Ryan Sherriff Assigned To Triple-A Durham

The two-time defending Governors' Cup champion Durham Bulls, in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Rays, have announced the team's preliminary Opening Day roster for the 2019 season. New manager Brady Williams will pilot a roster comprised of 16 players who appeared for the Bulls in the regular season or postseason in 2018.

Durham Official Site

Quinton McCracken & Tommy Gregg Named To Marlins' Minor League Staffs

The Miami Marlins today announced their 2018 Minor League on-field and clubhouse personnel. The announcement was made by Marlins Vice President of Player Development and Scouting Gary Denbo.

Miami Official Site

MLB Should Have More Latino GMs, Managers

Soon after Moises Rodriguez arrived in New York from Puerto Rico at 10 years old in the early 1980s, he declared his allegiance to the Yankees over the Mets.

Post-Dispatch

Astros See Minor League Titles Pay Dividends

No matter how many dogpiles and post-game celebrations you are a part of, you never really plan what to do.

Baseball America

Astros Promote Quinton McCracken To Director Of Player Personnel

The Astros announced promotions of seven members of their baseball operations staff Monday, including Quinton McCracken as director of player personnel, Brandon Taubman as director of baseball operations and Allen Rowin as director of Minor League operations.

Houston Official Site

Quinton McCracken Enjoyed Interviewing Process In Red Sox GM Search

Quinton McCracken took the modest route Friday, saying he’d like to keep his options open when asked if he’d like to be a general manager someday. The man who interviewed him for that job in Boston recently was more firm.

Houston Chronicle

Red Sox To Interview Quinton McCracken For GM Position

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Licey Executives Visited Teams In Florida

It warm contacts with executives and leaders of major league teams, as well as veterans and young players belonging to the Licey Tigers, resulted Travel general manager Manny Acta for spring training camps in Florida.  (Translated)

LIDOM Official Site

Astros Turn To Charlie Gonzalez

The Astros haven’t hired a replacement for Dave Post, who was the Astros’ amateur national crosschecker until the Padres hired him to be a special assistant in September, and likely won’t make such a hire this year.

Ultimate Astros

Classic Player Profiles: Mike Difelice

D Rays Bay

Brent Strom Setting The Standards For Astros Pitchers At All levels

Only two days after his 66th birthday, Astros pitching coach Brent Strom was back in Houston last week. He spent two days in meetings with the Astros’ front office preparing for 2015 and way beyond.

Ultimate Astros

Keith Bodie Confirms He's Out As Double-A Corpus Christi Manager

Keith Bodie’s first year in the Astros system was 1980, when the Mets traded him to the Astros for catcher Reggie Baldwin. Bodie started his coaching career in the Astros system, left and came back again, managing at Class AA Corpus Christi for the last three seasons.

Ultimate Astros

Draft Hopefuls Put On Display For Astros

For 20 players hoping to be drafted by the Astros this week, there couldn’t have been a much better opportunity to be seen in person than Monday.

Ultimate Astros

Across The Astros Board: An Interview With Mike Elias, Director Of Amateur Scouting (Part Two of Two)

Edward S. Garza continues his interview with an engineer of the Astros' future, Mike Elias.

The Crawfish Boxes

Oklahoma City Ditches 'Piggy Back Starter' Experiment

The Houston Astros' eight-man rotation experiment has ended at the Triple-A level.

News OK

Astros Major & Minor League Coaches Swap Roles Friday

The Astros swapped their coaching staffs for Friday's game against the Cardinals, with the Major League coaches working a Minor League game on the back fields and the coaches from Double-A Corpus Christi, Class A Lexington and Class A Quad Cities working the Major League game against St. Louis. The Triple-A staff has been in Major League camp for most of the spring.

Houston Official Site

Cardinals Non-Roster Invitees: An Update

With the recent addition of three minor leaguers, Shaun Garceau, Katsuhiko Maekawa and Brad Furnish, the number of non-roster invitees (NRIs) set to arrive at the St. Louis Cardinals spring training camp this weekend has grown to 23.

The Cardinal Nation