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A Trip to the Voodoo Priestess: Or Welcome to Kissimmee
It’s spring training. Get a full perspective with new entries from the chipalatta team. Chip Bailey: Lots to watch as Astros’ hope springs eternal. Dan Peschong: Spring training really matters, except when it doesn’t. • •• ••• •• • By Brian Todd The orange rental car pulls off the side of a lonely highway in…
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Spring Training Really Matters, Except When It Doesn’t
It’s spring training. Get a full perspective with new entries from the chipalatta team. Brian Todd: A trip to the voodoo priestess. Chip Bailey: Lots to watch as Astros’ hope springs eternal. • •• ••• •• • By Dan Peschong Baseball fans would seem to be of two minds on Spring Training. Some think it…
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Lots to watch as Astros’ hope springs eternal
It’s spring training, so get the full perspective from the chipalatta team. Dan Peschong: Spring training really matters, except when it doesn’t. Brian Todd: A trip to the voodoo priestess, or welcome to Kissimee. • •• ••• •• • by Chip Bailey As spring training begins, the checklist for the Astros is long and could…
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More thoughts as countdown goes from weeks to just hours
A handful of thoughts as the months and then weeks have now turned to hours before Houston’s pitchers and catchers report to Kissimmee. Didn’t see Brett Wallace clearing waivers and remaining with the Astros’ organization. Just shows how far the former first rounder has fallen. At this point in the spring — and the Astros…
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Astros’ rotation still building a bridge over troubled water
For the Astros’ rotation, the future is not now. Not today anyway. Not April 1. Perhaps later this year. Perhaps 2015. Unfortunately for the team in 2014, the organization is still building a bridge over troubled water. Perhaps the good news is that the shore — read: the promised land — is coming into sight.…
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Riders of the Pine: The 2014 Astros’ Bench
Let’s see, the Astros have 25 roster spots. Five pitchers in the rotation, seven in the bullpen, and eight positions on the field … let’s see, twelve plus eight, carry the one, add that pesky DH … and now we’re at twenty-one. Yep, there’s little room left for the bench. Four spots for all our…
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Weekend thoughts: Challenges, Porter, payroll and depth
A few weekend thoughts while wondering if the Astros are largely finished with roster significant roster movement before pitchers and catchers report next weekend. Depth may be the biggest obstacle or challenge for the Astros in 2014, especially if they are to get that 100-loss monkey off the back of the organization. While there may…
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Sorting out the Astros’ chaff not as easy as prior seasons
Brett Wallace is gone. Long live another former first rounder who didn’t live up to the billing. For the past few seasons and spring trainings, the Astros have carried a lot of chaff, excess weight and “scrubs”, as some of you have called it. Almost by necessity due to the reconstruction blue print, Houston has…
