Astros Pick Brad Mills as New Manager Sportsbooks Online

Mills has been a Boston Red Sox bench coach under Terry Francona for the past six years. The Astros were a major bust in offshore sportsbook odds this past season so a change was definitely needed.

Sportsbooks online stats indicate that Mills has managed for 11 seasons in the minors but this will be his first shot in the Major Leagues. Mills managed for the Cubs, Rockies and Dodgers minor league affiliates. He takes over in Houston for the fired Cecil Cooper. Dave Clark was the interim manager for the Astros late in the season but it didn’t matter as they still lost in sportsbooks online results. Clark did interview for the job for next season but was not the main choice of management. The team would have liked to have hired Manny Acta but the Cleveland Indians beat them to it as they hired him over the weekend.

Houston has not been very good team for sportsbooks online the past couple of seasons so Mills has his work cut out for him. The Astros went to the World Series back in 2005 but have had two losing seasons at the offshore sportsbook in the four years since that time. Mills is the fourth manager hired since the middle of the 2004 sportsbooks online season of baseball.

Last season Houston was actually Houston was 49-46 on July 22 as sportsbooks online results had it. They were just one game out of first place in the National League Central. Things looked promising in sportsbooks online for the Astros but they lost 42 of their last 67 games.

Sportsbooks online had Houston pitcher Roy Oswalt having an injury-plagued season. He won only eight games last year and finished with a career-high 4.12 ERA as offshore sportsbook numbers had it. The rest of the starting rotation was weak other than Wandy Rodriguez who could make a mark versus offshore sportsbook odds. Mike Hampton and Russ Ortiz were busts as sportsbooks online stats showed. The offense was no better as they ranked 27th in runs scored (3.97 per game). Other than Michael Bourn and Carlos Lee, the offense was weak. Lance Berkman had some of the worst numbers of his career as sportsbooks online stats showed. Miguel Tejada started strong but was terrible down the stretch.

Sportsbooks online info had the Astros interviewing ten candidates for the job before offering it to Acta who went with Cleveland instead. They then chose Mills over Clark in the final decision.