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last year after 13 innings brought back after starting the year hurt, severely screwed by Cecil Cooper, who, in 07, left him in 3 games when he CLEARLY had nothing to “take one for the team” as Coop had exhausted his relievers.LH SP Wandy Rodriguez still hereRH SP Ezequiel Astacio?- went to Rangers AAA club after replica Longines L2.643.4.73.4 Men's watch season, sucked there too, now OOB?RH SP Brandon Duckworth signed with Royals as FA after 05 season, spent 06, 07 and 08 bouncing back and forth between ML and AAA, naturally beat the Astros in his game facing us.Sucked at AAA last yearRH RP Chad Qualls traded to Dbax after the 07 season for Valverde -?used as both setup man and closer in 08, closer in 09.

beatified in 08SS Adam Everett was let go as a FA after the 07 season

Still smoking hot, too…?1B Lance Berkman still here?2B Craig Biggio?- retired after wrecking the 07 season, beatified in 08SS Adam Everett was let go as a FA after the 07 season, spent 08 with the Twins (didn't play much had an injured shoulder), 09 with the Tigers, will play with Tigers in 2010?3B Morgan Ensberg traded?to the replica Longines L2.194.0.83.6 watch Padres for chewing gum 8/07.Signed with the Yankees AAA team in 08, had a few crappy ABs when A-Rod was injured?- now OOB?- never was able to recover his stroke after injuring his shoulder in May 06LF Chris Burke traded to the DBax with Juan Gutierrez and Chad Qualls for Jose Valverde.

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In 102 games (437 PA) he had a . replica Longines Dolcevita Audrey Hepburn watch Jason Lane traded to the Padres 9/07? (from the minors) for nothing still in the minors.1B Mike Lamb let go after the 07 season, signed with the Twins, got hurt, sucked, spent last year at AAA Buffalo, suckedOF Orlando Palmeiro retired after the 06 season?IF Jose Vizcaino let go as FA after the season, signed with Giants, released, signed with WS champion Cardinals, then retired after the 06 series.1B Jeff Bagwell?- anointed as Saint after he retired after the 06 season.

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the year in which we lost every away game but 3 for the first 2 months; the year in which only Morgan Ensberg managed to hit before Lance Berkman came back in May and found his stroke; the year in which Jason Lane had his only full good year (you talk about a wasted career); the year in which Brad Lidge went from infallible to Dan replica Longines L5.502.0.51.2 Ladie's watch Miceli territory, giving up homers to the likes of Scott Podsednick in the World Series which, by the way, I am REALLY grateful I got to go to, as I am pretty sure I won't see the Astros in another WS in my lifetime…

But I digress…I thought, just for fun, that we'd take a look at all the guys who used to be on the Astros, see who they were traded for (if they were traded)?and how they've done since leaving.I'm also going to include a few minor leaguers who are now major leaguers.Please note that I haven't made any comments about the guys who are “still here” replica Longines PVD L4.209.2.11.8 watch that's for my first half review entry.2005:?C Brad Ausmus played until 2008, left as a FA, then signed with the Dodgers for 09: hit .295?over 107 PA/36 games as Russell Martin's backup.

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The Organization was bound and determined that he would be a ML reliever and dammed if he was gonna prove them wrong…RH RP Dave Borkowski?- another one of Phil's ex-Tigers (now an A ball?pitching coach?with the Astros Organization).Threw 71 innings of 95 ERA+ ball in 06, 71.2 innings of 85 ERA+ ball in 07 and 36 innings of 56 E replica Longines L5.686.4.16.6 Men's watch ball in 08 before being sent to AAA.Had a few innings in 09 for Philly AAA and in the indys.Was a decent long reliever, but was misused (what a surprise) by Cooper as a high leverage guy, which he wasn't.LH RP Phil Barzilla a Houston boy, the 4th rounder in the 01 draft had a cup of coffee, got exactly one appearance, 0.1 innings, gave up a single to the only hitter he faced.

Never saw the majors again.He repeated AAA in 07, had mediocre numbers as a spot starter/reliever, then played for AA Seattle, then San Diego in 08, then threw 3.2 innings for AA Texas last year looks as if he's OOB.These past few weeks, I've been editing (had to because of the move) the entries I wrote in 04 and 05 replica Longines L2.670.4.73.6 Men's watch done those fun years we pulled it together after the ASB enough to make it to the playoffs.Amazing to re-read that stuff 2004, the year we were supposed to be absolutely an AWESOME team, but lacked 1 starter and 2 relievers, and the team stayed at .

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