and still get the #1 for the next year... get it

oh wow talk about a brain fart

MLB's youtube channel adds videos like a week later. LOL

This was the play where Miguel Cabrera nearly won the game with a walk-off, three-run double. I thought it was a walk-off grand slam off the bat. Astros were clinging to a 7-5 lead with two outs in the bottom of the 9th. Bases juiced for the best player in the game.

It was Brandon Barnes' 27th birthday also.

We're so bad but we just won two out of three games against the Royals. We're also 4-3 in our last 7 games and two of those losses were by 1 run to a very good Pirates team on the road. Not to mention a game we stole at powerhouse Detroit prior to that.



I do want that first overall pick in the 2014 draft but man the Marlins better get Giancarlo Stanton back soon.

6 down, 4 to go

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-angels-hit-rock-bottom/

holy crap that's almost impressive!

This post was edited by numone on Jun 4 2013 09:48pm

Can't wait to see who we take #1.

if you guys had to pick, who would you take #1?

This post was edited by drxscillator on Jun 6 2013 04:12pm

I'd personally take Appel, that extra year in college can only help, he's also a Houston native, and pitching is our weakness in our farm system atm.

Yeah baby! I'm soooooo excited! Now we have to sign him. Scott Boras is his agent but Appel is an Astros fan from Houston.



Mark Appel ‏@MAppel26 26m
I'm coming home, I'm coming home! Tell the world, I'm coming home!

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9350254/2013-mlb-draft-houston-astros-pick-mark-appel-no-1-pick

Astros make Mark Appel top pick

The Houston Astros selected Stanford pitcher Mark Appel with the No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft Thursday night.

Appel was considered a possible top pick last year, but Houston passed on the hometown kid and instead chose 17-year-old shortstop Carlos Correa from Puerto Rico. Appel slid to Pittsburgh at No. 8 but turned down a $3.8 million offer and returned to Stanford for his senior season.

The move paid off for Appel, a hard-throwing righty with a fastball in the mid-90s (mph). After going 10-4 with a 2.12 ERA and 130 strikeouts in 106 1-3 innings this season for the Cardinal, the 6-foot-4, 195-pound Appel is expected to fetch about $2 million more than he passed on with the Pirates.

"This is just a surreal moment for me and my family," Appel said in an interview on MLB Network. "Just knowing that I'm going back home is a real honor."