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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.285 — Jose Altuve batting against Jameson Taillon. 0.285 — Amed Rosario batting against Jack Flaherty. 0.280 — Steven Kwan batting against Cooper Criswell. 0.279 — Luis Campusano batting against Ty Blach. 0.274 — Harold Ramirez batting against Jack Flaherty. 0.273 — William Contreras batting against Josh Fleming. […...2024
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Astros series preview

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images The Astros are off to a rough start. Can the Cubs take advantage? Here is the boxscore from the last game these two teams played in Wrigley Field before today. Just four men who played in that game nearly 11 years ago are still active: Jose Altuve, J.D. Martinez, Jordan Lyles and Anthony Rizzo. One is deceased (Luis Valbuena, who died in a car accident in ...2024
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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method Yields these top picks: 0.298 — Steven Kwan batting against Alex Wood. 0.296 — Jose Altuve batting against Trevor Williams. 0.289 — William Contreras batting against Miles Mikolas. 0.286 — Josh Naylor batting against Alex Wood. 0.284 — Nolan Arenado batting against DL Hall. 0.278 — Trea Turner batting against Michael Soroka. […]...2024
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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.283 — Jose Altuve batting against MacKenzie Gore. 0.280 — Luis Arraez batting against Jameson Taillon. 0.277 — Amed Rosario batting against Clarke Schmidt. 0.274 — William Contreras batting against Kyle Gibson. 0.272 — Bobby Witt Jr. batting against Dean Kremer. 0.272 — Harold Ramirez batting against Clarke […]...2024
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• Best Batter Today
The top five of Baseball Musings Batter Rankings remain unchanged, as none of those players were in action on Thursday. Juan Soto of the Yankees, Mookie Betts of the Dodgers, Yordan Alvarez of the Astros, Marcell Ozuna of the Braves, and Jose Altuve of the Astros remain the top in that order. The best game […]...2024
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• Jose Altuve passes two Hall of Famers on all-time hits list

Houston Astros superstar Jose Altuve has been a hitting machine since he entered the majors in 2011 and is moving his way up the all-time hits list....2024
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• Recap: Vines’ solid start and late burst from the offense pushes Braves past Astros 6-1.

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports Braves went into Houston with a rookie starter and took the first game of their 3-game series. Darius Vines made a good impression with his first start of 2024, while the offense showed up late and the bullpen held things down in the Braves 6-2 win over Houston. The Braves are still trying to get their rotation reset after losing Spencer Strider to season-endin...2024
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• Darius Vines and his change-up are coming back to the majors

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports The Darius Vines change-up is back. If you missed the news, this is happening Monday in Houston: Darius Vines will start tomorrow in Houston.— Justin Toscano (@JustinCToscano) April 14, 2024 The Braves are still reeling a bit from the news their ace Spencer Strider is out for the season after elbow surgery and haven't fully reset their rotation yet. Initia...2024
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• Braves begin Texas Week by heading down for three in Houston

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images The Braves will try to extend the Astros’ early-season misery in a 2021 World Series rematch After an improbable, thrilling win to cap off their series in Miami, the Braves will head to Houston to continue their road trip and begin an all-Texas week that will see them head home to host the Rangers over the weekend. This series will mark the first time th...2024
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• Astros series preview: Signs of struggle

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images The buzz on the Astros is they may not be what they once were. The Astros have been in the ALCS in each of the last seven seasons, winning four pennants and two titles. But they fired GM James Click after the 2022 season and last year their 90 wins were their fewest wins in a full season since 2016. This year, the Astros have stumbled out of the game, fall...2024
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas

Photo by Bailey Orr/Texas Rangers/Getty Images The defending champion Rangers and the relentless Astros dominate the division’s focus, but keep an eye on Seattle. The 2023 American League season came down to a Lone Star State Showdown in the Championship Series. Amazingly, the Houston Astros were back in the LCS for the seventh year in a row, one shy of the record held by the ‘90s Atlanta ...2024
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• This Day in MLB History: March 16

MLB History 1900 - Ban Johnson announces that an American League team will be placed in Chicago to ensure the stability of the league. In an agreement with National League officials, the AL club will be placed on the south side of the city and will be called the Chicago White Stockings. 1907 - The Detroit Tigers agree to trade Ty Cobb to the Cleveland Naps in a deal for Elmer Flick but Cleveland’...2024
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• A deeper dive into Bobby Witt Jr.’s shiny new contract

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals runs the bases as he heads home for an inside-the-park home run in the fifth inning against the Seattle Mariners at Kauffman Stadium on August 14, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images As the best young Royals player since Hall of Fame talent Carlos Beltran roamed Kauffman Stadium’s outfield a quarter century ago, Bobby ...2024
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• Braves News: FanGraphs Playoff Odds, MLB players in the Olympics and more

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images Tuesday’s news and notes for the Braves and the rest of Major League Baseball. Atlanta Braves pitchers and catchers will report to North Port next week and the Grapefruit League season is rapidly approaching. Recently we have seen several outlets release their preseason Top 100 prospect lists. This week was the release of preseason projections and the Br...2024
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• Tank Dell on schedule in injury recovery

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Thursday, February 8, 2024. Houston Texans News Sources: Patriots hire Texans staffer Bobby Brown for executive role, second stint with AFC East franchise (Click2Houston) Eagles reportedly hire new inside linebackers coach (Bleeding Green Nation) Texans WR Tank Dell reporte...2024
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• Reactions to the Bobby Witt Jr. signing

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images It’s a lot of money! On Monday, the Royals signed Bobby Witt Jr. to an eleven-year, $288.7 million contract that includes three years of club options that could total up to $377 million over 14 years, with player opt outs after years seven, eight, nine, and ten. It is a massive deal, by far the biggest in club history and potentially the third biggest in bas...2024
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• Blog Bat-Around: 5 best pack-pulled hits (plus a few others)

All right, time to inject a little spirit of community into the blog world again. Everyone's gone off into their own directions, even if they didn't ditch their blog 10 years ago. What we need is another Blog Bat-Around.This version was started by Matt of Diamond Jesters. Inspired by his recent pull of a Tony Gwynn bat relic in 2024 Topps, he listed his top five pack-pulled hits.I'm taking u...2024
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• This Day in MLB History: March 16
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• Jose Altuve heckled with tattoo taunts while signing autographs
The Houston Astros have no choice but to accept that the 2020 season will be a grueling one when it comes to the jeers, taunts and put-downs that well-prepared hecklers will have at their disposal in the wake of the team’s damning sign-stealing scandal. Along with every other Astros player who played a role in the scandal, Jose Altuve is learning that lesson the hard way so far in spring training....2020
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• Astros' Jose Altuve shows off tattoo during spring training to back Carlos Correa's claims
The 2017 AL MVP does, in fact, have a collarbone tattoo...2020
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• Jose Altuve appears to send message by showing off collarbone tattoo
Carlos Correa offered an explanation last week for why Jose Altuve did not want his teammates tearing off his jersey after the second baseman belted a walk-off home run in Game 6 of the 2019 ALCS, and Altuve may have tried to provide further evidence on Monday. Correa told Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic that Altuve did not want his jersey ripped off in celebration because Altuve had “an unfinished ...2020
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• Adam Jones has a laugh over Carlos Correa's tattoo explanation for Jose Altuve
Carlos Correa has decided to dig his heels in and defend the Houston Astros against some of the criticism they are facing, and former MLB star Adam Jones found one thing Correa said about the scandal particularly entertaining. Jones, who now plays professionally in Japan, admitted in a tweet on Saturday that he has been watching the Astros cheating scandal unfold from a distance, but he couldn’t r...2020
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• Brand Name Ambition: Astros' Carlos Correa Focuses on Baseball and a Lot More
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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2024
"Second baseman Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros have agreed to a five-year, $125 million contract extension through 2029, sources told ESPN."

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") 8:48PM: Jose Altuve was removed during the fifth inning of tonight’s United States/Venezuela World Baseball Classic…"

2022
"Crane also feels Jose Altuve has been mistreated in the sign-stealing scandal's wake"

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"The Astros' Carlos Correa, whose wife is pregnant with their first child, and Jose Altuve, who has an ailing left leg, said Thursday they will not be playing in the All-Star Game."

2020
"Astros stars Alex Bregman and Jose Altuve apologized for their roles in the team's sign-stealing scheme in 2017 as the team began spring training Thursday."

2019
"It’s well known that the Nationals hope to work out a long-term deal with third baseman Anthony Rendon before he reaches free agency next winter, and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic wrote over the weekend (subscription required) that Rendon and agent Scott Boras have been eyeing something in the vicinity of Jose Altuve’s extension from…"

2018
"Watt and Jose Altuve following Hurricane Harvey."

2017
"It has already been quite a month for Jose Altuve, who won a World Series title, a Player Choice Award, an AL Silver Slugger Award and, on Thursday, his first AL MVP Award."

2016
"Carlos Correa reached on an eighth-inning throwing error by Dellin Betances, sending Jose Altuve home with the go-ahead run as the Astros defeated the Yankees, 5-3, on Opening Day at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday."

2015
"Jose Altuve hammered a 3-1 pitch from Craig Breslow over the wall in left for a walk-off homer with one out in the ninth, giving the Astros a 5-4 victory over the Red Sox on Thursday night at Minute Maid Park."

2014
"He beat out Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez and Astros second baseman Jose Altuve in what is expected to be a precursor to securing the AL MVP Award, which will be revealed Nov."

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• Reynaldo López looks to keep up the consistency as starter for Braves against Astros

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images So far, it's been López leading the way for the rotation. The Braves are certainly looking forward to him keeping it going for a third straight start to kick off the season. The Atlanta Braves will be facing the Houston Astros tonight with the hopes of picking up their first series win since, well, you know when. They pulled away last night with anothe...2024
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• Darius Vines and his change-up are coming back to the majors
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• Braves begin Texas Week by heading down for three in Houston
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Playoff hero Jordan Montgomery fired Boras after being one of several big-name free agents to sign late for a much lower contract than expected. For decades now, Scott Boras has been synonymous with the MLB offseason. He changed the landscape of player salaries in such a dramatic way and over such a long period of time that it would not surprise anyone to se...2024
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• Blog Bat-Around: 5 best pack-pulled hits (plus a few others)
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• Astros series preview: Signs of struggle
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• MLB Opening Day 2024: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions

What do you all think will happen during the 2024 MLB season? It’s Opening Day! Rockies baseball is back! Earlier today, we shared our Purple Row staff predictions, and for the first time, we asked the community to offer their same predictions! We received 28 responses, and here’s what you all think will happen this year: Let’s start with a win total The community is more optimistic, overall, than...2024
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• This Day in MLB History: March 16
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• Braves begin Texas Week by heading down for three in Houston
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign
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• MLB Opening Day 2024: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions
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• The history of deaf baseball players

Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images Can you hear me now? Baseball is unusual compared to other sports. To excel in football, it helps to be big, strong, fast, and athletic. In basketball, being tall is a plus. You also need fast twitch muscles, great eye-hand coordination, and extreme athleticism. Tennis? You had best be athletic. Hockey? Those guys are athletic, strong and tough as nails w...2024
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• Monday Rockpile: Three Rockies set to hit free agency after 2024 (and who’s behind them)

Photo by Rachel O’Driscoll/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, February 19, 2024 Spring Training is officially underway as the Colorado Rockies have reported to camp at Salt River Field in Arizona and we are less than a week away from the first game action – February 23, against the Arizona Diamondbacks. We’re finally in a position to start seeing how...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Houston Astros

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Dana Brown’s team projects to be right at the top of the AL once again in 2024. The Astros have had a fantastic run for nearly a decade now, emerging from their protracted, performative, brutal rebuild in 2015. In that span, they have brought home two World Series titles, coming in 2017 and 2022, although the one from 2017 is tainted by the sign-steali...2024
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• $125 million extension could mean Jose Altuve plays whole career for Astros

The 33-year-old Altuve made his debut with the Astros during the 2011 season when they were one of the worst teams in baseball and going through a massive rebuild. His arrival was one of the first turning points in the franchise....2024

• Reynaldo López looks to keep up the consistency as starter for Braves against Astros
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• Recap: Vines’ solid start and late burst from the offense pushes Braves past Astros 6-1.
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• Blog Bat-Around: 5 best pack-pulled hits (plus a few others)
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• The history of deaf baseball players
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• Monday Rockpile: Three Rockies set to hit free agency after 2024 (and who’s behind them)
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• Reactions to the Bobby Witt Jr. signing
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• Backdoor sliders and knuckle curves
Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports Odds and ends this week I’m fortunate that my wife is also a baseball fan. It runs in her family as her maternal grandmother almost always had a game on. We’d arrive at her home late on a Friday and she’d have on a Dodger game, or some other west coast game on TV. Good memories. Despite being a fan, my wife struggles with the names of the players. Birthdates...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile: What is happening with AT&T Sportsnet and the future of the Rockies broadcasts
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, March 21th, 2023 At the end of February, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the parent company for AT&T Sportnet, announced the plan for the company to suspend it’s regional sports network businesses and transfer the ownership by March 31st. The Rockies and their broadcast are among three MLB teams that are direct...2023
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• Outside The Confines: We’re all even up
Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports The World Series is tied at one game each. Everything you need to know about tonight’s Game 3 and more news from around the league. I know that no one ever believes anyone who says “I don’t care who wins the World Series,” but I truly don’t. I just want it to go as many games as possible. My great fear was that the Astros would blow out the Phillies in four ga...2022
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• November reign: Altuve wins AL MVP Award
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• Skid hits 8 as Red Sox fall on walk-off homer
Jose Altuve hammered a 3-1 pitch from Craig Breslow over the wall in left for a walk-off homer with one out in the ninth, giving the Astros a 5-4 victory over the Red Sox on Thursday night at Minute Maid Park. The home run was confirmed after replay review....2015
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• Altuve's walk-off blast hands Astros a sweep
Jose Altuve hammered a 3-1 pitch from Craig Breslow over the wall in left for a walk-off homer with one out in the ninth, giving the Astros a 5-4 victory over the Red Sox on Thursday night at Minute Maid Park. The home run was confirmed after replay review....2015
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• ALCS stacks up teams with MVP candidates
One of the great photos of the 2017 season featured the diminutive Jose Altuve and the gigantic Aaron Judge beside each other on the basepaths. We already know who has the height advantage when these two American League MVP Award candidates stand side by side, but which of their teams will stand tall in the AL Championship Series?...2017
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• Correa leads Astros' OD win as Yanks protest
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• Castro delivers early, but Yanks edged late
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• Prospects power Yankees against Astros
Jose Altuve sparked a three-run first inning for the Astros, and some of the Yankees' top prospects sparked a late rally on Saturday in Kissimmee, Fla....2015
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• 2023 Top Keepers – Second Basemen
Welcome back, everyone. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. This week we are going to dive into the 2023 Top Keepers - Second Basemen. When it comes to second baseman, it is a position that now seems to be home of platoon players. Today's managers and general managers believe that if you can play a position in the field, then you can play second base. In 2022, only 12 players started more...2022
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• Top 25 Fantasy Second Basemen for 2021 – Week 21
In many fantasy baseball leagues, the season is winding down. The difference between making the playoffs and sitting on the sideline is going to be between which players are hot and which players are not. As I have been doing the past month with the second baseman and shortstop rankings, I am going to highlight the players you may have a chance of adding from the waiver wire. We all know Marcus S...2021
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• Top 25 Fantasy Second Basemen for 2021 – Week 17
At this point of the season, we all know who the top players are at each position. Unless you already own them are can make a trade for them, players like Marcus Semien, Jose Altuve, or Ozzie Albies won't be helping your fantasy lineup this year. But as we gear up for the trade deadline and the final stretch of the season, the difference between winning your league and falling short could be find...2021
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• Top 25 Fantasy Second Basemen for 2021 – Week 15
With the All-Star break upon us, now is a good time to see who has been a fantasy star in the first half of the season and who has been a disappointment. Owners of Marcus Semien, Jose Altuve, Whit Merrifield and Eduardo Escobar have to be ecstatic with the overall performance of those four players. Semien has been the top-ranked second baseman for most of the season, while Altuve and Merrifield h...2021
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• Top fantasy second baseman: Baez or Altuve?
Could Jose Altuve have a challenger this year at the top of the fantasy second-base rankings? Welcome to the conversation, Javier Baez....2019
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• Jose Altuve or Mike Trout: Who's No. 1 in our rankings for 2018?
The draft begins, and you're on the clock ... whom should you pick? Our experts defend their choices for the No. 1 overall selection in fantasy baseball drafts in three of the most popular formats: roto, head-to-head categories and head-to-head points....2018
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• Jose Altuve's Career Year Makes 2016 AL MVP Award His to Lose
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• Luis Guillorme, Travis d’Arnaud back in the lineup Wednesday against Astros

With Albies out, Guillorme gets the start at 2B | Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports With Ozzie Albies on the IL, we have a new look Braves lineup As the Atlanta Braves face the Astros this afternoon, they will continue to be without their starting second baseman Ozzie Albies. Not only does this leave a hole in the position itself, but it is also significant in terms of the lineup. Albies has be...2024
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• Reynaldo López looks to keep up the consistency as starter for Braves against Astros
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• Recap: Vines’ solid start and late burst from the offense pushes Braves past Astros 6-1.
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• Braves begin Texas Week by heading down for three in Houston
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign
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• Blog Bat-Around: 5 best pack-pulled hits (plus a few others)
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• Astros series preview: Signs of struggle
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• MLB Opening Day 2024: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• Braves News: USA beats Venezuela, shortstop competition, more
Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday Team USA won a wild game against Ronald Acuna and Venezuela in which each team had to come back from 2+ run deficits. A grand slam from Trea Turner turned the tables for Team USA in the eighth inning. On the Braves’ side of things, there has been some interesting buzz around the potential of...2023
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• Houston Astros still deny Jose Altuve’s involvement in 2017 cheating scandal
Years after the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal rocked Major League Baseball, All-Star second baseman Jose Altuve remains the focal point...2022
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• Insider reveals interesting detail regarding Jose Altuve and Astros' cheating scandal

Altuve has silently taken the brunt of fans' ire over the years, even though his home/road splits from 2017 show that he played much better away from Minute Maid Park....2022
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• The Pieces Around Them Change, but Houston’s Core Sets the Tone

Jose Altuve, Yuli Gurriel and Alex Bregman have reached the A.L.C.S. in six straight seasons. Through triumph and scandal, they have taught a rotating cast of teammates how to win....2022
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• The terrible agony of hope
Dylan didn’t have his best, but the White Sox won. | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports Liveblogging how much every moment contains the universe As I start this article, on Tuesday, shortly before the (presumed) pitching match of the year and the latest in the Most Important Game of the Year for the White Sox, my dog scrabbling at the floor, desperately trying to retrieve a ratty tennis ball th...2022
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• Astros' Jim Crane fires back at Yankees' Brian Cashman, Jose Altuve critics: 'You were doing it too'
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• Aaron Judge on Jose Altuve-like jersey tug: ‘Pretty chilly’ park

Aaron Judge returned to Houston with a bang — and created plenty of buzz with his trip around the bases after hitting a home run....2021
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