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  • How Yordan Alvarez grabbed the DH spot by the throat

    How Yordan Alvarez grabbed the DH spot by the throat

    Though it feels like much longer, the Astros have been required to cover the DH position as an AL team only for the last seven seasons. They have had many people rotate in and out of that spot, but in any one year the most ABs might have been given to Evan Gattis, Carlos “The…

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  • What the Astros’ 2020 lineup might look like

    What the Astros’ 2020 lineup might look like

    No one really knows how the Astros’ lineup might look like in 2020 under new leadership on the bench (Dusty Baker…..ok old new leadership) and behind the scenes with GM James Click.

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  • Top 10 Astros’ trades since 2015

    Top 10 Astros’ trades since 2015

    The 2015 season was the beginning of the Astros on the field Renaissance as it ended a four year period where they had averaged a 58-104 record. In fact, if you take out the very bad 70-92 2014 season, you would have had a putrid 3 seasons where they averaged 54 wins and 108 losses.…

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  • The Minor League Baseball Conundrum

    Minor league baseball is different than major league baseball in more ways than just salaries and size of crowds. As discussed in the following article, MiLB relies on having crowds, especially on their weekends and special give-a-way games for their lifeblood.

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  • Weekend Astros’ stuff

    This is one of those scattershot posts that come to mind as we continue to try and fill the seemingly eternal vacuum of time and lack of real baseball news. So without further delay, let’s talk about “stuff”.

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  • Sox Covergate: Astros’ fans get riled up again

    Right now I am not sure if I am more like Joe Pesci in Home Alone or Darren McGavin in A Christmas Story. All I know is that I want to cuss up a storm like both of those gentlemen did in those two movies without actually saying the words I am thinking. As Ralphie…

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