He'll be the first in a long, long line to do that to Houston this year. That is true. The Pirates are batting Lyle Overbay clean up and the Astros are batting Bill Hall 5th. :? Don't know why they don't have Alvarez batting 4th. Pirates should be trying to get Walker, McCutchen and Alvarez as many ab's as possible. The Pirates seem to be collecting a lot of really talented guys now that they are willing to spend in the draft. Yeah, they are slowly but surely turning things around. They really need some of their pitching prospects to turn out and become #1, or 2 types in order to take that next step.