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Styles Make Fights: Predicting the MLB PLayoffs with a New Perspective
By Gordon Liang The 2019 World Series was supposed to be a formality. The 2019 Astros were merely putting the finishing touches on a...
Astros Fall Out of Playoff Picture 72 Games After Winning the World Series
It’s not 2020 but the feelings are all the same. 72 games into the season and if the season ended today, the Astros would miss the...
Astros Extend Utility Pitcher Cristian Javier to a Five-Year Deal in Dana Brown's First Move as GM
By: Gordon Liang Utility isn’t a word often used to describe pitchers. Typically it’s reserved for position players who simply don’t care...
GRAPHS: 95% CI Range of Bootstrapped Correlation Coefficients of Multiple Stats vs Win%
PROCESS: For each stat and each year, shuffle our sample 10,000 times and for each shuffle, we take the correlation between that stat and...
GRAPHS: Should Shifting be Banned?
Graphs shown below are in correspondence with the TikTok video in the following link: [to be updated/ it's the Joey Gallo video about...
VIDEO: A Trade in 2015 Changed the Landscape of Baseball Forever.
By: Gordon Liang 2/14/2022 When a baseball fan thinks of “the worst trade in history,” they often turn to the infamous Babe Ruth trade...
The Astros Desperately Need to Replenish Their Farm.
By: Gordon Liang 1/31/2022 When it comes to producing homegrown talent, no team has done better than the Astros over the past decade....
VIDEO: Jose Siri is the Ideal Trade Candidate to Complete the Outfield.
Jose Siri's had a hot start to his major league career. The September call-up has shown promise in his 49 plate appearances posting a 160...
Sending Brandon Nimmo to Houston Makes too much Sense.
Gordon Liang 12/25/2021 Early into the offseason, the Astros were rumored to be big pursuants of Starling Marte. The former-Athletic just...
The Mariners are Scary and the Numbers (Kinda) show that.
By Gordon Liang 12/3/2021 By most metrics, the Seattle Mariners are not a very impressive team. Their 2021 run differential was ridiculed...
Corey Seager: The Perfect Astro
By Gordon Liang 11/28/2021 When Gerrit Cole told the media he was an “affiliate of himself” after the 2019 World Series, he wasn’t lying....
Astros sign their guy: Hector Neris
By Gordon Liang 11/28/2021 Many people download Tinder to find their match. James Click doesn’t need Tinder, he knows who his matches are...
Houston's Unsung Hero: the Astros Development System
Gordon Liang 11/8/2021 When George Springer left, many Astros fans were left curious about how the team would make up for such a loss....
The Astros lost. What now?
Gordon Liang 11/3/2021 After 162 long, emotional and controversial games, the Houston Astros have finally reached the finish line. Their...
The Astros Decide that Baseball is not Their Thing. Correa’s Clock starts Running.
Gordon Liang 11/2/2021 Simply put, the Astros were not good at baseball over the past week. They got shut out in two of their World...
PETA Threw a Hanging Curveball and all of Baseball Swung
Gordon Liang 10/31/2021 PETA wanted the attention of the baseball world and they got it. On October 28th, the “People for the Ethical...
The Astros can’t hit, fall Behind 3-1.
Gordon Liang 10/30/2021 The Astros have yet to win a World Series in a clean year. This year was the year and barring some miracle, their...
It’s not an Opinion. The Braves do not have a Better Infield than the Astros.
Gordon Liang 10/28/2021 The Atlanta Braves hadn’t had a World Series team in a while. The last time the Braves made the World Series,...
Asked and Answered 1: Who Gets a Ring?
“If [Greinke’s] not on the ws roster does he still get a ring?” -@lasportscentral Yes. Anyone who’s spent time with the team is eligible...
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