Monday, March 16, 2009

The Astros are first in something

Nice link from CM showing the average age of Major League rosters. Click it. Go on. Now scroll down. Scroll waaay down. There you go, oldest team in the Majors at 29.9 years old.

Basically 30.

Let's break this down. Who is older than 30 on this team?

31
Matt Kata
Roy Oswalt
Jason Smith

32
Geoff Geary
Carlos Lee
Jason Michaels

33
Lance Berkman
Toby Hall
Kaz Matsui
Chad Paronto

34
Darin Erstad
Russ Ortiz
Miguel Tejada

35
Geoff Blum
Tim Byrdak
Danny Graves
David Newhan

36
Aaron Boone
Mike Hampton
LaTroy Hawkins

37
Ivan Rodriguez

41
Doug Brocail

See? It's not that bad. There are a lot of guys on this list who will not be on this list come April 6. Let's revisit, shall we?