Chip has been traveling for the last several days, so Brian Todd steps up with some key questions as the off season enters a key phase. • •• ••• •• • It didn’t have to be this way. Forty-five games into the 2012 season, I would have bet—and I hate gambling—bet real money that the Astros would finish with a better record than they had in 2011. At 22-23, the Astros only needed to go 35-82 in the remaining 117 games to top 2011’s record. In that 45th game, J.D. Martinez took Clayton Kershaw deep with a man on base. Lucas Harrell outdueled the reigning Cy Young winner leading Houston _Read More