How Many Altuves?

2016-02-14T16:37:00.000-05:00

Out of the Park Baseball

2013-04-11T10:20:00.000-04:00

The fine folks over at Out of the Park Baseball were kind enough to let me preview OOTP 14. I've been a fan of this series for several years now, and the newest installment in incredible! I'll be posting a review in the next few days, in which I will essentially sim Jose Altuve's career, highlighting his "accomplishments" along the way.

If you're interested in experiencing what I consider to be the most realistic, in-depth, and immersive baseball sim out there today, I have a link in the upper left of this site where you can pre-order. The game releases tomorrow, April 12th for those who pre-order, and April 15th for everyone else.

Too Many Altuves Award - April 7

2013-04-10T18:37:00.000-04:00

I'm a little late in posting the first of this season's weekly Too Many Altuves awards for longest home run of the week. The first winner of 2013 is Colby Rasmus, for this 86.4 Altuve blast to center on Saturday, hit off of Alfredo Aceves to help fuel Toronto's 5-0 win over Boston.

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Rick Ankiel first on the board in 2013

2013-04-01T08:51:00.000-04:00

Nobody on Twitter or Facebook predicted Rick Ankiel would be the first to homer this season. His shot to right off Derek Lowe went almost 69 Altuves to give Houston a 7-2 lead en route to a 8-2 win over the Rangers.

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HMA at MMP

2013-03-18T10:58:00.001-04:00

Attention Houston area fans! How Many Altuves will be the featured guest at Minute Maid Park this July. Make sure you pick up your HMA shirt from the Astros team store before the event! Exact date will be determined soon. Stay tuned!

Astros new HMA shirts

2013-02-27T13:50:00.000-05:00

As cool as it is to see my little project make the big time like this, I just want to point out that this is a complete surprise to me and I was not consulted in any way.

Last but not least my favorite new @astros shirt, "how many altuves." twitter.com/KellyKGeorge/s…
— Kelly George (@KellyKGeorge) February 27, 2013

Altuve supporter trying for MLB Fan Cave

2013-02-11T16:29:00.000-05:00

Remember this bit of awesomeness that came out of the MLB Fan Cave last year?

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Want to help a fan get in on some of that action? Well, Jay Ducote is the only Astros fan to be named one of 52 finalists to join the Fan Cave this year, and How Many Altuves is officially endorsing his candidacy. You have until February 13 to help us get Jay to Spring Training to be one of 30 finalists to be chosen to audition. Go vote for our newest friend!

Jay is a fellow blogger, sharing his thoughts on great food and drink over at biteandbooze.com so I thought we'd cook up some specially crafted Altuve conversions to show our support. One of the more celebrated craft breweries in the Houston area is Saint Arnold. This oldest craft brewing operation in Texas set a record for themselves in 2012 by shipping 49,119 barrels of liquid gold. Each barrel holds about 1.75 cubic Altuves, so that's an impressive 86,000 cubic Altuves of historic Texas craft beer!

How Many Altuves Baseball Card

2013-01-30T08:06:00.002-05:00

As a kid I always dreamed of being featured on a baseball card! Thanks to Topps for the shoutout on the back of Altuve's card!

Hi Reddit

2012-10-03T08:33:00.001-04:00

From the Man Himself

2012-09-04T10:57:00.003-04:00

Jose stopped by the MLB Fan Cave a couple weeks ago along with teammates Bud Norris and Lucas Harrell. While there, the trio got a little curious about just how big the Fan Cave really is.

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Too Many Altuves Award - July 22

2012-07-22T10:13:00.001-04:00

The winner of this week's Too Many Altuves award for the longest home run of the week belongs to Michael Morse. His July 20th blast off Tommy Hanson set a record for longest home run at Nationals Park, as it flew 85.8 Altuves.

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Too Many Altuves - July 15

2012-07-15T13:42:00.003-04:00

The winner of this week's Too Many Altuves award for longest home run goes to Edwin Encarnacion. His July 14th homer off Jeremy Accardo in Toronto (his second of the game, and the second one show in the embedded video) flew 86.2 Altuves.to the restaurant in the Rogers Centre.

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Too Many Altuves - July 8

2012-07-08T13:27:00.001-04:00

We have a new longest homer to feature for this week's Too Many Altuves award for longest home run of the week. Cameron Maybin's sixth inning blast off Arizona's Trevor Cahill on July 2nd traveled 89.5 Altuves. This blast flew .2 Altuves further than the previous distance leader.

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Too Many Altuves - July 1

2012-07-01T12:38:00.000-04:00

The winner of this week's Too Many Altuves award for longest home run belongs to Ryan Ludwick for his June 27th blast in Cincinnati. His 9th inning home run off Milwaukee's Livan Hernandez flew 86.6 Altuves over the wall in left center.

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Too Many Altuves Award - June 24

2012-06-24T22:07:00.000-04:00

The winner of this week's Too Many Altuves Award, for longest home run of the week, is Justin Upton. His 5th inning home run at Chase Field off of Seattle's Jason Vargas traveled 84.4 Altuves over the left-center field wall.

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Too Many Altuves Award -June 17

2012-06-17T22:15:00.002-04:00

The winner of this week's Too Many Altuves award is Mark Trumbo with this blast off of Christian Friedrich on June 10th during Los Angeles' interleague visit to Coors Field. His 1st inning shot to left flew 84.7 Altuves.

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Too Many Altuves Award - June 10th

2012-06-10T18:36:00.001-04:00

This week's winner of the Too Many Altuves Award is Nelson Cruz. This 89.3 Altuve bomb against division rival Los Angeles is the longest of the year so far.

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Quick note

2012-06-05T21:04:00.002-04:00

There has been a fair amount of interest in an official "How Many Altuves" t-shirt. We are in the planning stages and should have something available soon.

Introducing the "Too Many Altuves" award

2012-06-02T18:42:00.000-04:00

The "Too Many Altuves" award will be given each week to the batter that hits the furthest home run for the previous seven day period.

The inaugural Too Many Altuves award goes to Justin Maxwell, for this 87 Altuve bomb off of Alex White on 5/28.

Here's Maxwell's shot off of Alex White on 5/28.

*Note: Paul Goldschmidt was originally co-winner for this week but his home run distance was revised, stripping him of his share of this prestigious award.