For the last several weeks on Talking Stros, we have discussed who the Astros were targeting. We considered adding Brian McCann and Josh Reddick, and the Astros added those two left-handed bats. The biggest discussion centered around Edwin Encarnacion versus Carlos Beltran. While adding Encarnacion to the middle of the lineup would have been awesome, Beltran made more sense. Even after adding McCann and Reddick, the batting order was very right-handed.
This is why Encarnacion didn’t make sense, for now. The Astros needed the switch hitter more to balance their lineup.