Category: Astros
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How does this Astros’ rotation stack up?
Again – YIE (Yes It’s Early), but…..this Astros’ starting rotation is already being heralded as an all time great staff. For the purposes of this blog post the task will be narrowed to comparing these five against great Astro rotations of the past. Yes, they might be compared against all-time baseball rotations like the 1954 Cleveland…
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Saturday update: Random Astros’ thoughts
The Astros starting pitching has been insanely good. The offense has been like a giant suddenly awoken. The bullpen is a bit of a lightly tested question mark. But the Astros are a solid 14-7 heading into Saturday night and a lot is right with the baseball world.
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Why it’s way too early to worry, but concern is okay
As your faithful servant is writing this, the Astros are up 1-0 in a West Coast game that will end when I am fast asleep. I have no idea if the Astros will be 12-7 heading into Thursday or 11-8 and frankly I don’t really care. I don’t really care if they are 1-1/2, 2-1/2…
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Astros’ division rival: 2018 Seattle Mariners
It has taken a little while to finish off the Astros’ division rivals, but today we look at the Seattle Mariners heading into 2018.
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Astros’ day off: Good news/bad news
As the Astros return home to warmer climes and a weekend meeting with the struggling Texas Rangers, let’s play a little Good News / Bad News without hometown heroes.
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Random questions at the beginning of the 2018 marathon
YIE (Yes It’s Early) but the Astros reaction to the 2017 World Series championship is about as far from a hangover as possible. A solid 6-1 record has been achieved with top of the heap offense and starting pitching. Not all of the Astros are hitting or pitching at the top but there are so…
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Once around the rotation with the Astros
Yes, Dallas Keuchel did not pitch as well as his compadres in the Astros 2018 five-man rotation. But it was not like his outing was some unmitigated disaster. It is just that in comparison to four very strong outings by the others, his was middle of the road and came on the day his teammates…
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