All season long we’ve heard about how great the Astros are, how amazing that offense is. As annoying as that talk is, there’s some truth to it. The Astros led all of baseball in K%, BB%, and wRC+. They had a team 125 wRC+ and a home 136 wRC+ which is insane. To explain how incredible that is, DJ LeMahieu had a 136 wRC+ on the year. At home, they are literally a team of DJ LeMahieu’s at the plate.
So how do you pitch to them? Jay Jaffe at FanGraphs had a great article previewing the series.