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Baseball 2025: The idea of other people’s money
Sometimes around here, we look at a potential deal or investment by the Astros, and if it is costly, we say, “No big deal to us – that is Jim Crane’s money.”
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As inspired by Rob Manfred
Like many of my dear readers, I was astounded by the wonderful, inspired, and inspiring idea that MLB Commissioner shared with us this week.
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Astros offseason blues and the one big domino
Let’s face it, compared to playing regular season baseball games almost every day for six months, the off-season is a dead time. On top of this, if you cut the off-season into separate chunks – the period we are in right now – after the teams tendered / not-tendered their arbitration candidates to the end…
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Astros’ off-season multiple choice
Just for fun, or maybe it is for torture, the assignment today is to look at some Astro situations and some potential results and pick which one you like.
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Astros’ tender arbitration offers: What it means
Today’s news said the Astros tendered offers to all their arb-eligible players. An article from mlbtraderumors from October 1 Projected Arbitration Salaries For 2025 – MLB Trade Rumors projected arb numbers for all of baseball, including the following for the Astros.
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Astros’ off-season: Sorting through the non-news of the week
This is the toughest time to write about baseball. How many times can we argue whether giving Alex Bregman eight years / $240 MM – give or take a couple years and $50 MM is a good idea? But a few things are happening, so let’s talk about those.
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The Astros’ ultimate what if?
From an Astros fan’s point of view, there is one “What If” that comes to mind when looking at the Astros’ past, present, and future. No, not “what if” the Astros had not signed Jose Abreu to his three-year contract when his body failed him, though that is a good one.
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Astros’ off-season: Rating the Golden Decade
This is not meant to be a swan song-type post, but there certainly can be an argument that the Championship window that was opened up and propped wide in the last 10 seasons may be closing or certainly is narrower today.
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