Month: July 2020
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Justin Verlander: Behind the curtain of a pitching genius
A recent article by Brian McTaggart, who is an actual fine writing baseball journalist in a world of junk writers, included a fascinating look at the Astros’ ace, Justin Verlander.
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The 60-game schedule is most important to…
For some of the Astros, the 60-game regular season in 2020 is not that important to their career arc. Main players like Justin Verlander, Jose Altuve, Zack Greinke, Alex Bregman, Ryan Pressly are established major leaguers who are signed beyond 2020 and really have nothing to prove. Yes, they want to continue to perform well,…
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Astros 2020: Early summer camp stuff
Time for true confessions here. The only way to write about Astros’ Summer camp “stuff” is to piggyback off of things that others have written. Obviously, even in the best of times, training camp writing is based on reading what the writers on hand at the camp are writing about and looking at box scores…
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2020 Astros “spring” training begins again
Can you remember way back to March 12 of this year? Yes, I know that seems like a galaxy far, far away at this point. That date was the last day of MLB Spring Training games before baseball pulled the plug on itself.
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