   Left-handed relief pitcher Buddy Boshers, who posted a 4.56 ERA over 75 games with the Twins the past two seasons, has been claimed off waivers by Houston, the Astros announced Monday.
   Boshers, who signed as a free agent before spring training in 2016, was waived by Minnesota last week in order to clear a roster spot for righthander Addison Reed, who signed a two-year, $16.75 million contract with the Twins.
   Boshers, a 29-year-old Alabama native, started each of the past two seasons with Class AAA Rochester, but in both years wound up spending most of the season in the majors as a situational left-handed specialist.Â
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La Velle E. Neal III has covered baseball for the Star Tribune since 1998 (the post-Knoblauch era). Born and raised in Chicago, he grew up following the White Sox and hating the Cubs. He attended both the University of Illinois and Illinois-Chicago and began his baseball writing career at the Kansas City Star. He can be heard occasionally on KFAN radio, lending his great baseball mind to Paul Allen and other hosts.
Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
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