Richard Justice is a fan of yesterday's moves:
Give him credit for moving fast in the wake of Jose Valverde rejecting arbitration and Hawkins signing elsewhere. Within hours, he'd made two moves that probably take care of the eighth and ninth innings...
...I don't know how it'll shake out, but the Astros have a chance to have a better bullpen than they had in 2009. No National League team blew more saves. Only the Washington Nationals converted a lower percentage of their save chances...
Now about third base...
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
