Be sure to check in on our predictions for the 2011 season. Perhaps in one game, we’ve already seen the 2011 season. And, we’ve already certainly seen that a roller coaster can be fun and it can also make your stomach a bit queasy! Some days will be wonderful experiences that will make you want to write [...]  More »

Click on the image for the best photos from the Astros’ opening-day loss to the Phillies.  More »

The thing I love most about baseball is that a team can suffer the most gut-wrenching, soul-draining defeat, and it really means virtually nothing. As The Earl of Baltimore once said to a well-meaning reporter, ”Christ, this ain’t football, son. We do…  More »

PHILADELPHIA — Most times, you don’t start thinking about a no-hitter until the guy has it through 3-4 innings. Today, if Phillies fans weren’t thinking ab0ut it when Roy Halladay showed up to the stadium with his right arm still attached at a ball-and-socket joint, they were thinking it soon after. That’s why it wasn’t just [...]  More »

Progress can’t always be measured, and that’s why Ed Wade is proud of more than the fact he acquired many of the core players of the teams that won back-to-back NL pennants in 2008-09.  More »

Only Humberto Quintero and Wandy Rodriguez remain from that 2005 World Series team, which gradually disintegrated in a combination of natural decay and, more recently, forced destruction.  More »

Three All-Star pitchers, three distinct styles, with a track record of making hitting stars look like stooges. The Philadelphia Phillies are paying the three a combined $47 million this season to do more of the same.  More »

The Astros subtracted two of the most productive players in franchise history in the middle of last season, and a strange thing happened. The victories added up far faster without franchise cornerstones Roy Oswalt and Lance Berkman than with them.  More »

Don’t be surprised if the Astros have a wide-eyed look about them when they open the season today against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.  More »

Recommended reading from around the major leagues.  More »

The Astros had to scuttle Plan A when starting catcher Jason Castro blew out a knee in the first week of spring training games. They had to scuttle Plan B — the one without Castro – when starting shortstop Clint Barmes broke his hand in the last week…  More »