Author: Chip Bailey
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Free Blog Weekend: Astros’ future may not be now, but by 2017…
With the discussion about Carlos Correa on Thursday and expectations seemingly on the rise, this Free Blog Weekend, let’s take a look in the future. Obviously, much will change over the next three springs, but even with pieces of the puzzle that are now in place or in the pipeline, the Astros may be setting…
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Looking ahead at Astros 2015: Another season, another stop gap at SS
Chip continues a conversation that has been hashed, rehashed, dissected, buried, raised again and has brought frustration along with many failed solutions in recent years. Shortstop. • •• ••• •• • Adam Everett anyone? While the now-37-year-old Everett brought one of the best gloves in Astros’ history to the six hole, fans lamented the black hole he…
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Are the Astros looking to improve the wrong end of rotation?
Are the Astros looking at the wrong end of the rotation? It’s fair to say there are more in-house solutions for the #5 slot in the rotation than there are for the #1 (or even #2) slot. To be sure, only Scott Feldman, Dallas Keuchel and Collin McHugh can lay any type of claim on…
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Free Blog Weekend: It’s getting crowded in here!
Okay, take a deep breath. Spring training is just a few weeks away and the start of the season is a little over two months from now. Jeff Luhnow has plenty of time to remake the roster. Of course, I say that in jest as Luhnow has performed his magic on the major league roster,…
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Astros 2015: The game has changed
Okay, so who is that guy sitting in the GM chair at Minute Maid Park and what have you done with Jeff Luhnow? If one thing is clear over the past month, the game has changed for the Houston Astros. The tipping point in a transition from rebuilding and reconstructing to win now will be…
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Free Blog Weekend: Wide open free for all Astros’ conversation
After a flurry of inactivity over the past month, the Astros have created a flurry and perhaps even a storm of sorts with one significant move designed to upgrade the team for the here and now instead of the future and then. Indeed, few acquisitions since 2009 have signaled a win-now attitude more than the…
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Conversation starter: Would these guys fit on 2015 Astros?
As many of you know, I consider myself a quality conversation starter. While I often compose entries that are based on opinion, speculation or historical in nature, many entries are designed to either stir the pot of your mind or generate water cooler-like conversation. Today is one of those water cooler conversations. Since the Astros…
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An open letter to Astros’ General Manager Jeff Luhnow
Good morning Mr. Luhnow! I’m writing this morning to thank you for the great job that you have done in the past three years to set the Houston Astros on a course for competitiveness. Prior to your arrival, many fans and others did not even know if there was a plan, much less what that…
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