Category: Astros
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Halfway there: The defending champ 2018 Astros
Tuesday night’s win by the Astros marked the 81st game and the halfway point in the Astros season.
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Opportunity awaits: Astros need to go full throttle to the All Star break
On June 5, after losing to James Paxton and the Mariners were 37-25, the Astros were two games back in the division behind Seattle, and 5 1/2 games back of the Red Sox for the best record in the majors. For perspective, 37-25 is on pace for a 97 win season, which would tie for the Astros’…
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Questions to chew on with the first place Astros
There is a lot less than usual to complain about with the Astros right now, so here are just some random questions to chew on and/or ponder.
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Top 30 Astro moves under GM Jeff Luhnow
This week the Astros locked up GM Jeff Luhnow through the year 2023 and gave him a promotion and title of President of Baseball Operations.
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Seattle M’s: “Who are those guys?’
In the seminal buddies film (buddies who are 1970’s anti-heroes and – spoiler alert – headed for a sad ending) “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, Butch and the Kid are pursued incessantly by a mystery posse. They break away from the rest of their gang, try to lose the posse by walking in a…
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Where have all the flowers gone? A look at the Astros’ pitching prospects
A few questions keep coming up about the Houston Astros. Does the current front office of the Astros’ have a weakness relative to developing pitching talent? Does their minor league tandem method fail to nurture major league starters? Can they even develop bullpen parts?
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Can fans accept Dallas Keuchel as Astros’ #5 starter?
Dallas Keuchel is not performing like the 2015 Cy Young DK or even the 2017 DK, where he was brilliant when healthy. After a particularly bumpy three starts in a row where his ERA has ballooned from a very good 3.39 to a below average 4.45, folks are wanting something done, but are unsure what…
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Through the looking glass: What’s left is right, what’s right is left for Astros
Old school baseball fans recently have had to throw away ideas that had been carved in stone over many years of baseball watching, but blasted to bits by technological dynamite in this new nerd world order. Stealing bases? Not an efficient way of scoring runs. Bunting? Fuggeddaboutit. Placing extra fielders on one side of the field…
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