[NYY #23]

Former Astros pitcher Luis Varerla came close to being elected to the Hall of Fame, finishing 1% shy with 74% of the votes. Varerla was 189-137 during his career with a 3.43 ERA, and has been dropped from the ballot after ten years.

SP Luis Varerla 74.0 (10th year) Dropped
C Tomás Flores 56.7 (1st year)
CF Grant Murphy 31.6 (6th year)
C José Carlos Escobar 28.6 (4th year)
1B Steve Shepard 21.2 (7th year)
SP Luis Rosas 20.3 (6th year)
SP Juan Gómez 19.0 (2nd year)
CL Johnny Stewart 17.7 (3rd year)
RF Lorenz Claussen 16.5 (2nd year)
RP Don Webb 15.2 (2nd year)
2B Robbie Raines 14.7 (10th year) Dropped
SS Christian Lee 14.3 (6th year)
SP Gabriel Cintrón 13.4 (1st year)
LF Juan González 13.0 (1st year)
SP Dylan Richardson 12.1 (2nd year)
CL Roberto Sandoval 10.4 (7th year)
CL Loren Peters 9.1 (1st year)
SP Pedro León 9.1 (6th year)
2B José Sepúlveda 7.8 (5th year)
2B Pete Woolford 7.8 (3rd year)
C António Tovar 7.4 (2nd year)
CL Sloan Stewart 6.9 (3rd year)
2B Albert Wilcox 6.9 (6th year)
SP José Ledesma 6.1 (2nd year)
RF Jose Cavazos 5.6 (3rd year)
2B Adrian Saucedo 0.9 (2nd year) Dropped
2B Antonio Delgado 0.0 (1st year) Dropped

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In present day Houston we're in the midst of negotiations with three pitchers to join our rotation. I'm hoping to finalize a deal with one of them, and potentially two within the next couple weeks. Of course, I hoped that we'd have already done that, but the negotiations continue to drag on.