Tuesday Morning Hot Links

*The Astros made a whole bunch of internal personnel changes yesterday. Notably:

-Quinton McCracken, who was director of player development and also apparently a possible GM candidate, is now Director of Player Personnel.

-Allen Rowin, who was assistant director of player development is now the Director of Minor League Operations

-Brandon Taubman is Director of Baseball Operations

-Mike Fast is Director of Research & Development

-Pete Putila is Assistant Director of Minor League Operations

-Tom Koch-Wiser is Manager of Advance Scouting

-Bill Firkus is Director of Sports Medicine and Performance

Luhnow, on the moves:

This is just sort of a next step, next wave. I challenged every functional leader to…