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Oswalt Willing To Restructure Contract
FRIDAY: You may have missed this story amid the Winter Meetings chaos. Read the article below, and then check out Richard Justice's take.
WEDNESDAY: According to Jose de Jesus Ortiz, Astros ace Roy Oswalt is willing to restructure his contract and backload money to free up team resources to acquire another starter. Oswalt has a guaranteed $47MM left on his contract over the next three years.
The cash-strapped Astros considered Ty Wigginton a non-tender candidate at one point, but trade interest is strong (the deadline is Friday). Wigginton may be too pricey for the D'Backs though. At the least, they'd have to get creative. And while the Astros made an inquiry on Randy Johnson, Ed Wade implied the pitcher is out of his price range. The recent Michael Barrett rumor was downplayed as well.
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That is awesome.
Posted by: CitizenSnips | December 10, 2008 at 09:18 PM
I gotta respect Oswalt, man... You can just tell by the way he acts that he just wants to win
Posted by: xjoe87x | December 10, 2008 at 09:19 PM
"I gotta respect Oswalt, man... You can just tell by the way he acts that he just wants to win"
Agreed, he will do whatever it takes to be a winner, and that is why the stros owe it to him to get another starter and actually make a run at a division title.
Posted by: facemelter | December 10, 2008 at 09:20 PM
Oswalt is a class act.
Posted by: melonis rex | December 10, 2008 at 09:22 PM
No union screams?
Posted by: start_wearing_purple | December 10, 2008 at 09:25 PM
its kinda too little to late. makes you wonder if the giants could have gotten CC.
Posted by: drumzalicious | December 10, 2008 at 09:39 PM
They should trade Oswalt to the Cubs.
Posted by: rememberthecoop | December 10, 2008 at 09:43 PM
"its kinda too little to late. makes you wonder if the giants could have gotten CC."
... Oswalt is on the Astros
Posted by: xjoe87x | December 10, 2008 at 09:46 PM
LOL, Oswalt isn't going to the Cubs, Drayton will hang onto Oswalt through thick and thin.. Until he retires
Posted by: elcaballofan4eva | December 10, 2008 at 09:48 PM
I couldnt see Oswalt in another uniform.
Posted by: facemelter | December 10, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Oswalt is a class act. Ed Wade and Drayton McCheap (formerly Drayton McMoney) absolutely owe it to him to acquire another starting pitcher...and no, Ed Wade, I don't mean Livan Hernandez. Make a real move.
Oswalt has been patient through so much of the Astros crap, and he plans on retiring when his current contract is up. So the 'Stros owe it to him to go for broke (economic climate be damned!) and do what it takes to put the best rotation behind ol' Roy out there for the next few years. Hell, I'll even give Wade permission to pull a Purpura and drain the farm if it means a respectable rotation for the next few years.
Posted by: thered86 | December 10, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Oswalt is definiately a class act. He will stay in a stros uniform until he retires, I can almost gurantee it.
Posted by: kingfelix93 | December 12, 2008 at 12:39 AM
I agree 100%, we need an actual number two, (Sheets, or Pettitte but he doesn't want anything to do with Houston)
Hopefully Wade can get the Stros some pitching when he trades Wiggy and maybe Miggy... We shall see.
Posted by: elcaballofan4eva | December 12, 2008 at 12:42 AM
Ben Sheet anybody
Posted by: Omar052391 | December 12, 2008 at 12:45 AM
One of Sheets perfered teams are the Astros, becasue Oswalt is one of his good bodies, and he won't be too far from his home in Louisana,
Now the Stros need to find some teams that would take Wiggy and Miggy, and what I have been reading Wade seems real optimistic about trades, but Wade isn't going to leak anything out....
Posted by: elcaballofan4eva | December 12, 2008 at 12:50 AM
Typo Edit- Buddies not bodies LOL
Posted by: elcaballofan4eva | December 12, 2008 at 01:01 AM
Backload the contract to $30M for the last year, stupid Yankee FO will take it.
Posted by: juiced | December 12, 2008 at 01:10 AM
If he really wanted to win, he wouldn't have signed that extension with Huston.
Plus, they have no prospects worth mentioning about.
Posted by: strikethree | December 12, 2008 at 02:32 AM
"If he really wanted to win, he wouldn't have signed that extension with Huston.
Plus, they have no prospects worth mentioning about." -strikethree
This stuff sets me off. Just weird blanket statements that have no backing. 1st, Oswalt signed the extension in 2006, a year after reaching the world series, and 2 years after being ripped off from going to the world series by Jim Edmonds.
2, when he did sign this contract the farm system wasn't as bare. They still had 2 top 100 prospects in Troy Patton and Hunter Pence. Matt Albers and Taylor Buchholz was still around as well.
Posted by: Darin | December 12, 2008 at 06:54 AM
And they barely missed the playoffs in '06, and was contenders until the last weekend of '08... Which they weren't suppose to be.
The Farm is slowly getting back together, if the Astros continue to sign 50/51-53 draftees they shall be ok in a few yrs.
That's why the astros need a true #2 to be a stop gap, and let the prospects mature... So they will be called up in a few yrs
We have Trinadad, Norris, Perez, Castro, Lo... That are the Astros top prospects of now... Well you can add the catcher the Astros added yesturday from the Rule 5 draft... Palmisano. He suppose to be pretty good defensively, and better then Towles offensively.
Posted by: elcaballofan4eva | December 12, 2008 at 07:59 AM
"They should trade Oswalt to the Cubs."
HEy there ya go, The Astros trade an ace pitcher to an inter-league rival, you are pretty smart, why aren't you a GM by now!
Either way though not like the Cub's Front Office could work out a deal for an ace pitcher anyway right? LMAO!!
Sure hope that post was sarcastic!
Posted by: AstrosCoverage.blogspot.com | December 12, 2008 at 10:16 AM