Roster Moves - 3/21

Larry McCoy ‏ @larryemccoy

#Astros Comadena, Lane, Ness, Vargas, Alvino, and Williams released Tuesday. Best of Luck guys!

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Still no official word yet, but if this is accurate, the following players have been released:

C Jordan Comadena - confirmed

OF Bryce Lane

RHP Michael Ness

OF Jose Vargas

RHP Wander Alvino

C Bubby Williams - confirmed

In addition, it appears that C Kevin Gonzalez was a voluntary retirement.  In any event, it is confirmed that he is no longer with the club.

Also, Baseball America is showing that former Astro IF Oswaldo Navarro has signed with the Mets.

Happy Birthday - 10/20

RHP Michael Ness (24)
Originally from New Jersey, Ness was drafted out of Duke in the 33rd round in 2010.  He wasn't able to duplicate his good numbers from 2010 (at Tri-City) after being moved to hitter-friendly Lancaster in 2011.  He was 4-6 with a 5.98 ERA and a 1.613 WHIP with the Jethawks.

DH Rafael Valenzuela (24)
Signed as a non-drafted free agent from Arizona in 2010, Rafy spent the majority of his season at Tri-City and put up some pretty good numbers.  His batting line for 2011 was .307/.359/.441/.800 over 127 AB's.