honestly, I’m not totally averse to taking a few lumps if it means in 3-4 years this team is a perennial contender for the next decade.

But I think he deserves the chance to play for a World Series contender, and as long as Ed Wade is our general manager, I’m highly skeptical that will ever be a reality. Why not thank him for his tremendous contributions to a golden age of Astros baseball while simultaneously filling key needs and adding organizational depth in the process?

The Astros will never get enough in return for Oswalt to justify the trade. The teams who could bid on him would be very limited. Because of his no trade clause, he could limit the teams to which he would be traded (and, according to Ortiz’s blog, he would not play in NYC) and he could demand a Santana-size contract in return for agreeing to waive the no trade clause. I thought the Twins didn’t get a good return on the Santana trade, and if that is representative of what Roy O could bring, I wouldn’t do it. Now, if a young pitcher like Lincecum, Clay Buchholz , or Joba Chamberlin, is part of the return package, I think you would have to think about it. But right now, no team is willing to trade those type of players because budding potential superstar pitchers are too valuable.