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I’m going to preface this entire post with the statement that putting together a Houston package for James Paxton was extremely difficult and, for that reason, I now find Big Maple opening 2019 as a member of the Houston Astros even less likely than when Ken Rosenthal broke that Houston was one of many teams discussing the Canadian hurler with the Mariners.