Comments on: New Year’s Greetings, New Astros & More

By: Jessyka

Jessyka — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:52:28 +0000

Hunter, NEW Year’s for me was the BEST! As always, that is the ultimate holiday besides my bday, but GLAD TO KNOW YOU ARE STILL AN ASTROS!! Do you think you will retire as Astro? Curious, ive been a baseball fan since i was a kid, and a bigger Astros Fan now at 28, but whatever you do or where ever you might be in life, continue to be all you are!!! xoxo

By: Kori Ellis

Kori Ellis — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:27:10 +0000

Hunter will be writing a blog post every week. I’m sure he will try to answer some questions when he can.

–Kori

By: Joel B.

Joel B. — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:17:27 +0000

From the looks of it this wont be an interactive blog?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:09:42 +0000

I don’t have much to add right now. Just a fan letting you know I’ve been checking out your blog since you started it a few days ago and I’m marking off the days on my calander until pitchers and catchers report. Can’t wait!

By: Amir

Amir — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:12:16 +0000

Hunter,

I like the blog and I’ll be sure to let the fans know about it. I’m glad to know the excitement factor is there. Though I’ll miss the Biggio era, I can’t wait to see the new look Astros! I think change has been needed for some time now, and I think it will do the team some good (as well as Lidge and the others who will have new surroundings). Bourn, Tejada, Matsui and Erstad are particularly intriguing to me and I think they’ll be upgrades to the roles they’re filling, especially on offense.

As a side note, I plugged the new players into MLB08 for PS2 and the Astros won the Central! A good omen IMO!

By: Pence on Erstad

Pence on Erstad — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:47:57 +0000

[...] Pence has posted his latest blog entry. In it, he talks more about his workout regimen, as well as offering thoughts on the Astros’ [...]

By: Joshua Smolik

Joshua Smolik — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:39:01 +0000

Hello Hunter, Happy New Year to you as well! I was happy with the Erstad signing. He is excellent at defense, has been a gold glove winner at 2 different positions which he is the only person in the MLB to ever do that. So he brings great defense to the team and even has some power.

As far as the bullpen goes, more than half of the relief pitchers are new. Although I think y’all are better off this year with the new signees than last year.

As for the starting pitching, Oswalt will always be the ace but I liked what I saw him Sampson. I think he can improve on last year, he was a bit inconsistent. Then Backe is back and hopefully healthy as can be. He has great potential and could be the #2 starter soon. I still believe that the Astros need to acquire at least one more pitcher that is a veteran and will play well for the whole season.

I have hope that this season will be up there with the 2005 season.

After all of those thoughts, I am glad that you are training well and getting better. I hope you continue to grow and become a great player for the Astros. As what I tell people, the only way to work is to work hard. So keep working hard!

Can’t wait for the next update!

By: Joel B.

Joel B. — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:21:30 +0000

The changes have been exciting to watch. It also makes the anticipation for the start of the season grow.

I think the pitching will be better than most think or at least I hope. But come on you and Oswalt are acting like its the nuts. I guess you have to, you can’t call out your buds in a blog. Its not they’re fault anyways.

We all know you guys need more pitching.

What do you think of Freddy Garcia? MLBTradeRumors.com thinks the Astros are in the mix for him.