Me again! No you didn't miss a week, the Holidays have consumed Peter so your all in luck and get the former World Series champions the Houston Astros. Don't worry we will be back to normal next week with the NL teams. This years Astros may not be as good as they were last year in terms of offense but the pitching was among the best in the league if not the best. They managed to win 103 games this year and blew through the Indians in the Playoffs. It was difficult to get past Boston's line up as you guys saw last week and they came up short this year. They still are a great team with big name players that I'm sure will get drafted. Make sure to listen to our break down on the Itunes podcast where we go in depth into each player.
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How did the offense look this year for the Astros.
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Not too shabby there on offense but you can see the drop off in a handful of players. Where they went down the pitching staff went up. The pitching staff in terms of showdown was only behind the Cleveland Indians in terms of value.
That is why they are second best in the league. All 4 starters are draftable and will find there way onto many teams including the close runner up Justin Verlander. If you need to then you can go into the bullpen for the Astros which had 3 very draftable players and maybe interesting value for the others.
And that everyone is the 2018 Houston Astros! Who will you be drafting? What players did you like and dislike? As always follow me on twitter
BobBumbarger and make sure to listen to the podcast.
Poor Altuve 13 bombs last year an no homer
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately he was three short of earning a HR for an OB 10. Good news is there's a lot of pitchers with HR on their own charts in the set (pitchers really struggled this year), so he'll undoubtedly have some chances in this set anyway!
Deleteintresting you have a different HR formula for each on base as opposed to a benchmark number
ReplyDeleteWell, all the card creation is based on probability. Accordingly, the higher a player's on-base, the more charts the player will probably get. Therefore, if a guy with an on-base 10 and on-base 6 who both hit 30 HRs had the same HR ranges, the guy with the 10 would hit WAY more HRs than the 6. That's why the HR formulas have to change based on On-Base, otherwise things would get really whacky, really fast!
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