Beware of the Astro off day in late July. Two big pieces of news, and a few words about what it means. First, Tyler White has been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Andre Scrubb, an 8th round, right-handed college arm who’s at AA Tulsa. As a Dodger farm hand, he’s posted good K numbers but walked too many guys.
The bigger piece of news is that the Astros decided to keep Straw on the team. This was not entirely unforeseen, as Straw was able to accumulate quite a bit of value in limited at bats, and that he would probably make the playoff roster over Kemp.