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Free Blog Weekend: Injuries and the Keuchel redux
Time again for a Chipalatta special — the Free Blog Weekend. Our loyal readers can go in any direction you want as long as it has to do with the Astros or baseball and as long as it is fit for our blog family.
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10 reasons the Astros can win it all again in 2019
There is always a mix of over-optimism mixed with down in the dumps pessimism in the springtime for baseball teams.
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2019 Astros: The most indispensable player
In a full disclosure statement from this blog – the idea for this post came from elsewhere.
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A few Astro questions on a dreary Saturday
It is another dreary Saturday in Houston as it feels like we can’t string more than one sunny day in a row into our weather forecast. Perhaps the beginning of the baseball season, still about three weeks away will bring a cure to the weather blahs as well as the baseball blahs.
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Astros 2018 vs. 2017: Lineup pluses and minuses
The Astros had the best offense in the majors in 2017 and while their pitching soared to the top in 2018, their offense sank back towards the pack due to injuries and some lesser performances.
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An early look at the Astros’ Plan B’s
In 2017, the Astros Championship year, Carlos Correa, George Springer, Charlie Morton, Dallas Keuchel, Collin McHugh, and Lance McCullers missed significant time for the Astros. For players, we will say significant is at least 20-25 games (5 or more starts for starters).
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