MLB (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The streak-of-lightning speed of center fielder Michael Bourn, the slick fielding of second baseman Kaz Matsui and the spacious jersey of reliever Jeff Fulchino have the Astros trio in contention for two of MLB.com's This Year in Baseball Awards.
The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... How do you evaluate a player on such a small subset of play? In the 2009 Grapefruit League, Michael Bourn led the Astros with 103 plate appearances. The rest of the regulars had around 60-70 plate appearances each, including guys like Jason Smith and Chris Johnson. Obviously, Bourn was the Astros' most improved player in the regular season, but had a .685 OPS in Spring Training....
Federal Baseball (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Him Zim!!! Go Vote For Him... (ed. note - "Seriously, the competition? Jacoby Ellsbury ? Who? Michael Bourn ? From the movies? Torii Hunter ? (He's pretty good...)...Kaz Matsui? (Wasn't good enough for the Mets ?)... Yadier Molina (Pretty Good Too...uh)... Melvin Mora ? (Next')...uh... Jimmy Rollins ...and Troy Tulowitzi...well Zimmerman takes a back seat to no one here... Vote...
SportsJustice (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Astros are going to give 3B Chris Johnson and C Jason Castro every chance to be in the Opening Day starting lineup. But they're prepared to send one or both of them to AAA if they have tough springs. At the moment, the Astros are set at just four of eight positions: LF Carlos Lee, CF Michael Bourn, RF Hunter Pence and 1B Lance Berkman. Every other position is open. Some are less...
AstrosDaily.com's Astrowire (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... would be to attract Toronto's attention. That would require Bud Norris and either Hunter Pence or Michael Bourn, just for starters. Jason Castro and names like Ross Seaton, Jordan Lyles or Felipe Paulino may also be thrown into the mix. If the deal looked something like Norris, Pence, Lyles and Castro for Halladay and a couple of other prospects, what say you? There is one order of...
