Three words may have guided the Astros leading up to Friday: remember Ronny Torreyes. Giveaways are a good thing for baseball teams when they’re magnetic schedules or Beanie Babies that bring more people to the stadium. They’re bad when they’re talented young players left out for other teams for virtually nothing. The Astros lost three players in the Rule 5 draft last year, two of them permanently inside the division. The Rangers held on to former Astros first-round pick center fielder Delino DeShields Jr. all season in the big leagues as he helped them to a division title. The Mariners kept lefty David Rollins, although Rollins’ situation was unusual because ......
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