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Astros pick up option on manager Cooper (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

The Houston Astros on Saturday have exercised the option on manager Cecil Cooper's contract for 2010. The Astros are off to a 3-7 start but general manager Ed Wade said picking up the option year was "a formality as far as I was concerned." "Coop and I talked about it a little bit in spring training but things sort of ran away from us then.