Rumor no more: Astros trade for Tejada

Hello all,

Well as we reported earlier, the Astros were looking at getting SS Tejada.  Well it’s official now, the Astros sent pitchers Troy Patton, Matt Albers, along with Luke Scott, Dennis Sarfate and Michael Costanzo to Baltimore for Tejada.

Miguel Tejada has been looking for “change of scenery” for a while according ESPN and now he’s got it.   The 31 year old Tejada, played for the Oakland As for 7 years and Baltimore Orioles for 4 years.  He has been injury prone last couple of season and hopefully that won’t be a problem for him here in houston.

In 2007 he played in 133 games, with an avg of .296, 72 Runs and 81 RBIs and 18 HRs, his lowest numbers in the 4 year stint with Baltimore.

Okay, so we got Tejada.  He’s not the Tejada of 3 or 4 yrs ago, his stats have been slumping, but he’s a much needed improvement over Everett, at least in the hitting department.

We gave up 5, let me repeat that, 5 players for a SS.  I think thats kinda high, especially for a player that has slumped in stats and been a bit injury prone.  To make things [worse], we gave up to of our young pitchers, Patton and Albers (anyone having flashbacks to the Jennings trade?… I shiver at the thought)  All I can say is I hope Wade knows something that we don’t because yes, our infield and outfield are solid now and so is our hitting (theoretically) but they better get ready for do some serious work out in the field because other than Roy O, we don’t have any other pitchers can consistently shutdown the competition.  Again, maybe there is something we don’t know … yet.