Roster Moves - Updated

Houston
SS Marwin Gonzalez was activated from the DL.
SS Jed Lowrie was placed on the 15-day DL.
C Carlos Corporan was put on the 40-man roster and assigned from Oklahoma City to Houston.
C Jason Castro was placed on the 15-day DL.
RHP Kyle Weiland was placed on the 60-day DL.

Oklahoma City
C Jair (Jay) Fernandez was assigned from Corpus Christi to Oklahoma City.
RHP Jonnathan Aristil was placed on the temporary inactive list.
2B Jimmy Paredes was activated from the temporary inactive list.

Corpus Christi
C Rene Garcia was assigned from Lancaster to Corpus Christi.
RHP Jarred Cosart was activated from the DL.
SS Jonathan Villar was placed on the 7-day DL.
SS Ben Orloff was assigned from Lancaster to Corpus Christi.

Lancaster
RHP Bobby Doran was assigned from Corpus Christi to Lancaster.
SS Chan Moon was assigned from Lexington to Lancaster.
UNCONFIRMED report that C Roberto Pena is being assigned from Lexington to Lancaster.

Lexington
Jay Austin was activated from the DL.
UPDATED TO ADD: C Luis Alvarez was assigned from Greeneville to Lexington.

Greeneville
2B Josh Magee was released.
LHP Zach Hardoin was released.
One I missed - RHP Jose Perdomo was released a couple of weeks ago.

Link to Josh Magee Interview

Josh Magee did an interview with the Birmingham News about "the streak" and how that changed things for him.  Included in the article is the news that he will start the season at Extended Spring Training due to a shoulder injury.  The money quote from the article?

"The moment you take the Little League out of it ... you make the game a little harder than it really is"

It's a good read and worth reading the whole interview.

Lots-O-Links

This has been one crazy, busy off-season with tons of things being reported, talked about, analyzed, etc.  Links to recent goings-on below.

A great article from Jonathan Mayo on how Kim Ng is working to improve the international signings process

Jonathan Mayo's take on the Astros prospects participating in the Arizona Fall League

The latest blog posting from Josh Zeid on his experiences in the Arizona Fall League

Jason Castro talks about the progress he's making in coming back from his knee surgery

Brian Bogusevic's nomination for a GIBBY award

Kody Hinze talking about his Arizona Fall League experience

Dallas Keuchel talking about the pitches he's working on in the Arizona Fall League

Appy Astros looks at where the 2008 Greeneville Astros players are and how they're doing

Josh Magee gets a Milby award

I just assume that anyone who reads WTHB is also reading the Crawfishboxes site, but in case you missed it, I recorded a podcast with Tim, Sean and David to talk about top 30 prospects and more.  Here is Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Baseball Prospectus' top 11+ Astros prospect rankings

Top Prospect Alert's top 15 Astros prospect rankings

Enjoy!

Tweet of the Day

JTScott1 Jordan Scott

RT @GvilleAstros: Our 2011 MVP is @JTScott1! In 60 games, he had 246AB's, 1HR, 31RBI, .337AVG. Holds all-time batting record for @Gville ...

@mageeastro1 Josh Magee

@JTScott1 that batting record!! ayeee!!!

Happy Birthday - 10/1

3B Chris Johnson (27)
Drafted in the 4th round in 2006 out of Stetson University, Chris was unable to duplicate his success from 2010 in which he posted a .308/.337/.481/.818 line.  In 2011 he had a slow start but picked things up considerably in June, only to backslide in July.  Following a stint at OKC, Chris came back to Houston with the September call-ups and finished the year off nicely with a .314 BA in September.  Overall for 2011, Chris posted a .251/.291/.378/.670 line with a very respectable .281 BA with runners in scoring position.

2B Josh Magee (20)
An 18th round pick in 2010, this Alabama native had an excellent year at Greeneville, with a .283 BA and a .346 OBP.  He hit a gaudy .376 in August, thanks in large part to a string of 12 hits in 12 straight AB's in the middle of the month.  He hit .306 against lefties and .277 against right-handed pitchers.