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The 2020 ChipalattAwards
It has taken a while for your loyal scribe to get around to giving awards for a season that was less than 40% long. It is not that folks don’t deserve to be recognized, but like everything else this season it is hard to get inspired to do anything. Anyways without further waffling and delay,…
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Freezing the 40-man roster
Next week on November 20, all major league teams have to set up their 40-man rosters and freeze them before the Rule 5 draft on December 10.
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10 random questions for Astros’ fans
Your faithful writer feels like (shaving cream), so this may not be my best effort, but at least it will give my faithful readers something to chew on.
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Farewell to Tommy and Eddie
In this terrible, terrible year we will stray a bit from the normal baseball thread today.
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If George has played his last game for the Astros…
Here is a post that hopefully becomes moot. Hopefully, the market is not red hot for an over 30 y.o. George Springer. Hopefully, George holds no ill will towards the Astros for artificially holding him in the minors when their team was hopelessly bad and cost him millions in pay and an earlier shot at…
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Dan P Gets Interviewed Again
It has been awhile, but Dan P is ready to address questions from his favorite interviewer….Dan P.
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Offseason decisions for Astros and James Click
Every off season begins with a laundry list of decisions to be made by the front office on how the next season’s team (and onward) will be built. We have seen Jeff Luhnow progress from long term building during the dark days of 2011 to 2014 to short term “win now” decisions during the halcyon…
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In praise of Little Joe
During the playoffs, baseball lost a giant of a small man in Hall of Famer Joe Morgan. He was the best second baseman the Astros had until Craig Biggio appeared and might have turned into their greatest ever except for THE TRADE.
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