Be sure to check out The Batguy's and Not Hank's pieces on Bagwell and the HOF, in addition to these fine Grade-A links:
*Evan Drellich writes that, despite having addressed the team's offseason goals (reliever, outfield), the Astros are one more deal short of a good winter
*Reid Laymance says the numbers are tilting Bagwell's way.
*Jayson Stark has five lessons from the 2016 HOF voting.
*Ronny Torreyes, who was protected by the Astros instead of Delino DeShields in the 2014 Rule 5 draft, was DFA'd by the Dodgers to make room for new pitcher Kenta Maeda.
*New Tri-City ValleyCats hitting coach Dillon Lawson is coming from Southeast Missouri State (where he held the same job), and took the position based on the recommendation from former player Alex Winkelman, who spent the end of 2015 in Tri-City.
*Former Astro great Anthony Bass - part of a trade with the Rangers and Mariners that sent Tom Wilhelmsen to Texas - has asked for his release from Seattle to go play in Japan.
*Read about Al Bacosa, the 1,389th player chosen in the 1988 draft - one spot before Mike Piazza.
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-Hal Smith
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Friday, January 8, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Wednesday Morning Hot Links
The Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2016 election announcement will take place this evening, and you can bet on...some sort of strong reaction either way.
*Things are looking good for Bagwell, writes Ortiz.
*Bagwell doesn't know what to expect with the results.
*The Boston Herald's Steve Buckley thinks any voter who doesn't share their ballot should lose their vote. (Agree).
*Here's FiveThirtyEight with an article on how the BBWAA has ignored the last 50 years of baseball.
*The Astros made some reassignments/hirings yesterday. To break it down (New hirings in italics):
Corpus
Dave Borkowski: Pitching coach
Lancaster
Ramon Vazquez: Manager
Quad Cities
Omar Lopez: Manager
Chris Holt: Pitching coach
Tri-City
Drew French: Pitching coach
Dillon Lawson: Hitting coach
Greeneville
Josh Bonifay: Manager
Bill Murphy: Pitching coach
GCL Astros
Wladimir Sutil: Latin Infield Instructor
Aaron Delguidice (Fresno/Lancaster) and Tommy Kawamura (Corpus/Quad Cities) have been named as development coaches.
*Evan Drellich notes that Omar Lopez was originally supposed to be the Lancaster coach, and was assigned to Quad Cities, while Vazquez was originally the coach for the GCL Astros and got the big jump to Lancaster.
*And here's the rundown on all those changes, from Evan Drellich.
*Uh-oh. Derek Jeter's trainer is linked to the alleged Peyton Manning HGH supplier.
*Things are looking good for Bagwell, writes Ortiz.
*Bagwell doesn't know what to expect with the results.
*The Boston Herald's Steve Buckley thinks any voter who doesn't share their ballot should lose their vote. (Agree).
*Here's FiveThirtyEight with an article on how the BBWAA has ignored the last 50 years of baseball.
*The Astros made some reassignments/hirings yesterday. To break it down (New hirings in italics):
Corpus
Dave Borkowski: Pitching coach
Lancaster
Ramon Vazquez: Manager
Quad Cities
Omar Lopez: Manager
Chris Holt: Pitching coach
Tri-City
Drew French: Pitching coach
Dillon Lawson: Hitting coach
Greeneville
Josh Bonifay: Manager
Bill Murphy: Pitching coach
GCL Astros
Wladimir Sutil: Latin Infield Instructor
Aaron Delguidice (Fresno/Lancaster) and Tommy Kawamura (Corpus/Quad Cities) have been named as development coaches.
*Evan Drellich notes that Omar Lopez was originally supposed to be the Lancaster coach, and was assigned to Quad Cities, while Vazquez was originally the coach for the GCL Astros and got the big jump to Lancaster.
*And here's the rundown on all those changes, from Evan Drellich.
*Uh-oh. Derek Jeter's trainer is linked to the alleged Peyton Manning HGH supplier.
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