Category: Dan Peschong
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Astros 2024 – Why We Can’t Get Too Mad
As fans of any team (in this case, the Astros), we tend to follow specific patterns in our thinking and fall into poor habits as fans and human beings. This includes…
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Astros 2024: Talking about options
In many ways, if you consider a baseball season beginning the moment the previous season is in the books, it is a year-long series of options. Starting in the offseason, there are a plethora of options, though the budget often reduces the scope and size of those options. Who do you keep? Who do you…
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Astros 2024: Heading into the home stretch
Six weeks from yesterday is the last game of the season for the Astros. Six weeks can mean a lot of things in a baseball season.
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Astros 2024 – It Takes Three To Tango?
As a friend of the blog, Daveb, pointed out recently, the Astros, since June 18,has turned a 10-game deficit to the Seattle Mariners into a 3-game lead. The Astros have been playing better in the last couple months, but they certainly have been helped by how poorly the M’s have been playing over that time.…
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In Praise of Yainer Diaz
A couple of years ago, we put together the following tome on the 10 greatest trades in Astros history.
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Astros 2024: The offense is wimping out
The Astros expended a lot of energy and had quite a bit of good fortune (they were chasing the equally inept Mariners) while getting back into the AL West pennant race. But lately their failures have revolved around an unexpected area of the team.
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Astros 2024: A message from Chip
Chip Bailey is the founder of the feast around here, and when he speaks out, I listen. He has a lot going on outside of sports these days, so his texts are usually news blips about the Astros with a few cryptic words. But yesterday, he dumped a couple of texts on me that were…
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ChipalattAwards for July
The Astros somehow plowed through all their injury problems to put up their third straight winning month (14-11) in July, bringing them up to a virtual tie with the Seattle Mariners. When you stare at the monthly stats below, it is not really obvious how they did this without Kyle Tucker, Justin Verlander, Luis Garcia,…
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