Sunday Morning Astros, etc. Round Up

Like this line from Geary:

“I would rather listen to hitters up here than go down and face hitters who are greedy and want to absolutely crush you,” said Geary, who said he feels healthy enough to pitch now.

He also talks about how he likes to pitch to teammates like Jason Michaels, presumably because they won’t try to crush him. Uh, the way that Michaels has been hitting lately, I can see why Geary would rather pitch to him. And he doesn’t seem to be able to crush anybody right now.

Most of Anthony Andro’s article (wow, is that his real name?) doesn’t add anything new to the conversation. It’s the same narrative we hear everywhere else: the major league club is old and their farm system is the worst in baseball.

Where he does try to add to the conversation and go a little more in depth, he whiffs, and big-time. He points to our history of poor drafting and bad luck with players not developing. But then he fails to recognize that the ballclub has done things to address these issues, most notably hiring highly-regarded scouting director Bobby Heck. In fact, he lumps Jordan Lyles in with Max Sapp and Brian Bogusevic as draft disappointments. If he bothered to visit the Lexington stat page, he would have seen that Lyles and fellow 2008 draftees Ross Seaton and Brad Dydalewicz are enjoying some good successes in their first year.

Interesting: The Pirates’ GM published an open letter explaining his rationale for the Nate McLouth trade earlier this week. Doesn’t add too much to the analysis of the trade, but still a nice gesture to an upset fanbase. Hard to imagine anyone from the Astros front office doing this sort of thing.