Analytics are good for player contracts, not bad. The Astros proved it.
Like clockwork this time of year, baseball’s Hot Stove season, baseball’s great debate over the fairness of player compensation slides back into the consciousness of […]
Astros send J.D. Davis to Mets in exchange for prospects
Finally, and I mean finally, the Astros made the blockbuster trade that we fans have been waiting for all off-season. After weeks and even sometimes days of wearying news […]
I don’t want Nelson Cruz for the Astros, and here’s why
It is Hot Stove season, and pretty soon Free Agents are going to come off the market in droves. One of the players often connected […]
Thoughts on the James Paxton trade and how it affects the Astros
In response to a friend’s email, I wrote up my thoughts on the trade in which the Marinerssent starting LHP James Paxton to the Yankees in exchange for LHP Justus Sheffield, […]
Astros trade for SS/3B Aledmys Diaz
Weep, oh Jerusalem. The door is closed on a return to the Astros for Marwin Gonzalez. Don’t weep. Expensive utility players aren’t a smart investment […]
Some random Astros off-season thoughts
Here are some random thoughts for the offseason. The Astros should not trade for Sonny Gray. He’s not good enough right now. And he hasn’t […]
The one-stop shop for Astros 2019 off-season info! (Word count: 7,015)
The 2018 Houston Astros finished the year with the best record in franchise history at 103-59, passing a 1998 club that featured Hall of Famers […]
I Bet You Haven’t Seen This Image of Dallas Keuchel
Five summers ago, I did something most people never do on purpose: I took a road trip from Houston to Oklahoma. My then-girlfriend and I, […]
Approbation for Tyler White
It took me way too long to come up with the word “approbation” for the title of this article. In the time it took me […]
Adjusting 2018 Records for Strength of Schedule
With the 2018 season in the books, err… well, at least the standard 162 games in the books, I was curious to examine each team’s […]