Category: Astros
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Astros 2024 – Early Off-season Thoughts

The first few weeks after the end of a baseball season are highlighted more by procedural items (more discussion below) that send players away than actions that add players to your favorite team. On a quiet November afternoon, here are a few thoughts below:
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Astros Top 10 Returning Players

Today, we perform a challenging self-assignment on the blog. We attempt to rank the top 10 Astros returning for the Astros in 2025. Note that due to the current situation, this list does not include Alex Bregman or Yusei Kikuchi. The first is certainly a top-10 player on the team in 2024, and the second is possibly a top-10…
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Lookback at Astros’ 2024: Position by position

Today, we look at how the Astros hitters did at each position in the field or (DH) in the dugout compared to the other teams in the American League.
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Astros’ off-season: You’re GM for a day!

Today, the blog would like the readers to take a shot at being the Astros’ GM for a day. Kind of like what Mr. Trump was saying about what he would do the first 24 hours he was president. If you were given GM Dana Brown’s job (and the free rein that he may or…
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Astros’ off-season: The timeline

In many ways, the Houston Astros off-season began for their fans three weeks ago on the afternoon of October 2 as the team bowed to the Detroit Tigers 5-2 in a 2-0 sweep of the Wild Card. And even though the Astros’ front office is no doubt working their donkeys off right now, the off-season…
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Astros’ off-season: The one thing

Today, we are revisiting a little feature where we look at many of the Astros we expect to see on the roster in 2025 and touch base on the “one thing” that we would like them to work on in the off-season.
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Astros’ off-season: Doing more math

I was taking a look at the Astros payroll on my favorite site that does the math for me….Houston Astros 2025 Financial Summary (spotrac.com)
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Astros’ off-season: Doing the math

The Astros will have to set their 40-man roster sometime in mid-November before the Rule 5 draft.
