Adam Miller was Cleveland top pitching prospects for the last few years. Injuries have sideline him and Cleveland Non tender him. He is a Texas native from Plano and has electric stuff. Here are his numbers via alink http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/m/adam-miller-2.shtml here are some info on his pitches Miller amasses strikeouts (9.2 per game) with his 92-95 mph four-seam fastball and 84-88 mph slider (both plus pitches), and induces groundball outs with his 88-91 mph sinker. I hope Ed Wade gives him alook he just had surgery on his middle finger In 2009 he had re constructive surgery on his middle finger. It was stage 1 of a multi stage operation. Recovery time is 6-9 months. He is 6'4 190

Espn Rumor mill has Brett Myers being link to the 2 Texas teams the Rangers and Astros. They say we can either use him as a Closer or a Starter Behind Oswalt, Wandy, Norris(Myers) and Wright? I know last year he wanted to be a closer. So maybe we have a deal with Hawkins to reamin the set up guy and have Myers becoming our new Closer. I will be really suprised if this happens as Lidge and Myers are Buds and I am sure Lidge has probably Dogged us to him.But then again we have no state Tax!!!!

Everyone know our 3rd base situation, earlier in the year I said we should go after Andy Marte when he was placed on Waivers and we did nothing. Know I read on ESPN Insider that the white Sox are going to either trade or release Josh fields. I hope Ed Wade put in a call to his agent if he is released or offer some A ball guy for him. He was the 18th pick in the 04 draft and in 07 he hit .244 23 HR and 67 RBI and had a OPS of 788 in 100 games. He needs a change and he could be our answer to the 40 year old 3 rd baseman. Any thoughts?

Read today that former Rice and 1st rd draft pick Philip Humber could have been picked up on waivers, but no team made a claim on him. Wow we let a Texas kid and former top prospect get away. I sometime wonder what goes thru our GM and Owners head. What makes this worse is Philip Humber is from Carthage and I think that is where Drayton is from. He had to know about him hell they had Philip Humber Day when Rice won the world Series.

Josh is a free agent at the end of the year. Do you think uncle Drayton would have enough brains to try and sign him? All I know is after last nights game we need to go after some pitching. I dont care who it is we cant give up that many runs thru 3 innings!! Ortiz looked horrible and I wont even start with the starter. If we cant keep the other team from scoring it makes no since to keep Roy here.

I play fantasy baseball and I have seen a couple of guys here post on it. I was thinking that it would be great for those of us who play fantasy Baseball to have a spot where we can get other players advise on trades or roster moves or whatever. Sometimes you get a guy pushing a trade and you want to get some advise on what to do. So I purpose that we have a Post that any one who has a question about fantsy baseball can put it here.

Andy Marte at one time was a top pick in The Braves and Indians Minor league system. He was released yesterday as he was out of options. I am hoping that the Astros take a good look at him he is a 3rd baseman and he is only 25 years old. He hit .275 with 20 hr and 74 in 2005. Here is a look at his stats http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/M/andy-marte.shtml We have 2 old men at 3rd wouldnt it be nice to bring a former top prospect and see if we could get him to be our 3rd baseman of the future???

http://hotstove.mlblogs.com/archives/2008/12/andino_still_being_shopped_by.html This would be a great person to trade for to spell Tejada. He is young out of options and could be on our Roster from Day one. If you look at his numbers http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/A/robert-andino.shtml He would be a great person for Tejada to take under his wing and groom as his replacement in a year or 2 maybe even next year as a spot starter for Tejada!!!!

The Oakland A's put Bobby Crosby on waivers. He would be a great fit. Let him work out his issues and he would be a great replacement for Tejada when he becomes a free agent at the end of 09!! Sources told FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal that the A's have placed Bobby Crosby on outright waivers. It probably won't amount to much. If Crosby is on waivers, then anyone can take his current contract, which has one year and $5.25 million left on it. However, it's doubtful that anyone will want him at that price. If he clears waivers, then he'd still be A's property and would continue to top the team's depth chart at shortstop.

Here is the link to who is non tender. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081213&content_id=3716347&vkey=hotstove2008&fext=.jsp Some of the names that stand out for the Astros are; Wil Ledezma 4.71 era 58 inn 53 so he is 6'4 Lefty Daniel Cabera 5.25 era 180 inn 95 so 6'7 righty Clay Hensley 5.31 era 39 inn 26 so 5'11 righty from Tomball Texas. I Hope we can get one of these guys hopefully Ledezma to sign with us and compete for a starters role in 09.