“IT” will be brought up this season. But it feels like when it does, it will be with a more forced tone.
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... from their performances, weighed heavily on many of the players. So, as the Astros start working through the early days of Spring Training, how many other thin ...
Every season, every team has an ever-morphing set of decisions to make season to season. And so it is with the Astros as they come off the oddest year in baseball history. Some thoughts on some pri…
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... almost as many iterations as there were games. But in general, how will the Astros handle losing their long time leadoff hitter George Springer? Will it be sta ...
It is a little bit of a trick in the title as the person we are talking about has never played for the Astros. He did play the game, pitching in 100 major league games in the 1970s, starting 75 of …
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... n 2021 and his name is Brent Strom. He was an interim pitching coach for the Astros in 1996, but he has made his reputation in his second shot with the club bet ...
Even with George Springer gone to the Blue Jays and Justin Verlander gone to Tommy John Rehab Land, the 2021 Astros have a lot of talent on that roster. Whether that talent shows itself like it did…
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... Zack Greinke. Even though he had a bit of a down in 2020, he is overall the Astros top starting pitcher and the most likely to put in close to a full season as ...
Good friend and loyal commenter of the blog, Old Pro had an interesting comment that I had been thinking about ever since I saw the same information earlier in the week…
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... Of course watching the actual games in 2020, the Astros batting woes seemed mostly self-inflicted and possibly as much mental as phy ...
It is tough to picture the word spring merging with the fact that here in the Houston area it will hit 12 degrees this Monday. (And for my metric friends that is in Fahrenheit, not Celsius). We are…
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... ight be a little over the top. The expectation is that the moves made by the Astros front office to bolster the bullpen, the signings of Pedro Baez, Ryne Stanek ...
In the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons there was quite a bit of talk about the Astros’ untouchables as the team put together big-time trades for Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole and Zack Greinke res…
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... Cristian Javier. Javier flew up through the minors culminating in being the Astros’ Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2019. He then jumped to the majors with ...
This is really a post about GM James Click and how he has addressed the Astros needs heading into Spring Training. Reading the tea leaves, it seems likely the Astros are done making moves this off-…
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... have this veteran in 2022 when Maldonado becomes a free agent. Grade. B- The Astros are in better shape this season at catcher than they were last year, but not ...
In a little follow up to the last post, let’s take a quick look at three players, two who have turned into valuable ballplayers after leaving the organization and one who continued his excell…
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... t 15-3 with a 3.13 ERA and becoming an All Star. We do not know how hard the Astros went after Morton when he became a free agent after 2018. It is known that i ...
I received an email from the blog founder, Chip Bailey, who had some brainstorms on posts, but no time to write them and passed a few ideas to me. Being the off-season and being that the AstrosR…
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... South Carolina. He turned down Division 1 football scholarships to join the Astros’ organization. Matt Dominguez. Unlike the two gentlemen above, Dominguez end ...
The knee jerk reaction here is that the Astros contended in 2020 and came within one final rally of going to the World Series. But in reality, the Astros snuck into the last playoff spot in a field…
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... role. Framber Valdez was fighting for any spot in the bullpen but became the Astros top starter. Cristian Javier thought he would be at one of the “other” camps ...
The natural thought for Astro fans heading into 2021 is to be concerned about the team’s outfield and relief pitching. In the outfield, three of the four main outfielders headed into free age…
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... r league innings in 2018 and 113.2 in 2019 before last season’s call-up. The Astros should be careful with this special pitcher who showed in 2020 why he was th ...
Apologies to Stephen Sondheim, but as much as he may have loved George Seurat’s paintings, that is how much we will all miss the heart of our Astros, George Springer.
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... t was written about 2 years later than it might have been scribed. Might the Astros have extended him heading into 2019, if he had been eligible for free agency ...
After a relatively quiet off-season for the Astros with the signing of a couple of smaller name relievers, Ryne Stanek and Pedro Baez, being the early highlight, things have picked up since the ons…
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... the one he so ably fulfilled in 2019 and 2020. The Astros traded Cionel Perez to the Reds for minor league catcher Luke Berryhill, aga ...
