Category: Dan Peschong
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Astros: What happens after 2022?
This post is based on a comment from friend of the blog, Zanuda, who was speculating about how the Astros might address a couple of the spots coming off the books after the 2022 season.
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2 years on: Looking back at the Luhnow/Hinch replacements
This week marked the second anniversary of the firings of Astros’ manager A.J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow for their acts of commission and/or omission related to “IT”. To those new to the blog “IT” is our shorthand for the cheating scandal that tainted the 2017 championship and hacked off the long-suffering Astro fans…
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Top 20 recent acquisitions for the Astros
In the last post, we compiled a list of the Top 10 Astros developed internally during their recent Renaissance.
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The Astros’ self-development Top 10
Today’s post emerged from a bit of exercise your loyal writer assigned himself. In this new era of Astros’ baseball — let’s say since the beginning of the deep, dark bottom in 2011 — who are the best players that the team developed itself?
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Recent major league debuts for the Astros
Normally, when one thinks about teams debuting prospects at the major league level, the thought is that having a lot of debuts is a sign of a rebuild or low performing team. Now truthfully, the Astros did struggle in 2020 due primarily to injuries. Still, the bottom line is the last couple of seasons have…
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2021 Astros’ Christmas wishes
First of all, I wish each of you a wonderful Christmas leading to a terrific New Year. And leading into this – what are my top 10 Astro related wishes for 2022?
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Random thoughts in the middle of winter
Today we are facing the depths of winter here in the Houston area. It is a frigid 75 degrees this morning and warming up to a brisk 82 this afternoon. OK, so it is not exactly Christmasy around here, but from a baseball news standpoint, we are definitely in the depths of winter.
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Top 7 concerns for the Astros heading into 2022
This is a presumptive post today. We are presuming that the lockout will end and that the biggest concern isn’t losing a chunk of the season.
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