Who all will be there today for the opener? Meetup somewhere for beers and putting faces to screen names?
I've taken a few ?s on Barret Loux. Astros have been looking at medical records, but still exploring. Wade said no offer yet.
Zach LevineBogusevic, Downs, Esposito, Villar, Wright will join Astros in September.
Brian McTaggart's TwitterMarcus Nidiffer and Chris Wallace promoted to Tri-City from Greeneville
http://twitter.com/AstrosCountySource: Myers deal with Astros will be two-yr extension through 2012 with club option for '13. Option also will have vesting element.
Ken Rosenthal via Twitter - take this with a grain of salt, but it is the first actual bit of news we've gotten on the extension. McTaggart just tweeted that Myers is looking for a third year as a guarantee. I think these two reports explain why there has been no news, officially, on the deal since 2:30 PM.[Tal] Smith said he expects to make a deal because there is "considerable interest’’ in Oswalt, with "three or four’’ teams trying to make it happen. Smith felt by tomorrow things should begin to heat up.
From Nick Cafardo's piece in this morning's Boston Globe- well worth the read.