On the negative side, the Astros were a winning organization until the 2010-2014 years. We hovered around .500 and are currently sitting at an all-time .491 winning percentage. It will take another 4+ seasons of winning at this pace to make-up for those years.
If the Astros get shutout for the entirety of the rest of the season we will have scored more runs than 18 of our previous teams not including strike shortened seasons.
The full-season record for both runs scored in a season (en route to break it this year) and least runs given up were both losing seasons. Jose Altuve could go 0-50 and still lead the league in BA
Just in case you're thinking about freaking out: -The 2016 Cubs went 5-15 from June 20 - July 9 and saw their lead cut from 12.5 to 6.5 games. -The 2015 Royals went 8-16 from September 4 - September 29. -The 2014 Giants went 7-20 from June 9 - July 8 and saw their 10-game lead evaporate to 0.5 games in that span. -The 2013 Red Sox went 4-10 between April 30 - May 14 -The 2012 Giants went 6-10 between July 25 - August 10. We could do this all day. What do the above teams have in common? They all won the World Series that year. http://www.astroscounty.com/2017/08/thursday-morning-hot-links.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...t-record-playoffs-gfx-20160916-htmlstory.html Since the beginning of the wild card era only four of the 26 teams with the top record went on to win the World Series: The 1998 and 2009 Yankees, and the 2007 and 2013 Red Sox. That's 7 percent.
Ah... and huh? In the end, based on recent trends, it still could benefit one to be the best team in baseball... and this article does nothing but to highlight what we already know (that anything can and will happen in the playoffs).
Lots of good stuff in this article.... http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20273239/why-all-root-astros-dodgers-world-series
From the article... It's mind-bottingly how good the team is; don't let the passing of arbitrary deadlines trick you into thinking otherwise...
Tell that to the Braves... One thing I know is, it takes scoring to win a baseball game. It is also hard to know the difference between great pitching and poor hitting. I'm going to go with they are both pretty important.
Yep. Having 3 MVP candidates batting at the top of the lineup 4-5x/game... plus career years from Marwin, Yuli, Reddick, Jake (with Bregman coming on strong)..... = historic offense that may just prove that you can hit your way towards a title.
Looking at our batting splits, more specifically our August numbers, we are a tale of two clubs. The terrible and the great. Great: (>.300) Juan Centeno (4AB) Tyler White Yuli Gurriel Alex Bregman Carlos Beltran Jose Altuve Josh Reddick Marwin Gonzalez Terrible: (<.155) Derek Fisher Brian McCann J.D. Davis (7AB) Jake Marisnick Evan Gattis AJ Reed (4AB) So, everybody is above .300 or below .155? Weird.
