Why are the Astros wasting September?

With everything you mentioned. This is so important not just for the sake of seeing these players, but also because it needs to look like the front office and management CARE about next year. From the offseason until now, they’ve been phoning it in—making safely mediocre decisions that nobody can get excited about (except maybe calling up Norris, albeit a month too late, and signing Mier). Unless they make some radical changes, they’re going to keep bleeding fans.

Certainly he won’t be a great major league hitter, but it’s quite possible that he could at least be better than Blum if we’re moving Miggy to 3B and taking Blum out of the everyday lineup. Who knows what kind of drop we can expect from him moving up big league pitching, but the ceiling (his current numbers plus his potential for growth as a hitter) is certainly far higher.

Anyway, we need to cut payroll and pick up some pitching, and Blum is one of the players who ought to go.

It would make watching the games a lot more interesting to say the least.

I was watching Quick Pitch the MLB Networks recap highlight show this morning and I was sad to not see Boone make the Premier Plays (top plays) not just for his outstanding play at first base, but also for the fact that the man had heart surgery five months ago. If he was a Yankee he would of been in there.

I’m sympathetic to the need to finish out the AAA season. One less week for the call ups isn’t a big deal. And Round Rock is so barren that it would be embarrassing to play games with those guys gone; in fact, they physically can’t complete the season that way…which would necessitate one week call ups from AA, and probably on down the line. That doesn’t make sense for only one week. The Astros have an ethical obligation to their minor league team, particularly one that is already complaining about the Astros giving them so few decent players.

about keeping a few good players in RR. As far as bringing guys up from CC, Van Ostrand and Castro are gone and Locke is out with injury, so there is not a lot to call up, if they took that route. It’s a good point too that the Ryans are apparently already irritated about the dearth of talent that they have been getting recently.
Personally, I am going to Sunday’s game and was very excited to find out that Bud Norris is scheduled to pitch. However, with all apologies to Billy Sadler, after the minor league season ends on Labor Day, I see no reason to follow the remainder of the season unless the club does a few of the things that Dying Quail mentions after September 7. I guess I’ll follow the Word Cup to see how Van Ostrand and Castro are doing.

One benefit of bringing up all the guys mentioned before the end of the minor league season(Manzella, Towles, Bogusevic, Ramirez), it sets up the distinct possibility of a new Round Rock Festival, SADLERPALOOZA. Here’ s the potential lineup:

Esposito-C
Saccomanno-1B
Vallejo-2B
Smith-SS
Johnson-3B
Kata-LF
Abercrombie-CF
Ray Sadler- RF(Called up from CC)
Billy Sadler-SP

Drayton will blame the season on a poor economy and calf injuries, and will talk about being a champion, but he couldn’t get a clue if he was given the board game.

2009 is dead and stinks like a fish. Get a jump on 2010. As a longtime fan, I could not agree more and share your frustration.