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Kiss My Astros - Houston Astros Blog
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The latest news and notes about the Houston Astros baseball team.
- Added on: Jun 19th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: strachtman
- Listed in: Baseball
- Tags: mlb fantasy baseball houston astros kiss my astros
Recent Posts
Laying it all out
Some of you have read the last few entries and wondered what this all means. Why is this guy focusing so much on fielding and base running? The answer is pretty simple. For those that read the book Moneyball you know that the book wasn’t about ...
A quick look at third base
The Philadelphia Phillies got the ball rolling by signing Placido Polanco to a three year 18 million dollar deal. However, there isn’t a shortage of third base candidates out there. The Astros have two categories they can choose from. There are...
Fun with the Bill James Handbook
With the Winter Meetings coming up it’s time to get into high gear to look at areas where this team will look to improve. A lot was made of the managerial search that netted us Brad Mills. Truth be told, there is very little a manager can do to...
Fun with the Hardball Times Part 2
Yesterday, we looked at the Hardball Times fielding team wide. We will continue that today but we will begin to break that down and look at individual players. First, we need to look at a metric we didn’t look at yesterday. THT has a statistic ...
Fun with the Hardball Times Part 1
You will have to excuse my exuberance. I get so excited this time of year that I tend to go all over the place. I started off looking at wins above replacement (and I’ll get back to it) but my off-season revolves around three things: The Hardba...
Assessing Value on Carlos Lee
As everyone knows, there are three Astros taking up nearly half of the estimated budget for 2010. Which of them is the best bargain? Which of them is the worst bargain? How do we even assess such a thing? Well, there is a stat called “wins abov...
