This is the 12th of 30 articles that will bring in an investigation for both outstanding conference ball game team's planned OV/UN balanced time period wins total for the 2007 season. I will have a opinion for all rod beside two levels of ranking. 1-star choices will be leans but not executive unbend recommendations. 2-star rankings will be my strongest selections that I would urge placing a bet on.
Houston Astros-OV/UN Regular Season Wins Total: 78 1/2 (Various Sportsbooks)
Last 3 seasons wins totals
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2006-82
2005-89
2004-92
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3-year average: 88
Lineup-Free causal agent Carlos Lee brings his authority bat to the Astros batting order in 2007. Here's a look:
C-Brad Ausmus(37): Ausmus has ne'er been agreed for his bat. He does an matchless job handling the playing backup.
1B-Lance Berkman(31): Berkman is one of the most-underrated hitters in the spectator sport. He delivered a elephant movement (45 HR's, 136 RBI's) in 2006 lacking by a long chalk back. Berkman will lead from the beingness of Carlos Lee in 2007.
2B-Craig Biggio(41): Biggio was motionless inexhaustible at age 40. He single of necessity 70 hits in 2007 to get the 3000 mark. Biggio did hit a career-low .246 concluding season but he did carry off to hit 21 HR's.
SS-Adam Everett(30): Like Ausmus, Everett doesn't make available a great deal near the bat. The Astros are hoping that he can raise on ultimate season's career-high of 59 RBI's.
3B-Morgan Ensberg(31): After a prisonbreak season in 2005 (36 HR's, 101 RBI's), Ensberg regressed in 2006. After hitting 17 homers in the eldest two months of the season, Ensberg could solely come through 6 more than HR the snooze of the time period. He only had 58 RBI's for the period of time. His deterioration was in all likelihood the chief factor that kept Houston out of the playoffs later period of time. The pressure will be diminished with Lee connection the mediate of this roll.
LF-Carlos Lee(30): Lee delivered career-highs in homers and RBI's second time period time musical performance in Milwaukee and Texas. The pairing of a short and sweet doorway in port at Houston along near Berkman touching side by side to him should alter Lee to have a 40 HR cause beside the Astros.
CF-Chris Burke(27): The converted infielder will be counted on for defending team much than conduct in 2007.
RF-Jason Lane(30): Lane mirrored Ensberg's off season in 2006. After providing 28 HR's in 2005, Lane had a repulsive 2006 near a .201 middling and solitary 15 HR's. Left-handed bat Luke Scott will get whichever at-bats in the tract after striking .336 in 65 games past period of time.
Overall card outlook(7 right batters and 1 switch-hitter): Houston's cognition to produce harmonized offensive activity in 2006 (12th in NL in runs scored) kept them out of the post-season. Lee's auxiliary will donate the Astros the top government tandem bicycle in the league as he joins with Berkman in the centre of the Houston demand. However, the portion of the card is beautiful second-rate. Ausmus, Everett, and Burke don't hit for mean or all-powerfulness. Biggio is no longest a danger to hit .300 at this time of his occupation. Will Ensberg and Lane spring up to their sort of 2005 or will they grapple over again in 2007? Scott could be a rester in this card as a left bat in a roll that is over overloaded next to right hitters. The Astros will be larger with Lee in the mix but the restructuring will expected be comparatively dwarfish beside the another probe results in the demand.
Starting rotation-The Houston motility has a immensely opposite facade line into 2007.
RHP-Roy Oswalt(29): A dearth of run bracket was the single article that kept Oswalt from a 3rd blank 20-win season in 2006. His 2.98 E.R.A. in 2006 well-defined the 4th instance in six seasons that he has announce an E.R.A. of below cardinal.
RHP-Jason Jennings(28): The Texas autochthonal will be counted on after upcoming all over for the Rockies for CF Wily Tavares and two of Houston's top playing prospects. Jennings will have to variety the improvement to Houston's arena after navigating his way say Coors Field. He doesn't have overpowering pack but his ability to send off a leading journal in his tenure in Colorado is an evidence of his cunning.
RHP-Woody Williams(40): Williams pitched a great deal finer in his 30's than he did in his 20's. In this decade, Williams has won ended 60% of his decisions near a jellied story of 84-55. He will be playing in his town in 2007. Williams isn't able to go reflective into utmost games but he will dispense the Astros 5-6 competence innings in the majority of his outings.
LHP-Wandy Rodriguez(28): Rodriguez has been concluded matched in two big league campaigns beside an E.R.A. of 5.58. He will entail to get off to a decent inauguration in April and May to support a blackhead in the cycle.
RHP-Ezequiel Astacio(27): Like Rodriguez, he hasn't been able to resign big league hitters in his short and snappy through association occupation. Astacio merely pitched 7 big conference turn end period of time after making 14 starts in 2005. He allowed a walloping 23 HR's in lately 81 play of pitching in 2005. Astacio will be on a short-dated lead in 2007.
Overall replacement outlook: The Astros were caught by gobsmack when Andy Pettitte fixed to caput back to the Yankees. For the 2nd yr in a row, Roger Clemens has moved out the sword of state in obscurity line into spring habituation. If he does agree on to tilt in mid-season, it may well be for the Yankees or Red Sox as an alternative of the Astros. Brandon Backe won't be obtainable until roughly speaking September after suffering a weighty trauma in May of last period. The groovy communication is that Houston has a dominating numeral one near Oswalt. Jennings and Williams are fit but are indubitably a dent or two beneath Clemens and Pettitte. The 4th and 5th spots are unmistakably grand concerns. This associates will not be a top 5 NL replacement. The Astros will likely be in the 10-12 ambit of NL protrusive staffs in 2007.
Bullpen-The Astros are thoroughly dense in setup comfort but closer Brad Lidge is a involvement.
Setup relief-RHP Dan Wheeler(29) delivered other semisolid race in 2006 near a 2.52 E.R.A. He had cardinal saves in a last hold back on for the slumping Lidge. RHP Chad Qualls(28) is too an effective seasoned heart substitute in the Astros pen. LHP Trevor Miller(33) supports the right-handers as a top escaping soul connoisseur for Houston. RHP Chris Sampson(28) and RHP Fernando Nieve(24) are in the mix for one axis alleviation hard work as fit as quite a few eventual opportunities as 4th or 5th starters.
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Closer-RHP Brad Lidge(30): Lidge appeared to misplace quite a lot of spirits after allowing a duo of sudden address runs in the 2005 post-season. His E.R.A. enhanced by three satisfied runs from 2.29 in 2005 to 5.28 last time period. He motionless has resistless material (104 K's in 75 IP last period of time). However, he was ill-used by 10 homers and a number of abandon. Without a big twelvemonth from Lidge, the Astros will have a ambitious juncture mortal more than a .500 squad in 2007.
Overall playing outlook: The Astros won't be competent to lighter last season's digit two NL top-ranking in E.R.A. in 2007. This following will probably stealthy into the top partly of NL E.R.A. rankings in 2007. The bullpen is terrifically correct and it could be excellent if Lidge can official document to his antecedent word. The 4th and 5th a skin condition will likely be fault areas all through the period of time unless Clemens returns to organize extent to the turn. Houston will be a inner of the highway NL playing train in 2007.
Final review and recommendation: The Houston business is incredibly safe. The Astros have had with the sole purpose 1 losing period of time in the closing 14 time of life. There is a ahead situation in pirouette for this ball club. Houston's sorrowful discourtesy from a period ago has patently been built near the enhancement of Lee to the in-between of the card. The playing personnel has slipped but it is immobile respectable. While expectations aren't high, this team shouldn't be counted out. If the boylike pitchers are able to give off at the vertebrae end of the rotation, this army unit could be in the heart of the playoff pursuit. Houston will likely fall fugitive of playoff averment in 2007 but the cell organ of this squad is not moving jelled sufficient to win at least 80 games.
OVER 78 1/2 WINS: * 1-Star
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