Hello all,
Astros make more off season news Friday when the club traded Second Baseman Chris Burke, Relievers Chad Qualls and Juan Gutierrez to the Diamondbacks in exchange for closer Jose Valverde.
According the Astros.com,
Valverde, 28, was 1-4 with a 2.66 ERA and a Major League-leading 47 saves for the Diamondbacks in 2007. His 47 saves also marked a career-high total, and he appeared on the National League All-Star team for the first time.
The Arizona franchise-record 47 saves also ranked tied for 15th all-time in a single season, and Valverde also struck out 78 hitters in 64 1/3 innings while walking 26 and allowing 46 hits
Now, we all knew that acquiring Matzui meant that Burke’s days as an astro were numbered but, I didn’t think Chad Qualls was on the list names available for trading. As a matter of fact, in my opinion, I really thought that Qualls would been a good candidate for the “closer-by-committee” method the astros might use.
So, Ed Wade seems to be chipping away at the position players availabilities, with the outfield and infield pretty much set, and now a decent closer, all we really need a good number 2 and number 3 starters. This task might be the most difficult and tricky, as the Astros really don’t have anything left to give up and there aren’t any good starting pitchers out there on the free agent market. Anyways, I’d say this trade is a good one… wait, Valverde isn’t on the Mitchell report is he? Sorry, I haven’t read it yet.
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I like this, giving up pile of mediocre players for a good one. I see a pattern.
Al,
What do you feel about acquiring a play mentioned in the Mitchel report.
Lambo
You are opening a whole new can of worms if you get me on this topic. I have a radical opinion about players and steroids. Maybe I’ll call up later today and give it to you.
Long story short…I have no problem with it. I agree with Allison Footer that there was no coincidence that they made this Tejada trade days before the report was scheduled to be released.
MLB doesn’t want steroids to end. They are making more money off of it then they ever were. If so why don’t they test everybody every year? Me personally, this is just the evolution of Man, survival for the fittest. I’m also a big Ron Paul guy. - Keep the Government out of our lives. I don’t like the Govt. telling us what we can and can’t put in our bodies or do with our bodies. What a waste of tax dollars making this a Federal Case.
Steroids are not regulated therefore you have people that don’t know how to balance the chemicals…look at Giambi. However when these things are moderated and regulated by professional MD’s, these things make you stronger, run faster, heal faster, increase immunity, all around help you live longer.
Our bodies are made up of chemicals. We inject other chemicals in our bodies for depression, control our ADD, and get ting rid of infections. We use steroids for our noses during allergy season don’t we? If that’s the case where do you draw the line? What about those “greenies” that baseball players were taking in in the 70’s. Do we investigate who took this? If so do take Hank Aaron and Nolan Ryan out of the Hall of Fame if we find them guilty of taking Greenies? If we want a ball organization of all natural abilities then should we regulate vitamins, special protein powders and have them only eat natural foods?
I’ve written enough for a comment but I can talk about this for another 20 paragraphs.
Hey Al,
great comment, you’ll love our next show, it’s a 2 parter, yes, we couldn’t fit all of it in an 1 hr show so we split it up into 2 shows. Anyways, if you feel you can talk/write 20 paragraphs on this issue, please feel free to do so and send it to us, we’ll post it as an OP-ED article and give you credit for it. what do you think?