Author: Dan P
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Tuesday countdown: Options, decisions abound for 2016 pitching
After so few starting pitching options last off-season — remember Roberto Hernandez and Asher Wojciechowski starting the season (temporarily) in the rotation? — 2016 appears to be a season of almost too many options. Dallas Keuchel, Collin McHugh, Lance McCullers Jr., Vincent Velasquez, Scott Feldman, Scott Kazmir, Mike Fiers, Brett Oberholtzer, Dan Straily, Asher W.,…
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Astros’ season balancing on the edge of a knife
The 2015 Houston Astros season has come down to the nine final games with the Astros falling swiftly in the race for the AL West division lead and on the verge of missing the playoffs all together. What will happen between now and the end of the season? What kind of team will they end…
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Astros 2015 – Kudos to the Grateful Dead
It is time to tip a cap to the seminal jam band, the Grateful Dead, and sing a chorus of “what a long strange trip it’s been”. The Houston Astros 2015 season has been unexpected, exhilarating, maddening, inspired, expired, crazy, and one more time, unexpected. The Astros were not supposed to be here. They were not supposed to…
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September thou art a heartless witch….
The Astros are melting like the Wicked Witch caught in a car wash as the heat of the pennant race is cranked up in the month of September. Heading into Saturday’s games they are 4-12 for the month and except for a miracle last Sunday would be on an eight game losing streak instead of…
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Thoughts after a crazy once in a blue moon win for the Astros
By now it is no secret that the Astros did something incredible on Sunday. They were down three runs in the ninth with two outs and two strikes and no one on base and came back to win 5-3. Normally, I try to avoid using the first person in these posts, but what happened was…
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Perspective tough as Astros stumble down the stretch
It is easy to either panic or get depressed while watching the Houston Astros stumble a bit down the stretch of an unexpected playoff contending season. The obvious holes in the lineup expand to Grand Canyon size under the heat of a pennant race. The manager who has pulled elephants out of his hat, much less…
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This is the time for the 2015 Houston Astros
The kids have done about as good as anyone could expect through 5 months of an approximate 6 month season. Since April 19th they have led or been tied for the lead for 119 of 127 games and they have never been more than 2 games out of first place any time since the beginning…
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2015 matters for Astros: Don’t let it slip way
There are a number of realities facing the 2015 Astros team as it rolls towards the end of the season in the rarefied air of a pennant race. The Astros are a young and inexperienced team. The two teams chasing them down the stretch (the Angels and the Rangers) have nine playoff appearances in the last 10 seasons…
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