The Houston Astros Should Be Proud
It cannot be easy to lose a postseason series when you are six outs away from advancing.
Yet, this is what happened to the Houston Astros, who are one of the youngest teams in baseball. They ran into a Kansa...
Baseball’s Good Old Days are just getting started
Major League Baseball launched a new promotional campaign before Spring Training this year. "These are the good old days of baseball," Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter intoned. In the commercial, which ...
Are prospects with potential more valuable than established veterans?
At the end of the year, every team in Major League Baseball wants to be holding the commissioner's trophy above their heads, with their uniforms doused in champagne and beer. There are different approaches as t...
Royals-Astros Game 4 Rollercoaster
About 13 minutes before the Astros finally got Mike Moustakas to record the first out in the top of the 8th inning on a strikeout, I had this thought:
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Another golden era of shortstops may be upon us
Long gone are the days of Nomar Garciaparra, Alex Rodriguez, and Derek Jeter. Two of the three are retired while the third has been reduced to a full time DH. The late 1990s and early 2000s were a period of dom...
MLB’s replay system still far from perfect
With two outs in the fifth inning of yesterday's Hoston Astros-Los Angeles Angels contest, Carlos Correa of the Astros broke for second on a 2-1 pitch. It was a bang-bang play, and umpire Angel Hernandez ruled ...
AL Rookie of the Year: Is it Correa or Lindor
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From the day that Carlos Correa set foot on a big league diamond, he's been highly talked about as the #1 candidate for AL Rookie of the Year, and for pretty good reason considering his numbers and overall impa...
Dallas Keuchel, Houston Astros Dominate Angels 6-3 in Series Opener
HOUSTON-- Though the Houston Astros are one of the worst road teams in baseball in 2015, they are the best Home team in their league. That trend continued on Monday night as the Houston Astros took down Jered W...
Brewers Expected to Name David Stearns next GM
With the 2015 season winding down, teams seemingly out of contention are finalizing their plans for the following year and the Milwaukee Brewers are no exception as they prepare to name David Stearns as their n...
How good are the Houston Astros?
After spending 139 days in first place, the Houston Astros have spent the past two days in second place. They have lost three straight games to the red-hot Texas Rangers and have fallen 1.5 games back in the di...