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Justin Verlander: Behind the curtain of a pitching genius
A recent article by Brian McTaggart, who is an actual fine writing baseball journalist in a world of junk writers, included a fascinating look at the Astros’ ace, Justin Verlander.
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The 60-game schedule is most important to…
For some of the Astros, the 60-game regular season in 2020 is not that important to their career arc. Main players like Justin Verlander, Jose Altuve, Zack Greinke, Alex Bregman, Ryan Pressly are established major leaguers who are signed beyond 2020 and really have nothing to prove. Yes, they want to continue to perform well,…
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Astros 2020: Early summer camp stuff
Time for true confessions here. The only way to write about Astros’ Summer camp “stuff” is to piggyback off of things that others have written. Obviously, even in the best of times, training camp writing is based on reading what the writers on hand at the camp are writing about and looking at box scores…
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2020 Astros “spring” training begins again
Can you remember way back to March 12 of this year? Yes, I know that seems like a galaxy far, far away at this point. That date was the last day of MLB Spring Training games before baseball pulled the plug on itself.
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The back end of the Astros’ 60-man pool
The Astros announced their 60-man pool on Sunday night, containing 56 players they intend to pull from during this unusual season, plus room for four additions.
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Astros 2020: What we are looking for
There are a lot of things that will happen in the 2020 baseball season that none of us has seen before and even four months ago could not have imagined ever happening: A regular season consisting of only 60 games. A regular season where your American League team will play more National League teams (5)…
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How to survive a 60-game season
Pal of the blog – old pro – had suggested writing a post about how teams might address this shortened season. The thought here was to wait until it appeared that a season might actually occur before writing about this. So, here you go.
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One Dad
This October 1 my dad, Don Peschong, will be gone from this earth for 19 long years. In honor of him on this Father’s Day weekend and in honor of all the dads out there, I would like to post parts of the eulogy I gave back then.
