With the rebuilding effort and 2013 move to the AL West, when are the Astros primed to compete? You do have some top prospects coming up in the next few years. Click to see full post on Beyond the Box Score
Holy flying bats, Batman! This guy catches a bat that was flying into the stands and didn't spill his beer. Awesome! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2684916/posts
Adam Wainwright is heading back to St. Louis to have his right elbow examined, and right now the team expects the worst. "I can say just based on the initial evaluation from our training staff, things do not look encouraging," said GM John Mozeliak according to Derrick Goold of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ESPN's Buster Olney says (on Twitter) that it appears the team is expecting their ace to have Tommy John surgery, which would keep him out for all of 2011. *I don't see how more people can't recognize the correlation between poor mechanics and serious arm injuries.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Or 1992 Topps Kenny Lofton card. Congratulations to Subber10 for creating our 1,000th FanPost! He wins that beauty of a card you see above. Thanks to everyone who contributes to our FanPosts, too. You all really raise the bar for content on this site and all your work is very much appreciated.
A headline mistake? Or is there some new stat I'm missing?
Don't know if any one has noticed, but this is the Astros new spring training (and B.P.) cap. Guess they didn't want to go with the do-rag under the cap look any longer.
Josh Banks is now Josh Banker

