Every daily dose of Yordan post from 2021:

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As all of you know, the Astros lost game 6 of the world series yesterday in a 7-0 blowout, bringing a disappointing end to what was a season with immense hope and triumph all throughout the year. Not only did this end the Astros season and the baseball year as a whole, it also means that after 160 games, 537 at bats, and one of the greatest single postseason series of all time, the story of Yordan Alvarez's 2021 season is complete, closing the book on my original project that started one sunny March evening when I watched him return against the A's with a double off the wall after a year of absence. There's a lot to unpack, so first let's start with the positives.

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First off a huge thank you to the Astros community, both the server as well as the Discord and a few fans on Twitter. When I started this series, I wasn't exactly sure how it would be received, due to me being a Dodgers fan still not completely over what happened in 2017, and the general perception of Astros fans in r/Baseball and other subreddits. However the graciousness and empathy of the community completely surprised me, to the point where towards the end of the year during the playoffs I would spend the entirety of the game in the Astros Discord interacting with the many great members of this community. I even checked out the Astros after dark server for a second (Not a good idea to do so, but contact u/HanSoes for more on that). While I still can't really watch highlights of the 2017 world series without physically feeling ill, I have forgiven all of the members of that team, and as a result I have found solace in that year. For that I am forever grateful to you guys.

In addition, I'd like to thank everyone who commented, helped, or even upvoted any one of the posts I made this year. Your feedback and insight helped me continue this series well past what I thought I would be doing it, even during Yordan's many in season cold streaks. Special commendation to u/CircusHazards, who went to pretty much every Astros postseason game (at least from what I saw) and was a big reason I continued to write throughout the ALDS and CS despite a heavy load at work.

Also would like to shoutout my buddy u/Braves2248, who's discussion with me about Yordan in early 2020 led to my discovery of the Astros subreddit and the idea for starting this series. He also owns one of the greatest Yordan baseball card collections known to man, highly suggest you check it out.

And finally while he's probably never read one of these write ups or plans to, I'd like to thank r/Rockets legend u/Deerontherocks, whose daily "Shoot 3's" Rockets videos from 2018-2019 served as the blueprint for this series. Also his Ryan Anderson tribute video is one of the greatest single animations I have ever seen.

With that out of the way we now need to talk about what went wrong in the year, and my plans for the future of this series.

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While it was a great year and a great season for Yordan, many of you may have noticed that I didn't write a single world series analysis or series preview for him. Part of this was me getting absolutely pounded at work that week, and another part of that was Yordan being completely lost in the games I did get to watch. It was a total aberration for him, and I'm sure he will take this lesson and move forwards to become a better hitter. Hopefully anyone who was looking for a WS DDoY understands why there weren't any.

As for the future of this series going into next year, I'm not quite sure. Currently it's dependent on a bet with u/HanSoes over Correa re-signing in Houston. It's been an amazing year and I will cherish the memories and friendships gained along the ride, but I know for sure that I won't have the time for daily analysis. It may disappoint some of you, but I feel like this series was always meant to be a short term thing, chronicling one bored man's ramblings throughout the year. It was fun as hell but also became extremely time consuming and tiring at times. Some users have suggested trying a "Weekly dose of Yordan", but I'm not sure if that would have the same reception as this series did. I might do something like this for Jeremy Pena when he gets called up if Correa leaves, but that's a talk for a different time. I will continue to be active in the Discord and Subreddit though, as the people I've met here and relationships I've grown are things I will cherish for the foreseeable future.

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Once again, I'd like to thank everyone in this subreddit (and the other platforms) for the journey it took to get here. It probably wasn't easy to accept a Dodgers fan as one of your own, but you did, so thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my opinion and analyze my favorite hitter every day, without any pre-emptive biases. It's definitely disappointing for 178 games of a season (almost 100 Yordan Alvarez games analyzed for me) to end the way it did, but I guess it just wasn't in the cards. I guess we'll see what happens with Correa, and in 4 months, there will be a new season to watch and overreact to.

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Until then, go Yordan and go Astros.

EDIT: I would also like to see a Yordan flair added in the subreddit, hopefully before I die.