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He's certainly improving. My biggest issue is that its all based on OTJ training, with service time accumulation, and by the time he's finally...
Anybody dissect the impact of US born players playing year-round select ball from age 8 on, and whether it will eventually lead to a form of...
Starting pitching... and being unable to develop or keep starters healthy. The rest of the team is no better or worse than most of the AL. The...
Hmm. But even those seem like anomalies if you compare to the surrounding years. looks like 1999 was around the last season where double digit...
Also, I may be the only one that never really cared about pitchers wins... and I know pitchers do, and the HOF old voters certainly do... but the...
I think his interest in staying with the Astros was more than genuine... and it led to mutual interest. He still got a 33 million dollar/year...
JV knows the Astros unlocked something in him while everybody was thinking he was on the decline prior to 2017 (including himself). This is the...
And we do have recent benefit of marginal teams that buy at the deadline, get hot, and go all the way... and they wouldn't have seen the same...
In a season full of starting pitching injuries and inconsistency… Peter Lambert is the 2017 version of (insert your favorite former Astros...
And pretty sure Altuve (or both) made a futures game... and the Astros have spent a lot more on some international guys that have been farts in...
They probably shouldn't even have 6. Baseball goes from being the hardest sport to get promoted to and the hardest sport for any team to make...
Neyens and Alvarez (Kevin) would have to be in play for any big name.... but I don't see them dangling them (nor will they have enough to win a...
Iroinically no strike and Bagwell probably doesn't win, just like Judge isn't winning this year.
The Astros have two future HOFers on their roster... that literally came out of nowhere. And unlike our other two (ahem, 3) HOFers, these guys...
When did Oasis become the official band when England wins (Wonderwall) as well as when England (or really any football team now) loses (Don't look...
They paid Beltran $20 million in 2017 dollars... for a team that wasn't spending on anybody. On the one hand, I think the players do need to...
And a sneaky good offense that has some ability to hit well in big/late moments.
We were all there last year when they were 20 games above .500 and 7 games up on 7/6, having just swept the Dodgers in LA. Maybe this season will...
Ever since the minimum batter rule went into effect, you don't see as many relievers pigeoned solely to get out of on-base jams... or the previous...
Extras in this era is far more about offensive execution than a unified pitching strategy… ideally you just have relief pitchers who can strike...
