Author: Dan P
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Free Blog Weekend: What are the chances?
The Friday tradition returns with a Free Blog Weekend where you are free to discuss anything on your mind heading into the final weekend before the All Star break. Of course, you already do an excellent job of keeping the conversation going during the other days of the week, but today you are given permission…..…
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Astros have a handful of successful under achievers
Some times in the world of sports, things do not make sense. The 2015 Astros may be a perfect example of a team that is a true team where the whole is bigger and better than the sum of its individual parts. The Astros’ winning ways and division leading results tend to cloud the fact…
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Astros’ perspective just past the halfway point
Just passed the halfway post the Houston Astros are 48-36, desperately clinging to a three-game lead in the division and wobbling after a series of injuries to the everydays, the bullpen and the rotation culminating in the loss of George Springer, their heart, soul and dance instructor. They are currently on a pace for 92 and…
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The first half: A look back at the Astros’ season to date
The Astros are at the halfway mark of an unexpectedly good season, but again it is only the halfway point and a lot can and will happen between now and October. In 2014, the Blue Jays were ahead in the AL East at mid-season at 45-36, but ended up not only behind the Baltimore Orioles,…
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Would You Rather: Now that you know what you know
Today features a return to that favorite of party games Would You Rather? It is pretty simple: We give you a series of questions and you choose which of two scenarios you would rather. Through your choices it is clear how big an idiot – ahem – what type of life choices you normally make and how good those…
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Way back in March, what did the “experts” think of Astros?
In the field of consulting engineering there is an old joke that goes something like this. An expert is anyone who lives more than 200 miles away, makes twice as much as your own employees do, but knows half as much. And then there are the “experts” who populate the baseball prediction world. The nice…
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The Luhnow drafts: How to build a legacy
A recent New York Times article was entitled “Of All Teams to Hack, Why the Astros?” Most of the speculation wound around Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow, and the Times article highlighted a rather amazing statistic. Luhnow had oversight over the Cardinals’ draft starting in 2005 and in the three drafts between 2005 and 2007,…
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Re-ranking the Astros’ prospects after promotions
The other day one of the many excellent commenters on this blog asked for a re-ranking of the prospects after the recent call-ups. This request from “Tony Eusabio” seemed reasonable, and who could deny the former Astro his request even though he seems to have forgotten how to spell his own name. The self-imposed rules…
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