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  • Verlander, Springer lead ChipalattAwards for Mapril 2019

    Verlander, Springer lead ChipalattAwards for Mapril 2019

    The first ChipalattAwards for 2019 cover the four games played at Tampa in March, plus the 26 games played in April. Thus the Mapril awards. The Astros fell into a 4 1/2 game hole in the division after the first week but ended the month at 18-12 and one game ahead of the Mariners for…

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  • Musings, thoughts and questions about the 2019 Astros

    Musings, thoughts and questions about the 2019 Astros

    Work has been a jumbled mess this week with your faithful servant having to be downtown at 5:30 AM for teleconferences around the world. So my thoughts are jumbled up as much as work, so it is time for a bit of a brain dump.

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  • Did home run madness screw up Jose Altuve?

    Did home run madness screw up Jose Altuve?

    No one could blame Houston Astros’ fans if they felt a little off balance Tuesday. After Monday night’s 0-for-4, Jose Altuve is hitting .248 on the season. If that seems a bit unusual, it is. Working backwards from 2018 back to 2011, Jose’s BA after 29 games played has been .351, .297, .330, .336, .289,…

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  • Revisiting the top 3 teams in the American League

    Revisiting the top 3 teams in the American League

    About three months ago in the depths of the slowest part of the off-season, this blog visited what it had determined to be the top 3 teams in the AL (Red Sox, Yankees, Astros) heading into 2019…..

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  • Astros 2019: The week before and the week ahead

    Astros 2019: The week before and the week ahead

    The week of April 15  through April 21 in review. The Astros roared into this week on a 9 game winning streak that they immediately stretched to a 10 game win streak with a 9-1 bashing of the Oakland A’s, which pulled them into a 1/2 game lead in the division for the first time this season.

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  • Meet the Astros’ new ace Collin McHugh??

    Meet the Astros’ new ace Collin McHugh??

    In 2018, two of the top five pitchers in the American League were the two best pitchers in the Astros’ rotation: Ace 1 Justin Verlander and Ace 2 Gerrit Cole. A half step behind these two lurked Charlie Morton, who would have been the ace on the 12 AL teams not named the Rays, the…

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