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About the Astros’ fifth starter
Entering the 2023 season without Lance McCullers Jr., the Astros rotation rolled out like this…..Framber Valdez, Cristian Javier, Jose Urquidy, Luis Garcia, and Hunter Brown, and that was the order they have pitched this season. Based on performance so far, the top three would be Framber Valdez (2-2, 2.25 ERA), Cristian Javier (2-0, 3.21 ERA),…
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Yordan, Pete, Kyle and the rest
I probably need to throw apologies to the late Old Folkie Pete Seeger for the following, because watching Yordan Alvarez on Friday night face another left-handed pitcher in the late innings in a crucial spot and deliver another intracontinental missile to give the Astros the lead brought to mind a song. “Where have all the…
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Astros’ 2023: It’s rarely easy.
It is always the way these things go. Teams get off to great / bad/ meh starts to the season and people are too joyful/ too despairing/ too meh about it all.
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Hunter Brown: The anatomy of a half-inning
Coming off a very disappointing weekend of two crushing losses offsetting a solid win against the Rangers, it would be quite easy to concentrate on only negative questions today.
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Astros’ musings: So far, so meh?
It is often hard to keep a perspective on baseball when you are a fan(atic) about it. We live and die with every twist and turn, every series, every loss, every injury, and every slump. After a so-so 6-7 start, we are about two weeks into the 2023 season, and our emotions have washed us…
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Astros win: Channeling JV and ‘Tuve
Sunday was the kind of game that in 2022, the Astros would have turned to two of their best players, Justin Verlander and Jose Altuve to rescue them.
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YIE: But what does this horseshoe look like?
A little explanation for the uninitiated on the title of this post. YIE – way back at the beginning of the Astros renaissance in 2015, I coined the acronym “YIE” for Yes It’s Early in this post.
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Astros 2023: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
All bows to Charles Dickens, who, unlike your volunteer scribe, was paid by the word, but let’s be honest, a 2-3 start to the season is not the worst of times, especially for the defending World Champions who started last season 7-9 on the way to the crown. But looking at each portion of the…
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