One of the points of discussion for the Astros entering the 2021 season is that at least on paper they have a set 5 man rotation based on the 2020 stretch run and the playoffs. Zack Greinke, Lance McCullers Jr., Framber Valdez, Cristian Javier and Jose Urquidy may not have the star power that some…

Often the baseball Winter Meetings in the past have been a nice kickoff to the offseason, a place where the GMs of the teams get to meet face to face and trade players over shrimp cocktail and Heinekens at the bar. (It is obvious this writer has never attended the meetings or the after meeting…

The 2020 regular season was a downer for the Astros, but due to an expanded playoff, they were able to sneak into the postseason and make some noise. But even with that, it is impossible not to stare back at those 60 game regular stats and say there are some areas where the 2021 Astros…

Astro fandom was nudged on Tuesday with news from Ken Rosenthal that the Astros were potentially looking into trading Carlos Correa, since they did not think they could re-sign him. This, later on, morphed into a bit of a non-story from Rosenthal that the Astros were not in active conversations on trading Correa.

Right now we really don’t know what 2021 will bring after a 2020 that brought us tremendous pain in and out of the sports world. Will a vaccine knock COVID down from a pandemic to an annoying flu status? Will herd immunity bring us to a point where enough of us have antibodies that it…

The last few weeks have brought a few items to the table relative to “IT”. In case you have been held in a foreign prison or are at an age where the memory is not so great – this is what “IT” is.