Houston is holding a news conference at 10 a.m. Thursday morning to make an announcement and speculation is they will name Washington 3B coach Porter as the new manager.

Talking about our minor league reviews, Tony D's headphones and a trio of front office topics...

Talking about Jed Lowrie's recovery, Lance Berkman's coaching future and OBP in the draft.

Talking about minor league affiliates changing hands, a nice piece on Jeff Luhnow and MLB.com's Top 100 prospects...

Talking about a six-man rotation, innings pitched projections, curtailing September callups and Tango's scouting report

Talking about minor league awards, the possibility of Mike Pelfrey and scouting Edgar Gonzalez.

Talking about Tyler Greene's defense, Baseball America on DDJ and who the callups from OKC might be...

Talking about roster moves, You Make The Call contest and how football could affect the Astros...

Thursday's Three Astros Things: multi positional players; Keuchel vs. Pence; and Astros' revenues.

Talking about Houston's new uniforms, calling up Jimmy Paredes and the generations of sabermetricians.