Category: Dan Peschong
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Astros’ off-season: Doing the math

The Astros will have to set their 40-man roster sometime in mid-November before the Rule 5 draft.
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Chipalatta Awards: 2024 Season

Your faithful servant knows that in general the most critical thing for the fans is that the Astros did not make it to at least the ALCS for the first time since 2016. But it is worth looking at the individual performances for a team that rallied from the depths of a bad start to…
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Astros off-season: Different lines of attack

Dana Brown and the powers that be (and wouldn’t we all love to see how that decision tree works) have a lot of work to do this off-season….or not. Today, we will look at the Astros and three different lines of attack available for their off-season.
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The Fat Lady Sang: Now it’s time to take inventory — Manager, coaches, front office

Our last two posts covered the current status on the Astros’ positional players The Fat Lady sang: Now, It’s time to take inventory – The position players – ALL THINGS ASTROS (chipalatta.com) followed by a look at the Astros’ pitchers The Fat Lady sang: Now it’s time to take inventory – The pitchers – ALL…
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The Fat Lady sang: Now it’s time to take inventory – The pitchers

This took a little while to compile, but hopefully, it will be worth it as we examine what the Astros have or may have in 2025.
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The Fat Lady sang: Now, It’s time to take inventory – The position players

The fans of the Astros knew this day would come, and this seemed like the season in which this would happen. The Astros will not win a playoff series for the eighth year in a row. They will not make it to at least the ALCS for the eighth year in a row. They will…
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Astros 2024: The Wild Card matchup

It is “ifs and buts” time for your humble scribing servant. If….the Astros had started a mediocre 13-13 instead of a miserable 7-19, would they have avoided the Wild Card altogether? Mathematically, that six-game difference would have launched the Astros into the top two bye spots and into a tie for the top spot in…

