Category: Astros
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Justin Verlander will be in a potential Astros’ playoff rotation…But should he?
Note – I wrote most of this before Verlander’s recent loss – so it is not based on that outing. First, here is a statement of fact.
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ChipalattAwards for August 2024
Pitching. Pitching. Pitching. The Astros went 18-10 in August. Despite playing three more games than in April, when they were 10-15, the Astros scored fewer runs in August (119 runs) than in April (121) in a month when they floundered. And this was due to a historically great month of pitching.
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Astros 2024: This day in the Renaissance Era
As our friends with Monty Python might say, now for something completely different.
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Astros 2024 – Why We Can’t Get Too Mad
As fans of any team (in this case, the Astros), we tend to follow specific patterns in our thinking and fall into poor habits as fans and human beings. This includes…
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Astros 2024: Talking about options
In many ways, if you consider a baseball season beginning the moment the previous season is in the books, it is a year-long series of options. Starting in the offseason, there are a plethora of options, though the budget often reduces the scope and size of those options. Who do you keep? Who do you…
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Astros 2024: Heading into the home stretch
Six weeks from yesterday is the last game of the season for the Astros. Six weeks can mean a lot of things in a baseball season.
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Astros 2024 – It Takes Three To Tango?
As a friend of the blog, Daveb, pointed out recently, the Astros, since June 18,has turned a 10-game deficit to the Seattle Mariners into a 3-game lead. The Astros have been playing better in the last couple months, but they certainly have been helped by how poorly the M’s have been playing over that time.…
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Astros 2024: Unloading my “stuff”
I was thinking a bit about the late great George Carlin and his famous monologue about “stuff”.
ALL THINGS ASTROS 