Category: Astros
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Tuesday countdown: Options, decisions abound for 2016 pitching
After so few starting pitching options last off-season — remember Roberto Hernandez and Asher Wojciechowski starting the season (temporarily) in the rotation? — 2016 appears to be a season of almost too many options. Dallas Keuchel, Collin McHugh, Lance McCullers Jr., Vincent Velasquez, Scott Feldman, Scott Kazmir, Mike Fiers, Brett Oberholtzer, Dan Straily, Asher W.,…
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Monday countdown: Carlos Correa and the all-time Astros’ shortstops
The countdown is on. Two series. Six games. One long road trip. As I mentioned yesterday, when the weekend is over, we’ll be discussing rosters, lineups and rotations. Either for the playoffs or for 2016. Each day this week, we’ll come at you with some quick-hitting thoughts, questions or ideas to ponder. Today’s conversation is simple.…
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Sunday update: Astros’ fate, “most important” and the tandems
Two Sundays left in a Astros’ season that has produced the most hope and roller coasters since perhaps the Cardiac Kids’ days in the ’80s. The over-used “most important” phrase has been tagged to every game, every inning, every series, and now, A.J. Hinch says the upcoming road trip is the single most important of the…
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The 2015 Astros’ season begins this weekend
Jim Crane is right. If the Astros do not make the playoffs in 2015, the season will have been a disappointment. Say all you will about the unexpected success. Shout it out loud that 2017 is supposed to the year anyway. Yeah, yeah, the organization is in rebuild mode and 2015 wasn’t supposed to be the…
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Astros’ season balancing on the edge of a knife
The 2015 Houston Astros season has come down to the nine final games with the Astros falling swiftly in the race for the AL West division lead and on the verge of missing the playoffs all together. What will happen between now and the end of the season? What kind of team will they end…
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Astros 2015 – Kudos to the Grateful Dead
It is time to tip a cap to the seminal jam band, the Grateful Dead, and sing a chorus of “what a long strange trip it’s been”. The Houston Astros 2015 season has been unexpected, exhilarating, maddening, inspired, expired, crazy, and one more time, unexpected. The Astros were not supposed to be here. They were not supposed to…
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Sunday update: Are Astros just tiring from a long season?
A few random thoughts this Sunday as the Astros still struggle to reach pre-season goals for the team many thought would do good to hit .500 or just above. Is the team just tired? Several players — including pitchers — have hit career highs in many categories, faced injuries all season or have had inconsistent playing…
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September thou art a heartless witch….
The Astros are melting like the Wicked Witch caught in a car wash as the heat of the pennant race is cranked up in the month of September. Heading into Saturday’s games they are 4-12 for the month and except for a miracle last Sunday would be on an eight game losing streak instead of…
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