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Hang on Sloopy: 10 Reasons to shake the spring training blues
Back in the day, a lot of kids thought that the song by the McCoys was “Hang on Snoopy” (who the heck names their daughter Sloopy anyways). Either way, the sentiment can be applied to the current situation with Astros fandom. The team is struggling a bit the last week or so with starting pitchers getting…
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Astros 2016: Questions, questions and more questions
The Astros are entering the home stretch of a different type of Spring Training in 2016. They are a team with a much bigger and better base and a lot less questions than previous years, which does not mean there are not some questions to be pondered and answered in the next couple weeks. For…
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Astros’ spring training: Surprises thus far?
The Astros are near the halfway point in their 2016 Spring Training and while there have been many things happening as expected, it must be stated that there are a few surprises to date. Some items that may be seen as surprises to this point: The Astros 2015 were led in HRs (27) and RBIs (88)…
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Random Astros’ thoughts in the middle of spring training
Just some random thoughts in the middle of the Astros 2016 Spring Training…. The shoulder soreness reported on young Lance McCullers Jr. forces one’s mind immediately to the big innings increase his 21 year old arm experienced last season. Is his soreness due to overwork in 2015 or just a little early ST problem? The…
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Astros 2016 spring training: Who really has a shot?
The Astros have gotten off to a strong 6-2 start in games that don’t matter and so far in the 2016 Spring Training season they have utilized 33 position players and a whopping 29 pitchers. That is great, except for the probability that the team will break camp with 13 position players and 12 pitchers. A…
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Astros 2016: Back to the future with projections
Predicting anything is a very inexact science, which is why Biff became a Gazillionaire in Back to the Future Part II by taking a sports almanac from the future back to 1955. One web site has compiled what they call a consensus of seven different sports mystics predicting what MLB hitters and pitchers will produce…
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Astros WTSWTM: Early spring training edition
It is not surprising that spring training is a prime time for baseball quotes as this is a time of speculation and anticipation and lots of discussion. Of course being baseball-speak, the speakers often don’t say exactly what they mean, which brings us to the newest edition of WTSWTM (What They Said What They Meant), where…
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Why Mike Fiers matters to Houston; why Singleton’s weight does not
So, I was reliving some glory from 2015 over the last few days, watching snippets from games. And I watched some of the post-game interviews after Mike Fiers‘ no-hitter. You remember that, right? Aug. 21, Fiers walks a lone batter in each of the first three innings, then just takes over, leaving the Dodgers scratching…
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