They watched his workouts and they?ll be watching his start tomorrow night, and today Astros owner Jim Crane said that, assuming things go well, he?d be totally open to Roger Clemens pitching for the Astros this season:
?If it goes alright and he comes to us, we?ll talk to baseball about it at length,? Crane said in an interview with FOX 26 Sports.
?The only thing we don?t want to do is make it a publicity stunt. If we did it, I want to try and take it and turn it into a positive, which would be Roger?s doing it for the good of baseball. The extra proceeds on the game might go to the (Astros?) community charity deal to build (baseball) fields, do something positive out of it.?
He said that he didn?t want to do it just for the extra gate, which is admirable. ?That said, I think Clemens would have to be extremely dominant from a scouting perspective tomorrow night, not just from a box score perspective, for the Astros to seriously consider it. Because these will be independent ball guys he?s facing and even a 25% Roger Clemens should be able to do well against them. ?For this to not be a farce, he has to have good velocity and command.
If they went forward with it, I also hope that Houston wouldn?t use him in a game that mattered. Sure, the Astros season is meaningless at this point, but they play the Giants, Reds, Pirates and Cardinals at home before the season is over, and all of those teams are in playoff fights. Really, the only time when it would not make a big difference is for the Cubs series September 10-12 and the Phillies series September 13-16.
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