Astros Farm System Question #5

by farm_stros on Mar 1, 2009 6:00 AM CST in Minor League News

Especially after the 2007 draft, I am excited about starting to find out the answer to the question: "HOW GOOD IS JASON CASTRO?"

As a child, my parents and I watched numerous minor league baseball games as part of family vacations. One of the best memories about those trips would occur a few years after the fact when we'd see one of the players again in a major league uniform. This event always led to the comment, "We saw him play in Nashville a few years ago, didn't we?" or something along those lines. For example, I saw Kenny Rogers pitching for Burlington at Waterloo, Iowa, Shawon Dunston playing shortstop for Midland in Little Rock. I also saw Jose Canseco playing for the Southern League all-stars against the Houston Astros in Birmingham. As A minor league fan, there is nothing to compare with the "I saw him when" moment.

I hope we have a chance to have a "I saw him when" moment with Jason Castro in the near future. He started solidly after being drafted in the first round last June out of Stanford. Who knows maybe in 2030, when he is being inducted in Cooperstown, we'll be able to say "We saw him playing in Lancaster or Corpus Christi back in 2009, didn't we?"

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Jason Castro inducted in Cooperstown?

Whoa….let’s not get the cart before the horse.

by clack on Mar 1, 2009 8:04 AM CST reply actions

That's why I went to see the Astros/Express exhibition game

In 2007, so I could see Pence before he blew up. I’ll never forget texting HLP (we were in different seats, with our then respective GFs) and saying, “Ihope that’s just the first of many big league closers he goes yard on”, after he hit a bomb off Lidge to straight-away CF.

I think before we can answer the larger question, about Castro, we’ll need to see his full season at High-A/AA…maybe even AAA?

It is, however, exciting to have someone to hope and dream about.

The guys I’m most curious about are Seaton and Lyles. If they could ascend to the majors in 3-4 years, it could be a rotation of Wandy, Seaton, Lyles, (insert someone, maybe Oswalt if we can convince him to stay) and we’d still have Pence, Berkman, Castor/Towles, Johnson, Sutton, Bougy(?). That’s something to get excited about!! Right?

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by Stephen Higdon on Mar 1, 2009 10:48 AM CST reply actions

Be serious

this organization doesn’t go in for “young pitching.” They’ll wait ’til Lyles and Seaton are 27 to bring them up.

maybe Oswalt if we can convince him to stay

I don’t like to think about this possibility – either Oswalt actually retiring early like he says he will or going to another team. Let us never speak of this again.

by Only_A_Lad on Mar 1, 2009 1:50 PM CST up reply actions

But you're only as sick as your secrets...

by Stephen Higdon on Mar 1, 2009 3:03 PM CST up reply actions

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