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Baseball writer Zachary Levine offers up the key themes to watch for during the 2012 season.

The Astros open a three game series in L.A. tonight against Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers.

Even though we have yet to reach June, trade speculation has already begun to run rampant in the baseball world, as the buyers and sellers become more and more clear with each passing day and contenders' needs also become more obvious.

Jon Paul Morosi is a national MLB writer for FOXSports.com. He previously covered baseball for the Detroit Free Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer . He began his journalism career at the Bay City Times in his native Michigan.

Martinez had the go-ahead RBI single in the sixth inning and Jose Altuve had a solo homer to give the Houston Astros a 2-1 win over the Chicago Cubs.

The Houston Astros have officially played over a quarter of their schedule and sit at a respectable 19-23. It's not a great record, mind you, but it's worlds better than the 15-27 they were at this time last season.

The games count and technically have an effect on a team's postseason aspirations, but the Lone Star Series since its inception in 2001 has had a novelty feel to it.

Justin Maxwell hit one of Houston's season-high three homers to put his team on top in the fifth inning and the Astros held on for a 6-5 win over the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.

Two big wind farm projects canceled in the state Marlins defeat Pirates, 6-2 Bayer wants repairs to iconic Pittsburgh sign Phillies 4, Astros 3: Hunter Pence atoned for a ninth-inning error by hitting his second home run of the game, a solo shot in the 10th that lifted Philadelphia past visiting Houston.

I was checking out Twitter last evening and saw a tweet from J.P. Breen, a writer for Disciples of Uecker, and he asked whether Brewers starter Zack Greinke was an ace.

It wasn't supposed to happen this way. Jake Diekman's first big league appearance was supposed to be a low-pressure situation, one in which the Phillies were ahead by a bunch of runs.

On the verge of their longest losing streak of the season, the Houston Astros might be thankful that it's Bud Norris ' turn in the rotation.

As both feet landed on the plate, his face contorted under the conflict of disparate emotions, like a man who found $100 on the street after hitting a dog with his car.

Jake Peavy is a major trade candidate, but will the White Sox part with him if they have a shot at a wild-card berth? Jason Miller/Getty Images When Major League Baseball finalized its decision to incorporate a second wild card berth into the league's postseason format, everyone realized that things were going to be very different going forward.

Hunter Pence's second home run of the game, a line-shot to left in the bottom of the 10th inning, sent Philadelphia over Houston by a 4-3 count to sweep a two-game series.

This was a very fun list to compile because while many of these pitchers are not well known, on a "pure stuff" level, they rank among the best in baseball.

Maybe we'll play a baseball game today. A If so, here's somebody who knows something about the Astros to correct our ignorance.

Houston's Wandy Rodriguez wanted to finish the game. Manager Brad Mills felt he was quite capable of doing so but lifted him anyway.

The Astros would have to win the next 44 games in a row for Brad Mills to match Cecil Cooper's winning percentage.