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Pitchers Struggles In Marlins Tie

Spring Training Update (March 24)

Highlights: We were able to score ten runs without the help from most of our regulars. Hunter Pence,
Lance Berkman, and
Miguel Tejada did not make the trip this Monday and yet The Astros were able to produce 10 runs.


Lowlights: Our pitching looked pretty bad. It was a mixed bag, Chacon, Moehler, and Wesley Wright gave up all 13 hits and Wright had his first poor performance of the spring with a blown save. The positive (if there is one) is that most of the hits given up were not driven well and would lucky to drop/roll where they did.

Although our pitching was sup-bar, I have comes to terms with that, the thing that really has me nervous was the performance of Michael Bourn. Today he went 0 for 6 and has seen his batting avg drop .100 points in less than a week. I have faith in the kid however and will reserve the right to be cautiously optimistic about his ability to get on base when the season started. The silver lining again, is that he only struck out once in those six at bats, which means that he was able to make contact, but just hit the ball to someone. This is unlikely to continue this way and I would still stand by my prediction that his OBP (on-base-percentage) will hover around .360 this year, which would be plenty.

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