(Footer) Towles will probably see the most playing time of all of the callups. (Cooper said. “It won’t be a regular rotation, but he’ll get some work.”) Humberto Quintero will continue to receive regular work, and Brad Ausmus will finish the season as Roy Oswalt’s personal catcher.
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Wade on,
September callups “I don’t view September as a reward situation,” he said. “If there’s a particular player that we feel we need to take a good, hard look at, there’s an opportunity to do that.”
As I said before…
Cecil Cooper said center fielder Michael Bourn would get the majority of the starts in center field during September.
Wandy fixes walks
“His command was good. His breaking ball was good,” said Cooper. …
After giving up 11 walks over a total of 7.2 innings in his last two starts, Wandy walked 1 in 7 on Tuesday. What was different?
WHAT!?
Hunter Pence supposedly predicted he would hit a home run before Sunday’s two-run blast off Oliver Perez, Cooper said Monday.
Yes, you will miss him.
Sure, there’s major league catchers available everywhere, littering the side walk, GMs have to step over them to get in the building. They could have any other catcher just for the asking. The Astros have ruined season after season with the one they have now. To prove it, McTaggart lists the catchers the Astros have employed besides Brad Ausmus,