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The vast majority of prospects of Dezenzo’s age, with his documented abilities and weaknesses, simply just don’t turn into bonafide everyday...
But they did ultimately get “better” as a team despite letting their all-star level closer, 1B and CF leave in one off-season in part due to their...
This is also fairly analogous to a lot of anecdotal anomalies that does not rule out the causation that pitching is a health hazard. Lots like...
Fine... its just the genetically blessed arms that don't get hurt (but do eventually). There's no way to test for that, however... so one either...
Luck... nature of the job as currently being cultivated... you can label it however you want. The human arm was never meant to throw overhand,...
Its the nature of the job. This year its catching up with them. The Astros have had good years too. 2018 was one of the best.. till it wasn't...
Pitching health has nothing to do with "luck"... its an expected risk based on how arms are used now to the point that teams have calculated that...
It was just 2 years ago that Urquidy/Javier/Garcia had all emerged as bonafide starters that were directly going to keep the window open with...
Sometimes all you need is two dominant starting pitchers…. Win their matchups and you win any series (see 2019 Nationals).
If it were any other team and fan base... there'd be one person in the clubhouse getting the overwhelming credit for accomplishing all of this......
Chris Carter as a catcher is far more valuable than Chris Carter as a 1B. Needs a little bit more of the tangible-intangible to become the George...
If only Crane liked him as much as he liked JV… and those 2 or 3 year 40 million/year extension deals get secured during the season… and also if...
Cash is the type of manager every MLB team should be looking to find.
Was bound to happen at some point. King is solid… but not “no runs given up for the year” dominant. Was it last week that he took him out and...
Works both ways. Plenty of fans were ready to turn on Altuve as of 2 weeks ago.
It was the national media that stoked suspicion that some bigger market team (NY) could possibly make one of the biggest trades ever to get him...
Bielak was released the other day… half expected the Astros to get him back as the designated TBD guy.
He’s not really… striking out a lot more… but he’s in his physical prime and it’s still early in the season. The league will adjust to the new...
[MEDIA] (In case we had to give = opportunity to HR’s that wouldn’t have been HR’s anywhere else…. Obviously NY and the cloned NY ballpark in Tampa).
