With the Texans' final preseason game canceled, head coach Bill O'Brien, general manager Rick Smith and their staffs have seen all that they can to make the final decisions on which players make the 2017 Houston Texans. The deadline is Saturday night. These choices are extremely tough, and Hurricane Harvey complicates matters significantly. Players returned … Continue reading Projecting the Texans’ 53-man roster
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Breaking down the Tyler Clippard trade
Tyler Clippard scooped all the beat writers by breaking news of his own trade. The right-handed reliever moved from a team 25 games below .500 to the team with the best record in the American League (and 27 games above .500). Not a bad night for the 32-year-old. So why did the Astros pull the … Continue reading Breaking down the Tyler Clippard trade
What Will Fuller’s injury means for the Texans’ offense
The first big blow to the Houston Texans 2017 season came one week ago, when second-year wide receiver Will Fuller broke his collar bone and was deemed out indefinitely.
Trade Deadline
The 2017 MLB Trade Deadline has officially passed, and the Astros have added a left-handed reliever in Francisco Liriano from the Jays, sending them OF Nori Aoki and Teoscar Hernandez. Liriano is expected to move to the bullpen, and looks to be an upgrade over the current lefty bullpen arm in Tony Sipp. Sipp has … Continue reading Trade Deadline
Three questions the Texans need to answer in training camp
The Houston Texans began training camp today at the Greenbrier in West Virginia, and this team has as many question marks as any in the National Football League. There are 47 days until the Week 1 matchup vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars and much still needs to be resolved. While the preseason will provide more important … Continue reading Three questions the Texans need to answer in training camp
Predictions for the rest of the 2017 MLB season
Without further ado, and with only a tinge of hometown bias, here's what we see unfolding in the rest of the 2017 MLB season. Division Champs American League Sahil East – Boston Red Sox Central – Cleveland Indians West – Houston Astros (duh) Wild Card 1 – New York Yankees Wild Card 2 – Kansas … Continue reading Predictions for the rest of the 2017 MLB season
Can Marwin Gonzalez keep this going?
The 2017 Houston Astros have six All-Stars, and utility player Marwin Gonzalez has more Wins Above Replacement than two of them.
Dash’s arrow pointing up at halfway point
The Houston Dash begin play in the second half of their regular season tonight, and the team is looking to build on its last three games, from which they took seven out of a possible nine points. Those three matches have been the Dash's best of the season, coinciding with the return of the … Continue reading Dash’s arrow pointing up at halfway point
The top 10 moments from the 2017 Astros so far
We're halfway through the 2017 Astros season! Here are our top 10 moments of the season so far!
A farewell to Patrick Beverley
I met Patrick Beverley two years ago at Rodeo Houston. Realistically, "met" isn't the right word though. I was strutting around the carnival like I owned the place, and Bev just walked up to me. Ok, I saw Bev walking towards me and put myself in his path. Ok ok, so I saw Bev walking … Continue reading A farewell to Patrick Beverley