The fall/winter leagues in the states are wrapping up.  The Hawaiian Winter League wrapped up today.  Here is how the Astros farm hands faired.

Jason Castro – tied for 5th in the league in average (.333), 7th in the league in slugging (.487), 4th in the league in OBP (.438), and 5th in the league in OPS (.925).  He tied for 9th most doubles (6) and tied for 6th most walks (16).  He struck out 21 times in 74 AB and only made one error. Read the rest of this entry »

Trade for Peavy? “We talked early on, and (Padres GM Kevin Towers) was candid in looking at our situation and our system that we probably don’t have the pieces to make it work,” Wade said.

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Let’s get things started in Puerto Rico who just started their winter league on Thursday night. Here are the Astros’ connections to the league and how they have fared so far.

Lobos de Arecibo
Raymar Diaz, RHP – in his first two outings went a combined 3 2/3 innings giving up 4 hits and 1 walk. He struck out 3 while being held accountable for 2 runs.

Edwin Maysonet, SS – has hit in all three games so far (4 for 13), with only 1 strike out.
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The HWL enters it’s last week of play.  Jason Castro continues to lead the team with his .329 average.  He has played in 21 games so far and has had 14 of this 20 strike outs in his last 10 games.  He has had 5 multi strike out games in his last 10 and only had one game where he hasn’t struck out at all in his last 10.  Still for a guy who was just drafted 6 months ago, he has done impressively well during the HWL. Read the rest of this entry »

Astros.com has a feature on Mark Ori who is on the Taxi Squad during the Arizona Fall League. Here is what he says he learned during his repeat year in Salem. Read the rest of this entry »

As rosters change in the U.S. (Polin Trinidad being put on the 40 man roster), rosters also change in the Caribbean (Bourn, Trinidad, Florentino now on rosters in DWL and Jeiller Castillo showing up in the VWL). The Puerto Rican league is also about to get under way. At first glance, from a Spanish language website, we will have at least two Astros connected players in the Puerto Rican League this year. Their season begins on the 6th.
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