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Astros Take a Step In the Right Direction
August 01, 2008 by
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The Astros finally make a smart decision in late July!! Supplemental pick, RHP Ross Seaton inks a lucrative deal with the Astros. Does this means things are changing in the front office??
Error of my ways
August 01, 2008 by
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Astros GM Ed Wade is either incredibly stupid or incredibly genius. In the interest of playing devil's advocate, we're trying to find evidence of the latter...
Baseball Knowledge 101: DIPS > ERA
July 31, 2008 by
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The Astros are awful, irrelevant, and just easy to make fun of having passed the trade deadline. Instead, we're focusing on objective baseball knowledge -- which just makes the Astros look even worse/inept. Today we're focusing on why DIPS does a better job at evaluting true...
Fear and Loathing in Houston
July 31, 2008 by
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As the deadline clicks closer, the Astros continue to squander this valuable opportunity.
Baseball Knowledge 101, cont.: ERA and Rate Stats
July 28, 2008 by
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An explication on why ERA fails to capture what it's even trying to capture. Valuable for fantasy baseball accumen or being a more discerning fan in general.
Baseball Knowledge 101 - Wins (Suck)
July 27, 2008 by
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An explication of why Wins are possibly the most useless statistic in baseball.
Baseball Knowledge 101 - Introduction and Syllabus
July 25, 2008 by
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The Astros are irrelevant at this point, unless you just like kicking a man when he's down. So we want to focus our attention to a more productive endeavor. Join us as we begin a lengthy series explicating the baseball knowledge we've derived from learning about sabermetrics.
John Kerry Ain't Got Nothin' On Richard Justice - Why Sports Writers Matter
July 24, 2008 by
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The Astros are in the basement of the NL Central with little of no hope for the next few years of being anywhere else. While we can certainly ridicule Ed Wade and Drayton McLane, perhaps we should point the finger at the beat writers who have defended them and sold their lies.
Trades, Pads and Compensatory Picks
July 23, 2008 by
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What does a team with a barren farm system, with little in young talent on the major league level do to begin their trade deadline moves? Trade for a 31 year old starting pitcher. That's what. A different spin on Astros' GM Ed Wade, and the roster changes he's made in his...
Astros become Wolf's Pack
July 22, 2008 by
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Sheer idiocy, we thought so at first, but after a minutia of consideration before rushing to publish, the boy at Dome-Dogs give the Randy Wolf deal their seal of approval.
However, we have now changed our tune, Ed Wade, Drayton McLane, and the entire Astros organization are just...
Unfounded optimism?
July 21, 2008 by
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The Astros had some high hopes going into this season and have vastly underperformed. While we held high hopes for the team, a look at their payroll allocations should have had us all writing them off from the start.
Bring on part deux
July 16, 2008 by
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Second Half wish list for the Astros and MLB as a whole.
'Stros First Half Review
July 14, 2008 by
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The Dome-Dogs boys go all physiology on ya, preview the Home Run Derby and do a pretty thorough review of the Astros first half offensive numbers.
Examining the Wizard: Long Balls and Luck
July 11, 2008 by
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A look at the inflated HR's that Roy Oswalt has allowed in 2008, using HitTracker data, reveal that maybe the Wizard has just caught a bad break in the 1st Half.
Is Miguel Tejada Fatigued? Or Are We Just Lazy?
July 10, 2008 by
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A more thoughtful discussion of the rapidly aged short-stop's recent struggles.
Is There Anything Cecil Cooper Can't Screw Up?
July 09, 2008 by
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Reliever usage is one of the few actually impactful decisions a manager makes for his team. Like just about everything in his job description, Cecil Cooper has botched this one too -- poor Doug Brocail.
Beane strikes again
July 09, 2008 by
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We continue our admiration of this deal, in spite of its common disdain. This time we look at NL Central rival, the Cubs, motivating factors for this trade and are left scratching our heads.
The NL Central Gets Cut Throat or Why I love Billy Beane
July 09, 2008 by
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A quick, outsider's view on why this deal looks like it'll work in Billy Beane's favor. Therefore, why the Cubs are idiots. Seriously, they just must be cursed.
Examining the Wizard: Diagnosis
July 08, 2008 by
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A look at what Roy Oswalts injury means for Roy Oswalt and the Astros as an organization.
Ed Wade Makes a Pretty Lousy Scape-Goat
July 07, 2008 by
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As the fingers start pointing in Houston as to who should be blamed for the Astros' misery, Ed Wade is drawing most of them. Yet, holds the least amount of blame.
How the Astros Line-Up
July 02, 2008 by
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Everyone loves to quibble about line-ups, so we decided to add some fuel to the fire using the Baseball Musings line-up tool.
"Fans" Say the Darnded Things
July 01, 2008 by
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You've been there. You're at the ballpark and the Jack-@$$ behind you won't stop prattling on about things that don't even make sense, while the morons he's with nod and approve as though the guy was the Dhali Lama. We'll come read about our experience recently...
HALF WAY!!
June 30, 2008 by
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We take stock of the Astros' present, disect the past, so we can discern what their future might hold.
Searching for Intelligence -- Still
June 28, 2008 by
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As the Trade Deadline inches ever closer the Astros' are prime sell candidates. Unfortunately, the Drayton McLane doesn't think so. Even worse, the beat writers think that's a good idea
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