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An old friend returns to Minute Maid Park

With the boys in brick red and ugly pinstripes playing so badly and focusing on 2013, one of the more interesting story-lines that has been put on the back-burner is the return of Hunter Pence. Remember…Read More

Down On The Farm

Yesterday, I wrote an article about top prospect George Springer being promoted (finally!) to AA Corpus Christi. I wake up this morning to see that Delino DeShields Jr. had also been promoted to AA, which…Read More

Phils trade Hunter Pence to Giants

The Philadelphia Phillies have traded former Astro Hunter Pence to the San Francisco Giants for Nate Schierholtz and two minor leaguers. Pence became a member of the Phillies exactly one year ago today,…Read More

Wandy’s exit brings closure

While I think the Carlos Lee deal brought closure to an era of bad baseball in Houston, Tuesday’s Wandy Rodriguez trade brought closure of a different kind. It seemed like every offseason and trade…Read More

Astros Complete Mega Trade with Blue Jays

So I get to the theater to see “The Dark Knight Rises”, I park the car, buy the ticket and on my way into the theater, I pull up twitter on my iPhone and see that we have completed a mega deal…Read More

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Astros To Replace Brad Mills at Seasons End

Late last night, Ken Rosenthal tweeted that the Astros will dismiss manager Brad Mills at seasons end.…Read More

Extra innings unkind to Astros

Former Astro Hunter Pence hit two homeruns, including the game winner in the tenth inning of Tuesday’s…Read More

Astros Draft: Will Mark Appel Be The Pick?

MLB’s Rule 4 Draft is in just 20 days. Our Houston Astros will have the top pick and unlike most…Read More

Astros Promote Jarred Cosart to AAA

During pre season, I wrote an article encouraging every Astros fan to “Adopt A Prospect”.…Read More

Get to know the Astros’ offense

As I was driving into work a few weeks back, yes I haven’t left my day job as of yet, I was listening…Read More

Will We Really Miss Hunter Pence?

As everyone knows, last year, the Astros traded their face of the franchise and RF in Hunter Pence to…Read More

Astros FanFest 2012: Sit down with JD Martinez

In late July, as most Astros’ fans had one eye on their TV screen and the other on twitter, waiting…Read More

Keith Law gives the Astros a harsh assessment

Keith Law,a once prospective Astros employee, gave his assessment of all 30 MLB teams via ESPN on Tuesday…Read More

Adopt a Prospect

For the first time in quite a while, the Astros have a respectable farm system. Not just that, but the…Read More

Morning Links

Today’s serving is centered around former and future Astros. It also includes a player that could…Read More

Singleton, Cosart, and Springer land on MLB’s Top 100 Prospects List

Yesterday, MLB.com released its annual list of top 100 prospects in baseball. The A’s and Padres…Read More

Astros Q & A with a Cleveland Indians blogger

Much to the dismay of many Houston fans the Astros are moving to the American League in 2013. It will…Read More

Player Profile: J.D. Martinez

When the Astros called up JD Martinez last season, it happened during one of the most difficult stretches…Read More

Player Profile: Jason Bourgeois

Jason Bourgeois hit .294 in 238 at-bats with the Astros last season. It was an up and down season for…Read More

2011 Astros season in review

Most of the so-called baseball experts predicted the 2011 Astros would lose about 100 games. But a strong…Read More