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  • Astros 2022: Reflection two weeks into a short spring training

    Astros 2022: Reflection two weeks into a short spring training

    Normally teams report to Spring training around the third week of February so that by the time teams are two weeks in, they still have 3 to 4 weeks left in Florida or Arizona. But after the lockout, teams reported right before the Ides of March, and so two weeks in means they only have…

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  • What They Said – What They Meant – James Click Edition

    What They Said – What They Meant – James Click Edition

    It has been quite a while since the last WTSWTM, but a recent article on the Astros’ MLB website by one of the few journalists left in baseball, Brian McTaggart, inspired this post. As you may or may not recall, this is to contrast what the person said vs. what they meant and today, that…

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  • Correa signing tops wild and wooly 24 hours of Houston sports

    Correa signing tops wild and wooly 24 hours of Houston sports

    Two long-awaited actions hung over Houston sports fandom throughout this offseason. One was the eventual dumping of scandal-plagued Texans’ QB Deshaun Watson and the other was the eventual landing spot of Astros’ shortstop Carlos Correa. In retrospect, the scandal attached to Correa’s name is a molehill compared to the mountain looming over Watson for the…

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  • Options for the Astros’ rotation

    Options for the Astros’ rotation

    One of the most prominent question marks heading into 2022 for the Astros is the potential makeup of their starting rotation. It is a conglomeration of what we know and what we don’t know.

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  • The 2022 Astros in fantasy land

    The 2022 Astros in fantasy land

    The other day an article popped up on the mlb.com site that caught this writer’s fancy.

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  • The Lockout Ends: Waiting for the Astros first domino to fall

    The Lockout Ends: Waiting for the Astros first domino to fall

    A few weeks ago, we ran one of our Q/A type posts…. If you thumb down the comments a bit, I answered my own questions. For #3 – when would I bet the lockout would end – I picked March 11 – so I just missed it, though somewhere in the world, it was probably…

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