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Astros Complete Trade with Blue Jays

Brian Hamilton — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:31:06 +0000

In a trade that was agreed upon back on July 20, the Astros have officially received SP Kevin Comer as the player to be named later in the trade with the Toronto Blue Jays, officially completing the mega deal. Comer completes the ten player deal which sent J.A. Happ, Brandon Lyon and David Carpenter to Toronto for Francisco Cordero, Ben Francisco and minor leaguers Joe Musgrove, Asher Wojciechowski, David Rollins and Carlos Perez. Comer has reported to Greeneville to finish out the season.

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Astros Complete Mega Trade with Blue Jays

Brian Hamilton — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:05:06 +0000

So I get to the theater to see “The Dark Knight Rises”, I park the car, buy the ticket and on my way into the theater, I pull up twitter on my iPhone and see that we have completed a mega deal with the Blue Jays involving ten players. The Astros have traded starting pitcher, J.A. Happ along with relief pitchers Brandon Lyon and David Carpenter to Toronto for a package of seven players including a player to be named later and two current major leaguers. The current major leaguers are RP, Francisco Cordero and OF, Ben Francisco, who will report directly to the Astros while the minor league players acquired include Asher Wojciechowski (1st rnd pick in 2010), Joseph Musgrove (1st rnd pick in 2011), Carlos Perez and David Rollins. More on these guys after the jump.

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Mike Hessman; a real life Crash Davis

Greg Thurston — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:31:07 +0000

Astros farmhand Mike Hessman is having a big year at Oklahoma City. The RedHawks 1B/DH is producing some monstrous power numbers in his 17th minor league season. The 34 year-old Hessman has connected for 27 homers on the year, 14 of them coming in the month of June and earning him player of the month honors. Hessman has a .260/.318/.580 slash line and 59 RBIs in 79 games.

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