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Dusty Baker: The whys and why nots
It seems like it is time to put together one of those why/why-not sets of reasons for firing Dusty’s butt or letting him stay. This topic is roiling to the top of the pot with so much of the recent criticism of the team gathering around Baker and the decisions he has made or not…
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Astros need help, but where?
Anyone watching the Astros stumblebum along through their recent 3-10 stretch heading into Tuesday’s games would be: a) Surprised they still are in a decent playoff position as they sit in the last playoff spot but only a game and a half out of the first one. We will ignore their deficit in the AL…
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Framber Valdez Sues for Non-Support (Well He Could)
It is a tradition as old as baseball. There always seems to be at least one pitcher on the staff, who just does not get the run support and/or bullpen support it takes to have a top notch winning percentage. One of the classic examples here in Houston was 1987 Nolan Ryan, who led the…
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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.
