Category: Dan Peschong
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Opening Day: The Swami Predicts Astros 2024

We’ve dissected this Astros 2024 team down to the point where it is more mush than solid fiber. Today, I will steal the turban from the Sports Swami himself, Chris Berman, and make some predictions that I hope everyone will forget about by the end of the season.
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Astros 2024: This ain’t easy

A couple days ago, we linked to this article by Brian McTaggart, who is, frankly, about the only writer giving any in-depth views of the Astros these days.
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Astros 2024: What is more likely?

Today, we let our readers be the focal point of the post as we ask you which of these 2024 Astro scenarios is more likely to occur.
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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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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.
