"Thanks, everybody. I feel real weird about tonight."

Bill Murray's character, Frank Cross in the holiday classic Scrooged said that line when he first started getting visited by ghosts and is disoriented when dropped back into reality. In some ways, that feels like the Astros right now: still very good, but without a bunch of players, while adding new ones, and not exactly sure what to do.

It's an unenviable position for manager Joe Espada who seemingly rolls out a new lineup every night bouncing players around like pinballs, while his rotation includes names like Jason Alexander. The uncertainty, nevermind the 18 players who were on the IL as recently as Friday, has led to a string of bad series and allowed Seattle and Dallas to close the gap in the AL West.

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