Category: Astros
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Astros’ 2024 Spring Training: Relative concerns
In less than three weeks, on Thursday, March 28, the Astros will start the 2024 season for real against their close and personal friends – the New York Yankees. (My sarcastic font is on the blink again). This Spring Training has flown by, and it really won’t be long before some folks will be packing…
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Do we want to talk about Jeff Luhnow and “IT”?
Way back in early 2020, after the Astros were “punished” for the cheating scandal and before a pandemic from China wiped the Astros off the everyday headlines, we decided to call the scandal “it”. For one, it sure abbreviated typing out Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and other alternates to that every time the subject came up.
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Astros’ sporadic building of starting pitching through the draft
Reading about young Spencer Arrighetti and his hopes and dreams for making an impact to the Astros, brought a number of thoughts to the mind.
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Spring Training Word for the Day – Relax
Sometimes I look at the dates that music came out and go – Huh? Like the single “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood hit the top 40 in 1984. That was 40 years ago. 40 years!!! I keep thinking that is a new song.
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Astros 2024: May the fake games begin
Saturday night, the Astros (or likely a subset from the lower part of the 40-man roster) will face off against their Spring Training park-mates, the Washington Nationals, in the first exhibition game of 2024.
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2024 Astros’ Spring Training Bingo
The beginning of Spring Training has brought the usual litany of quotations from the Astros. The ones you hear every spring reminded me of something.
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The one thing that might derail an eighth straight ALCS appearance for the Astros
Ok, truth in advertising, this one thing is really one area of the team, not just one player. And that one area is the starting pitching.
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Putting Alex Bregman in perspective
All the recent talk about the Astros saying they will tender an extension offer to Kyle Tucker and Alex Bregman has led to discussions about possibly letting Breggy follow the free agent paths of Gerrit Cole, George Springer, Charlie Morton, Carlos Correa and Justin Verlander (with JV bouncing back at the trade deadline).
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