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  • Random Astros’ thoughts in the middle of spring training

    Random Astros’ thoughts in the middle of spring training

    Just some random thoughts in the middle of the Astros 2016 Spring Training…. The shoulder soreness reported on young Lance McCullers Jr. forces one’s mind immediately to the big innings increase his 21 year old arm experienced last season. Is his soreness due to overwork in 2015 or just a little early ST problem? The…

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  • Astros 2016 spring training: Who really has a shot?

    Astros 2016 spring training: Who really has a shot?

    The Astros have gotten off to a strong 6-2 start in games that don’t matter and so far in the 2016 Spring Training season they have utilized 33 position players and a whopping 29 pitchers. That is great, except for the probability that the team will break camp with 13 position players and 12 pitchers. A…

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  • Astros 2016: Back to the future with projections

    Predicting anything is a very inexact science, which is why Biff became a Gazillionaire in Back to the Future Part II by taking a sports almanac from the future back to 1955. One web site has compiled what they call a consensus of seven different sports mystics predicting what MLB hitters and pitchers will produce…

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  • Astros WTSWTM: Early spring training edition

    It is not surprising that spring training is a prime time for baseball quotes as this is a time of speculation and anticipation and lots of discussion. Of course being baseball-speak, the speakers often don’t say exactly what they mean, which brings us to the newest edition of WTSWTM (What They Said What They Meant), where…

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  • Why Mike Fiers matters to Houston; why Singleton’s weight does not

    So, I was reliving some glory from 2015 over the last few days, watching snippets from games. And I watched some of the post-game interviews after Mike Fiers‘ no-hitter. You remember that, right? Aug. 21, Fiers walks a lone batter in each of the first three innings, then just takes over, leaving the Dodgers scratching…

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  • What a difference a year — or two — makes for Astros

    What a difference a year — or two — makes for Astros

    So, right now we’re all looking over the National League, trying to figure out who the Astros will play in the World Series and checking Trip Advisor to get an early look at hotel prices in San Francisco, New York and Chicago (just kidding) for late October. Yeah, the times they are a changin’. I…

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