The Crawfish Boxes

Jake Meyers slides into third base at Fenway Park. | Eric Canha-Imagn Images Statcast indicates the Astros aren’t very good at baserunning. Will the Astros address this in 2025? Baserunning is a component of teams’ ability to score runs. But it’s a smaller component than the more obvious skills like walks, hits, extra base hits, and home runs. For this reason, … [Read more...] about Do the Astros need to improve baserunning?

Jason Heyward | Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images Jason Heyward only had 61 regular season plate appearances with Houston, but had solid positive impact in that time. Throughout the 2024 offseason, we’re going over each of the players to appear with the Astros in a regular season game. I’m using BF and ERA+ for the pitchers and PA with OPS+ … [Read more...] about Jason Heyward, the 31st-most positively impactful Astro of 2024

Hunter Brown | Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images Welcome to the Tuesday Boil! It’s an October Tuesday and baseball’s almost gone. But only for a while, and only in some places. After all, the Arizona Fall League is running and the Dominican Winter League will be kicking off soon enough. Plus we always have OOTP. (If you don’t you should look it … [Read more...] about Astros Crawfish Boil: October 29, 2024

John Jones-Imagn Images The Dodgers are up 2-0 and injured Shohei will start. Watch on Fox … [Read more...] about World Series Game 3 Thread. Oct 28, 2024, 7:08 CT

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images With possibly limited resources this offseason, why prioritize another reliever from outside the organization? Generally, I dislike signing relievers to significant contracts from a club’s perspective. But there are instances when, much like last year’s Astros with Josh Hader, a team identifies a need and downplays the financial … [Read more...] about Do The Astros Actually Need To Acquire Another Leverage Reliever?