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Astros 2023: Weird stats in mid-June
Baseball has always been an odd statistical sport. In basketball, a 20-point, eight-rebound kind of guy (if he is uninjured) is not going to be sitting at 10 pts/4 rebounds per game after a couple months of games. An uninjured QB in the NFL is not going to average 80 yds per game passing (not…
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Astros 2023 – Is the Inevitable Happening?
A friend of the blog, Steven, had quite a long comment in our last post and a piece of it was as follows: “The Astros have to be the luckiest franchise in baseball. An architect came to town in 2011. He drafted pretty well, he went after particular kinds of hitters, and he brought the…
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Astros end-of-week multiple choice quiz
This has always been an interesting and popular feature of the blog because it includes opinions from our always interesting and sometimes popular commenters.
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Forrest, Kyle and other matters
– The news that Forrest Whitley is out (again) with a lat strain for the next three or four months is just the latest in a series of frustrating misses for the no-longer-so-young, no longer-so-top Astros’ prospect.
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ChipalattAwards for May
Looking at the Astros’ performance in May, it is pretty obvious that their 17-10 performance was driven by mostly strong pitching performances with a few (too few?) good performances on the hitting side.
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Memorial Day Thoughts and Astros 2023
Before we wander off to the unimportant point of this sports post, I want to pay my deepest respect to Leroy Klug, a PFC with the USMC, who died when his plane crashed on December 3, 1943. He was the gunner in an Avenger that went down in the Solomon Islands. He was my great…
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Astros 2023: 3 reasons to be encouraged or concerned
I often hark back to something Mrs. Dan P told me about her youth. Her dad would talk to her about this or the other thing to keep communications connected with her as a normal teen girl (crazy with hormones, of course). And she would tell him to not be worried about her, and he…
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Dusty – Hey, OG What Are You Thinking?
I have a few things to say before we get into the meat of this post.
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