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Now that the prediction (or at least the cover) has a real shot at being “right,” the question is whether this year’s success has flowed directly from the ideas that were laid out in the story. MORE: Why analytics matter so much in baseball We can’t fully know because, unlike the Cardinals, we’re not inside the Astros’ database, but from the outside it looks as though Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and his aides just created a mashup of Earl Weaver and Billy Beane:...

According to The Athletic, Houston will call up minor league home-run leader Yordan Alvarez in the coming days. Alvarez, 21, has 23 home runs in 56 games this season, that is two more than any other player in MILB and three more than he has ever hit in a season. The former Cuban National Series player was acquired in a trade from the Dodgers for reliever Josh Fielder before he ever had an at-bat on U....

Justin Verlander gave up two runs in six innings of work while a bullpen of Ryan Pressley, Lance McCullers Jr. and Collin McHugh held Boston scoreless over the final three frames. Houston send out Gerrit Cole to pitch game two on Sunday while the Red Sox counter with David Price. Alex Bregman wants in the Joe Kelly Fight Club Joe Kelly became a cult hero earlier this season when he plunked then-New York Yankees first baseman Tyler Austin during a game, sparking a brawl on the field between baseball’s two most bitter rivals....

According to the official product page, the Vivobook 13 is a 2-in-1 device that focuses on entertainment and artistry. The laptop has a bright OLED Dolby Vision display that ASUS claims can display over a billion colors, and comes with a pen that includes four interchangeable tips. The OLED screen, itself, has a lightweight form factor and is less than an inch thick. It supports Dolby Vision HDR technology, which includes a 0....

RELATED: 10 Assassin’s Creed Memes That’ll Make You Laugh To honor Desmond’s character, it will be fun to look back at some of the more hidden details about the character. There are things about him not that many people know unless they really dig through everything related to Desmond. 10 He Was Trained At A Very Young Age Since Desmond Miles was born, he was already prepped to be the assassin he turned out to be....

For gamers unfamiliar with the latest series of Assassin’s Creed spin-offs, this trilogy takes on the identity of a 2.5D side-scroller with some 3D aspects. Each installment takes players to a different location and puts them in control of a brand new protagonist. This time around the protagonist is Arbaaz Mir and the assassin is dodging patrols and zip-lining around India. The game’s setting is the first of many features that help this follow-up stand out from its predecessor....

Assassin’s Creed Mirage players more like an old-school AC game as opposed to the massive open world RPGs that the newer games in the series play like. Launching at an undetermined point next year, Assassin’s Creed Mirage is set in Baghdad and features Basim as the main playable protagonist. More on Assassin’s Creed Mirage should be revealed in the months leading up to its release, but those who are already excited to play the game can pre-order now....

Dubbed “Crossover Stories,” both AC Odyssey and Valhalla will get a new free mission connected to one another. The latter also sees Kassandra and Eivor come fist-to-first, or blade-to-blade, as mentioned in prior leaks, and it’s an exciting moment to see two Assassin’s Creed protagonists meet in the flesh. RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Update Requires Re-Downloading the Entire Game The Assassin’s Creed Odyssey content is titled “Those Who Are Treasured” and attempts to answer the question of what Kassandra will do with the rest of her life....

At one point during the gameplay demo, player character Kassandra gets in a conversation with a male and female NPC who need her help. In this conversation and other conversations like these, players will have a selection of dialogue options. One of these options, as screenshotted in the image below, allows Kassandra to ask if the two NPCs are a couple and it’s this that has sparked discussion about whether Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will include romance gameplay....

Before yesterday’s (admittedly lackluster) gameplay reveal, it would’ve made sense to have these questions answered in the trailer–yet all it included were gameplay videos captured on Xbox Series X. So instead, fans can examine other aspects of gameplay that have already been confirmed: elements such as settlement building, a “unique” story structure, the choice of player character, and more. RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Won’t Take as Long as Odyssey to Beat...

RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids - The Spider Location (The Children of Danu) Of course, there are some Cursed Symbols found in Ireland thanks to the Wrath of the Druids DLC, which feels appropriate given the source of these dark instruments is a more terrifying form of Celtic magic. Some can be avoided, however, the one at Tullagh Laght is a high-priority one to take out, as it obscures an area that overlaps with a Viewpoint and generally just makes it much harder to find things and fight foes....

Fans have been anticipating the addition of level scaling to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and Ubisoft is about to add the feature to the game. The level scaling that Ubisoft will be adding to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla goes beyond simply enabling and disabling the feature, though. Fans of Valhalla who are looking for some additional challenge will be able to set the level scaling to constant, harder, or nightmarish. RELATED: Rumor: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Siege of Paris DLC Release Date Possibly Leaked...

The space rock that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction, known as the Chicxulub impactor, is thought to have slammed into our planet about 66 million years ago. The asteroid, around 10 kilometers wide, produced a blast equal to 100 million megatons that devastated the Gulf of Mexico region, triggered a mass extinction event and produced a crater around 180 kilometers across. Scientists have previously questioned where the Chicxulub impactor came from and how often impacts like it have occurred....

The vaccine, which was created by British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, was approved for use in the U.K. in December and across the 27 member states of the European Union the following month. However, as shown in the Statista graphic below, countries including Austria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden have all suspended the AstraZeneca vaccine’s use over the past week, after reports that a small number of people had developed blood clots after receiving it....

Chris Correa initially was scheduled to be sentenced in a Houston court on April 11, the same day the Astros host the Royals and the Cardinals host the Brewers in their respective home openers. MORE: Every team’s greatest Opening Day performance Now, the Chronicle noted, “the Astros can enjoy the pomp without sharing a news cycle with the perp.” Correa, a former Cardinals executive, pleaded guilty to five felony counts for hacking into the Astros database....

Since the inception of the Sporting News Player of the Year award in 1936, it has been a rarity for a second baseman to be named the best in the game. It took until 1960 for Bill Mazeroski to win the award at the keystone sack, then another decade and a half went by before Joe Morgan went back-to-back in 1975 and 1976. The only other second baseman to win was Ryne Sandberg in 1984....

Houston, we have payback. The Astros ripped the Royals 8-2 in their home opener Monday, their first game at Minute Maid Park since suffering a heartbreaking loss to the Royals in Game 4 of the ALDS last season. MORE: Every team’s longest-tenured player Jose Altuve, George Springer, Carlos Correa and Colby Rasmus combined for 10 the Astros’ season-high 14 hits. Houston also set a season high for runs. Rasmus, who enjoyed a breakout postseason last year, went deep Monday against Chris Young for his third home run in three games....

Gomez, who has been resting a strained left intercostal muscle, said Monday he’s ready to start Tuesday night in the Bronx. MORE: MLB playoff picks | World Series odds from Las Vegas “I’ve prepared myself,” he told the Houston Chronicle on Monday. “I had some days of rest to play tomorrow. I’ll come ready to play tomorrow, to start the game tomorrow. That’s what I’m prepared for. That’s based on what they’re telling me....

The Astros sacked general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch after the duo were suspended following an MLB investigation into allegations of sign stealing. Luhnow and Hinch were given year-long bans by MLB while Houston were fined $5million and have been forced to forfeit their first and second-round picks in the 2020 and 2021 drafts. In a statement, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said the Astros were warned about the league’s policies on sign stealing in September 2017 and “took no action” to comply with these during their run to a maiden World Series title later that season....

Speaking to Kayla Braxton on WWE’s The Bump, Asuka stated that she was overjoyed for her colleague and believes that Lynch, too, is happy with her holding the Championship. Asuka promises to work harder Asuka then went on to state that she wants to be the kind of Champion who forces the fans to be invested in the Women’s Division. Asuka became the new RAW Women’s Championship after The Man handed the Title to the Money in the Bank winner, before revealing that she has to go away for a while as she is about to become a mother....