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2019 Astros: The most indispensable player
In a full disclosure statement from this blog – the idea for this post came from elsewhere.
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A few Astro questions on a dreary Saturday
It is another dreary Saturday in Houston as it feels like we can’t string more than one sunny day in a row into our weather forecast. Perhaps the beginning of the baseball season, still about three weeks away will bring a cure to the weather blahs as well as the baseball blahs.
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Astros 2018 vs. 2017: Lineup pluses and minuses
The Astros had the best offense in the majors in 2017 and while their pitching soared to the top in 2018, their offense sank back towards the pack due to injuries and some lesser performances.
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An early look at the Astros’ Plan B’s
In 2017, the Astros Championship year, Carlos Correa, George Springer, Charlie Morton, Dallas Keuchel, Collin McHugh, and Lance McCullers missed significant time for the Astros. For players, we will say significant is at least 20-25 games (5 or more starts for starters).
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Astros 2019: About that fifth starting spot
The Astros knew heading into 2019 that decisions about the pitching rotation could be the most critical to their success this season and heading into the future.
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Astros 2019: Early spring training thoughts
Spring Training can be a little bit of a let down in the blog writing world. You bop around for a few months trying to stretch from the playoffs (if your team is lucky) to the start of spring training, throwing off every speculative non-story subject you can think of just waiting for ST to…
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