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A Look At The Choo-less Outfield for 2014 and Beyond
So, let’s talk about that signing that got the Astros Nation (slightly larger than Luxembourg at this point) all atwitter last week. No, I’m not talking about the $3.25 million spent on Jesse Crain. I’m talking about the Rangers’ signing of Shin-Soo Choo. There were two schools of thought on the Astros missing out on…
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Some New Year’s resolutions for Crane, Luhnow and other Astros
We know how New Year’s resolutions work – they are usually very important, very difficult to keep and abandoned faster than a ….New Year’s resolution? So, this year rather than be the source of internal disappointment, I decided to take a different tack and choose resolutions for others. A resolution for Jim Crane . Jim,…
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Yes sir, the Astros should be all in on Tanaka!
If the Astros want teams, players and fans to know they’re serious about building a winner, they should join in the bidding on Masahiro Tanaka. If the Astros want to build a winner using the draft and minor leagues as a foundation and continue to follow the Jeff Luhnow blueprint, they shouldn’t tie up a…
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Special Christmas memories from Dan
by Dan Peschong Over the years I’ve had wonderful and not so wonderful memories at Christmas. I remember being so happy getting an electric train when I was 5 years old and very few things will match the extremely rare Christmas Eve snow in Sugar Land in 2004 – which had us tossing snowballs while…
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As off season turns corner, Astros still have payroll room
The baseball off-season is about to turn the corner. Many general managers, owners and managers will tell you they like to have the bulk of their roster work done by Christmas. For some teams — and I emphasize some — that has happened in 2013. For others like the Astros, some shuffling and rearrangement still…
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Quick Discussion: Buchanan vs. Wojciechowski
by Dan Peschong Weird how potential topics come up for blog postings….this one came up just because of a previous article by Chip on the Rule 5 draft. It bothered me that Jake Buchanan, who I had perceived as having good value to the Astros was not put on the 40 Man Roster and thus…
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Wait, didn’t the Astros and Jose Veras have a “mutual interest”?
Obviously, the Astros didn’t value Jose Veras as much as we may have thought. Veras, who served as Houston’s closer for the first half of last season, signed a one-year deal with the Cubs Tuesday. One year. $4 million. The deal includes a 2015 option for $5.5 million or a $150,000 buyout. A pretty sweet…
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Money changes everything for Astros … well, sort of
by Brian Todd Shin-Soo Choo is still out there. James Loney isn’t. Kendrys Morales is available at a pretty high price. Want another back-end reliever? Jesse Crain and Jose Veras are still looking for a home. All it costs is money. Jim Crane may have told us to pony up our own $10 million last…
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