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Pitching Woes Killed the Houston Astros’ Season

Posted: 30th September 2009 by Richard Zowie in MLB
The Houston Astros, after 157 games this season, are 73-84, in fifth place in the NL Central, and 17 games back of the first place St. Louis Cardinals The Astros' chances at the postseason are deader than...well, it would be in poor taste to give names, but deader than a certain environmentalist actor who died in his early 20s from a drug overdose. Going into this season, I suspected the Astros were ...
It's officially over, the Cecil Cooper Project in Houston. Cooper, who had a decent Major League Baseball career, never could get things going as the Houston Astros manager. Coop took over late last season to replace the fired Phil Garner and made a well-publicized and ill-advised predicted the team would win 90 games this season. Not even close, as a shaky starting rotation and a chronic inability to get clutch hits ...