Category: Astros
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This is WAR!!! Looking at the 2019 Astros
There have been tons of baseball numbers featured since Bill James created the new industry of sabermetrics in the 1970s. One of the harder to understand but heavily used numbers thrown around has been WAR (Wins Above Replacement). In general terms, this is how much value (how many wins) a major league player is worth…
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Astros’ statistical goals delayed by “IT”
Baseball is driven by individual stats. Yes, the idea is to have the best team at the end of the day, but having a bunch of individually excellent players is one of the surest ways to get there. And of course in these unusual times of “IT” everyone’s plans of adding to their well earned…
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How the heck do you price George Springer?
The recent discussions about a possible extension for George Springer obviously lead to the questions – how much and how long? All sorts of thoughts go through your head in trying to figure out Springer’s value.
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Alex Bregman’s career arc is following who?
Caught between the overall brilliance of Jose Altuve and the meteoric appearance of Yordan Alvarez, the terrific start to Alex Bregman‘s career sometimes gets overlooked. His slow starts to each season, his sometimes childish Twitter throwdowns with other players and his over the top posing and antics after launching home runs take the spotlight off…
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How Yordan Alvarez grabbed the DH spot by the throat
Though it feels like much longer, the Astros have been required to cover the DH position as an AL team only for the last seven seasons. They have had many people rotate in and out of that spot, but in any one year the most ABs might have been given to Evan Gattis, Carlos “The…
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What the Astros’ 2020 lineup might look like
No one really knows how the Astros’ lineup might look like in 2020 under new leadership on the bench (Dusty Baker…..ok old new leadership) and behind the scenes with GM James Click.
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Top 10 Astros’ trades since 2015
The 2015 season was the beginning of the Astros on the field Renaissance as it ended a four year period where they had averaged a 58-104 record. In fact, if you take out the very bad 70-92 2014 season, you would have had a putrid 3 seasons where they averaged 54 wins and 108 losses.…
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