Looks like the Astros may have picked up some lefty bullpen help off the waiver wire. The Detroit Free Press reports that Byrdak who was released out of spring training after a solid 2007 in the Tiger bullpen was close to resigning a minor league deal with the Tigers but the Astros made a better offer.
“I felt like there was more opportunity to get back (to the big leagues) quicker.”
Byrdak will get a chance in RR to show that he is the 3.20 ERA, 49 K in 45 innings pitcher he was in the Tiger pen last season and not the 13.50 ERA pitcher he was during spring training.
“I felt like I had a lot of unfinished business there,” he said. “The way spring training went for me, it was kind of embarrassing.