# Any Houston Astros experts out there? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 29, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-houston-astros-experts-out-there/654307 "2013-03-29T23:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-houston-astros-experts-out-there/654307/1 "2013-03-29T23:01:04Z")
Looking for some fantasy baseball help. Our keeper league is AL only so the entire roster is available for our upcoming draft. I know nothing!!! Who are the top 10 fantasy players on their roster… in order if it’s not too much trouble? We are a classic 4x4 league. TIA !! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-houston-astros-experts-out-there/654307/2 "2013-03-29T23:58:00Z")
Jose Altuve, 2B is probably the only guy you actively want. He’ll get you a decent average and a lot of stolen bases. 1B/LF Chris Carter will probably get you some home runs. C Jason Castro probably won’t be terrible. If it’s a keeper league, can you draft prospects? If so, Jonathan Singleton is their best hitting prospect and is probably going to be up sometime this season; he’s probably worth picking up if you can keep him on a farm team or something. P Bud Norris will get you a bunch of strikeouts but might also have a crappy ERA; it depends on if/how far he bounces back from last year. Of their other pitchers, Brad Peacock seems to have struck out people at a decent clip in the minors and might be worth a flyer (or might blow up on you completely; he had a 6 ERA in AAA last year). The rest of the pitchers aren’t going to get you a lot of strikeouts and are a pretty uncertain group in general. I don’t even know who the nominal closer is to start the year, but I wouldn’t expect whoever it is to hold the job for long. Top pitching prospect is Jarred Cosart; he’s also expected to be up sometime this year. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-houston-astros-experts-out-there/654307/3 "2013-03-31T13:45:57Z")
Thanks! We had our draft yesterday… Altuve, Carter and Veras were the only players anybody wanted. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-houston-astros-experts-out-there/654307/4 "2013-03-31T17:35:16Z")
Interesting that I don’t see Jarred Cosart listed yet as a placed in the ESPN player universe