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The one thing that might derail an eighth straight ALCS appearance for the Astros
Ok, truth in advertising, this one thing is really one area of the team, not just one player. And that one area is the starting pitching.
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Putting Alex Bregman in perspective
All the recent talk about the Astros saying they will tender an extension offer to Kyle Tucker and Alex Bregman has led to discussions about possibly letting Breggy follow the free agent paths of Gerrit Cole, George Springer, Charlie Morton, Carlos Correa and Justin Verlander (with JV bouncing back at the trade deadline).
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Astros’ 2024 Offense: Addition by addition (And a little subtraction)
In the early days of the Astros’ bottoming out and turning around, a component of the improvement was a bit of addition by subtraction.
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Jose Altuve Forever
It was the summer of 2011, and things were very grim for Astros’ fans. The team was on the way to a club record worst 56-106 record, which would be followed by club worst 55-107 and 51-111 seasons. In the middle of despair, the team jumped three players from AA to the big club, JD…
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Astros 2024: What about Ryan Pressly?
Since Josh Hader signed his 5-year/ $95 million free agent contract, we have not really heard from the closer emeritus Ryan Pressly.
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ZiPS projections for the 2024 Astros
In one of those self-assignments, your loyal writer spent a bit of time comparing what most of the main Astros did in 2023 vs. what the ZiPS projections on Fangraphs say they will do in 2024.
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Joe Espada: 5 focus areas
New Astros manager Joe Espada has a wide and varied background in baseball that leads to doing almost everything but managing teams. He was both a college and a minor league player, spending most of his time in the minors with Oakland, but also playing for St. Louis, Colorado, Florida, Kansas City, Texas and Tampa…
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A couple Astros’ thoughts: Billy Wags and LMJ
Billy Wagner Billy Wagner falling five votes short of the Hall of Fame was a bummer, but not as big of a bummer as when Craig Biggio fell two votes short in January 2014. Here is a doubleheader column by Brian Todd and me when that happened.
