a.j. hinch

9 min read 2020-01-18 22:49:00

Help Wanted: Managers for Houston, Boston, and Queens...

Managerial Dismissals in Triplicate…This has been quite the week in the Major League Baseball. I thought Januarys were for the ‘quiet calm’

3 min read 2020-01-14 21:45:53

The Major League Baseball community reacted swiftly and with malice after MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred handed out year-long suspensions to Houston

3 min read 2020-01-14 20:00:00

What if Howie Kendrick's hit landed just foul? What if the Nationals still trailed in the eighth and ninth innings of Game 7 of the World Series and

7 min read 2020-01-14 15:15:00

Some quick, random thoughts about the Astros punishments handed down earlier today. Of course, AC already covered this in detail.A.J. Hinch is the

4 min read 2019-11-14 12:36:00

Join me, as well as the entire Astros organization, on offering the most fervent of distracting congratulations to Justin Verlander on winning his

2 min read 2019-11-13 19:35:00

I spent the majority of Tuesday working on a write-up related to the report in The Athletic.The Astros released a statement promising to cooperate

1 min read 2019-11-06 18:29:00

Something I was thinking of today:Carlos Correa, career debut until 2018 back injury: .285/.363/.495, 386K:205BB, 79HR, 297 RBICarlos Correa, return

3 min read 2019-11-02 22:20:00

I have a theory about Gerrit Cole and the reaction to Gerrit Cole's post-game [waves hands] thing. Gerrit Cole has known this offseason was coming

3 min read 2019-11-01 18:19:00

We're now a full day removed from the last out of the World Series, which led to something called "The Nationals" celebrating and spilling

4 min read 2019-10-28 18:41:00

That's just about as good as a 3-game road trip could have gone. The Astros surge ahead, getting key home runs and letting Gerrit Cole work. The

6 min read 2019-10-26 19:54:00

Well that was more like it...sort of. Still, four runs felt like a week's worth, and even some hits that had no business getting down found their way

2 min read 2019-10-25 18:43:00

Well the Astros thankfully didn't lose last night. I don't know what it is, but I still think the Astros win this series. Maybe that's my liver

4 min read 2019-10-21 17:52:00

Okay, friends, it's now been 24 hours since the Astros won the Pennant. Time to read for pleasure, go to bed, hydrate tonight, and then it's GO

3 min read 2019-10-14 19:46:00

Holy Hannah what a game, what a home run, what a momentum swing. Carlos Correa, who had caught All The Slander over the last few months, goes into

5 min read 2019-10-10 10:37:00

Wake up, time to die. Today is the day we find out if the Astros move on to the ALCS or if they flushed a 107-win season down the toilet in the span