The Astros are a few games into their 2018 Spring Training regimen and on paper (and this is more than what dogs do to paper) they have the deepest and best team they have ever taken to ST.  Listening to and reading a number of stories it would seem that the only decisions to be…

Superstition is sewn into the tapestry of baseball as deeply as hot dogs and mascot races. Which is to say that it is part and parcel of baseball, but in many ways a side-show to the real thing.

Since we have some of the best and smartest readers in the world (if you were dumb you would be somewhere else), we here at chipalatta are always interested in your opinions. Today, let’s play a quick game of Whatcha Think……

The whole off-season for Houston Astros fans has add an odd, dream-like feel to it.  After the superior 2017 World Championship season, there have been three plus months that have felt like a sea level denizen being thrust into a life in the mountains. The thin air up here has made us all feel wonderful, but…

Here are a few subjects to toss around as training camp begins to roll ahead……

It is never easy to rank any team from 1 to 25. How do you value every day players vs. starting pitchers vs. relief pitchers? How do you value leadership and dugout presence vs. on the field performance (think Brian McCann)? How do you anticipate how players will react to a different role they may…

It is coming! The start of spring training is nigh as the Astros’ pitchers and catchers report on Tuesday and celebrate Valentine’s Day with their first workout. So here are some random thoughts as the excitement builds.

For the last 56 springs the Astros have headed to various venues in Florida with burning questions about what it would take to be World Champions. OK, a little truth in advertising. For many of those seasons the burning questions were about how to eventually be World Champions and perhaps not be a laughing-stock for…