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Batter up! Stros 2008 Season Preview
The Stros are on the road for the first week of the 2008 Major League Baseball season, but that's not a bad thing considering that the optimism usually associated with Opening Day during the Biggio-Bagwell era of the Stros...
The Lidge deal
New Stros General Manager Ed Wade's first major move was to end Brad Lidge's career with the Stros. Wade traded Lidge and utilityman Eric Bruntlett to the Phillies for CF Michael Bourn (a Houston native and former University of Houston...
Stros 2007 Review, Part Ten: Season Recap and Report Card
It’s been a week now since the Craig Biggio Farewell Tour drew to a close during the final eighth of the Stros’ disappointing 2007 season. With the end of the season, the tremendously successful Biggio-Bagwell era in the history of...
The Great Embarrassment of the 2007 season?
I am not as sure as most that Drayton McLane made the right move in firing General Manager Tim Purpura the other day. However, there is no doubt that Baseball Prospectus' Joe Sheehan thinks that McLane screwed the pooch in...
Drayton cleans house
Stros owner Drayton McLane finally pulled the plug and fired General Manager Tim Purpura and Manager Phil Garner on Monday as the Stros continue their spiral downward into last place in the National League Central. Although the timing of the...
Does Jose de Jesus Ortiz research anything?
Is shooting from the hip a Houston Chronicle requirement for covering the Stros? As noted in earlier posts here, here, here, here, here and here, the Chronicle's Stros beat writer -- Jose de Jesus Ortiz -- incongruously struggles with analyzing...
The Stros' legacy of bad trades
This earlier post explored the possibility that Stros management got snookered in the trade for pitcher Jason Jennings because of possible undisclosed arm problems. After serving a stint on the disabled list with elbow inflammation earlier this season, Jennings has...
Dissecting the Stros' woes
The Stros (40-54) won last night for the first time in five games since the All-Star Break, which has put the club in contention for the worst record in Major League Baseball this season. That performance prompted Baseball Prospectus to...
Stros 2007 Season Review, Part Four
So, now that the Stros are done with that, where does the club go from here? As the Stros (34-47) reached the halfway point of the 2007 season, that's the question confronting the owner Drayton McLane and General Manager Tim...
Damaged goods?
Don't you know that an eyebrow or two was raised around town with the following disclosure deep within Jose de Jesus Ortiz's Chronicle article today on the return of the Stros off-season acquisition Jason Jennings from a bout of tendonitis...
Pitching well?
Jose de Jesus Ortiz is the Chronicle's beat writer for the Stros, but curiously, the newspaper allows Ortiz to provide subjective blather about the club and its players rather than objective analysis. Get a load of Ortiz's latest on the...
Stros 2007 Season Review, Part Two
As the Stros reach the quarter pole of the 2007 season, the club's prospects on the surface seem to be somewhat improved over the dreary first eighth of the season (prior season reviews here). The Stros (20-21) stabilized a bit...
Stros 2007 Season Review, Part One
The first 21 games of the season of the Stros' (9-12) season has been one of streaks -- they started out the season by losing 5 of their first 6 games, rebounded momentarily by winning 8 of their next 9,...
Batter up! Stros 2007 Season Preview
Today is Opening Day for Major League Baseball, so it's time for my fourth annual Stros season preview (previous season reviews are here, here and here). Thankfully, it's not been as tumultuous an off-season as the previous one, but there...
Evaluating the Jennings deal
The Stros made their second big off-season acquisition on Tuesday as they acquired Denver Rockies ace and former Baylor star Jason Jennings and journeyman pitcher Miguel Asencio in trade for CF Willy Taveras, promising starter Jason Hirsh and mercurial starter...
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