Category: Astros
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Astros 2024: What can they do?
Hopefully, you folks haven’t despaired over my lack of posts this week. Along with having a crazy schedule at work, I’ve been a bit of a dry-hole this week. This task of figuring out what the team could do may not have been the best theme to choose when I was struggling. Anyway – here…
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Astros 2024: YIE morphs Into INSE
As Sarge, a friend of the blog, pointed out, the Astros are now past the 20% pole and continuing to scuffle after dropping the last two games of the Mariner series.
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ChipalattAwards for Mapril
Well, these awards are mostly for April, but the team did start with 4 losses against the Yankees in March, so this is a look at who has earned awards for the Mapril combo. The team ended April at a miserable 10-19 and last place in the AL West.
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Astros 2024: You have 3 wishes
Growing up, I was kind of confused about this Genie (or Jeannie) in a bottle thing. If you watched the Twilight Zone episode, I Dream of Genie, you knew if you found the special bottle, a genie would appear and grant you three wishes only. On the other hand, if you were an astronaut and…
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The Astros and the Summer of ‘69
Apologies to Bryan Adams and his salute to more than the warm season of 1969. But the recent crash and burn of the Astros here in 2024 has resulted in multiple references to a worse start to an Astros season in a galaxy far, far away.
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Astros’ trading chips: Value, future and more what-ifs
It is way early for this, but let’s play a little what-if….. What if the Astros continue to stink through May and at least part of June? What kind of value do they have in their trading chips for a better future?
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Astros 2024: Off-day gripes
The Astros are taking a well-deserved day off in Chicago on Monday. OK, well-deserved by the fans who have watched about all they can stand in the early season. So, today we will throw out some gripes about our team in the early going.
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Astros ’24: Last place, by the numbers
Hopefully, this post will trigger a complete turnaround by the Astros over the weekend that makes all of this moot. But here is a look at where the Astros are this Friday afternoon before Justin Verlander’s return to the rotation.