Connor Nielen
@ConnorNielen
Connor has been writing for Rant Sports since March of 2011. He is a meticulous Fantasy Sports enthusiast, currently attending Wilfrid Laurier University's School of Business & Economics. His favourite teams include the Buffalo Sabres, Boston Red Sox, Tennessee Titans, Michigan Wolverines football program, and Houston Astros. Formerly the site's Houston Astros Featured Columnist, Connor currently serves as a part-time freelance contributor due to personal obligations.
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Is This The Year?
Thanks for visiting RoyalsTreatment.com! If you have yet to see the inaugural Royals Treatment post, you can check it out right here. It is an absolutely undeniable truth- the Kansas City Royals have been a very bad ball-club. It is painful to think about what the team’s fans have endured throughout the past couple [...]
TweetInaugural ‘Royals Treatment’ Post
Welcome to RoyalsTreatment.com – the exclusive Kansas City Royals coverage site of www.RantSports.com – thanks for reading! Please follow our Twitter page @RoyalsTreatment to keep up-to-date on all of our posts about anything & everything Royals- every follower is greatly appreciated! It is common for baseball fans to be a little overly optimistic about their [...]
TweetSpring Training Update – Part 1
Astros Opening Day is just over a week away! Houston is a combined 10-18 in its Spring Training games, but of course, wins & losses are meaningless right now as the focus is on preparing for the immense work-load of a 162-game season while developing a clear understanding of the kind of team you have [...]
TweetMeet Mr. Anonymity
Baseball statistics have progressed remarkably over the past few decades. The ‘Moneyball’ theories orchestrated by Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane shed light on a series of revolutionary methods for measuring athletic performance and expedited the philosophical emphasis that has now been placed on alternative numerical analysis. I admit that certain aspects of advanced sabermetrics stretch [...]
TweetAstros Name Brett Myers Opening Day Starter
Brad Mills has officially named Brett Myers his Opening Day starting pitcher. The Astros first game will come on April 1st in Philadelphia. The decision was seemingly inevitable considering Myers’ veteran track record (he started 3 consecutive Opening Days as a member of the Phillies) and really should not come as too much of a [...]
TweetFor Sale: The Houston Astros
After nearly 20 years of throwing himself into the smorgasbord that is pro-franchise ownership, enduring both the gruels and pains, and sweet joys and highs that go hand-in-hand, CEO Drayton McLane Jr. has decided he’s ready to step away from his beloved Houston franchise, privately putting the team up for sale. Although never winning [...]
TweetMajor Improvements Almost Ready At Minute Maid Park
Houston’s baseball palace, Minute Maid Park, will be looking mighty fine when the team arrives home for its opening affair with the Marlins on April 8th. Significant upgrades (most notably a 6,695-square-foot high-definition scoreboard) have been poured into the stadium over the off-season. In addition to the crystal-clear behemoth in right-field, a second scoreboard has [...]
TweetCastro Likely Out For Season: Examining The Options
The Astros first-round pick in the 2008 draft (10th overall), Jason Castro, left a Spring Training game earlier in the month after injuring his leg attempting to avoid a tag from Miguel Cabrera. The game served as the first Houston win of this Grapefruit League season, (6-3 over the Detroit Tigers) but came at a [...]
TweetAstros Struggle In Early Grapefruit League Action
Original Posting Date: Friday, March 4, 2011 The Astros are surely hoping that their initial Spring Training results aren’t an indication of what to expect when the calendar flips a page and the games start to count. While a few bright spots glimmered in their opening home-and-home series with the Atlanta Braves, the pair of [...]
TweetDon’t Sleep On Brad’s Bunch (Inaugural Post)
Welcome to the inaugural season of HoustonHotbed.com – the exclusive Houston Astros coverage site of www.RantSports.com – thanks for reading! Playing in a wide-open N.L. Central, second-year manager Brad Mills has plenty of reason to be confident about his Houston Astros’ prospective fortunes surrounding 2011. Mills finished last season, his first a major league manager, [...]
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