By Knoxbanedoodle
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 11, 2001.

Some people want to bring heat on the Hun right now because the Astros are underachieving. But let’s take a look at it, seriously.

You can imagine that during one of last year’s ridiculous games, where the opposition ran all over Mitch Meluskey and exploded against the bullpen as if we had cloned Doug Henry six or seven times, the Hun sat in his air conditioned suite, perhaps fiddling with his nice cuff links, and thought: “This is hell.”Read More

By Baylor Boy
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 1, 2001.

With Felipe Alou getting canned by the Expos, it’s time for the Astros to make a move of their own. Houston can and should “reassign” Larry Dierker within the organization and go after Alou.Read More

By Waldo
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on May 25, 2001.

When a team gets off to a bad start, its fans will generally say “It’s still early, we can still turn it around.” I, for one, was guilty of that with the Astros last season. I’m not quite sure how long I allowed myself to use that excuse before I finally realized how much the team actually sucked. The expectations one has for a team can often make him/her blind to the cold, hard truth, and I’m fairly certain that I wasn’t the only victim of that last season (at least, for a little while).Read More

By Knoxbanedoodle
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on May 11, 2001.

The recent explosion of little ball talk on the TZ got me thinking about patterns in the Astros offense over the past couple years. Admittedly, when I started looking into the numbers I did so with the aim of discovering that little balls pays off, that Weaver-ball is overrated and Dierker isn’t getting the most of his offensive tools by standing around and waiting for the three run bomb. Even in a stadium like Enron there is a definite need to occasionally be able to manufacture a run, and, going further, perhaps there is a radical new way to blend the two diametrically opposed styles of baseball into a cool new battle plan. Here’s what I found: Read More

By Carnac
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on April 5, 2001.

Season home run data for major league ballparks are generally reported as a total number of home runs hit, or alternatively on a home runs per game basis. Frequently, these data are also split between the homers hit by the home club and those hit by the road club.Read More

 Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on January 17, 2001.

After Jeff Bagwell signed a five-year, $85-million contract extension last month, ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian used Bagwell’s performance in MVP voting to emphasize his value to the Astros. From 1994 to 1999, Kurkjian noted, Bagwell received more National League MVP votes than any other player.Read More