The Post-Hype Limbo of Jon Singleton

Have we forgotten Big Jon? This man deserves to play.

On June 2nd, 2014, the Astros announced both a contract extension and promotion to the Major Leagues for first base prospect Jonathan Singleton, then a 22-year old who was hitting .267/.397/.544 with 14 HR and 43 RBI through 54 games in the Pacific Coast League. Singleton had been a top-100 MLB prospect for four consecutive years through his rise in the minor leagues, according to both Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus.

The Astros On Vacation

Championship ETA? With Carlos Gomez: now.

In his brilliant psychological thriller The Visible Man, Chuck Klosterman has a great line about the psychology of being rich -- the kind of rich the Astros were from June of 2012 until July of 2015:

"The rich can take vacations, which isn't nearly as essential to day-to-day happiness as the process of looking forward to all the vacations you'll experience later."

This concept -- that laying on a beach never feels as great as the security and self-esteem of sitting in your living room knowing that you can lay on a beach whenever the heck you want -- is a fairly common sense way of explaining how hope and imagination work.

From the moment Jeff Luhnow took over baseball operations