A Couple of Notes About the Astros

Shortstop Jeremy Pena (3) is unable to cleanly field the throw during the first inning on April 16 and Braves’ runner Ronald Acuna is safe at 2d base.As we hope for the Astros to start chipping away at the team’s poor Win% in 2024, let’s look at a couple of issues which may be relevant to the team’s start to this season. The first issue is the team’s defense, which has been sub-par, to put it politely, to start this season. The second issue pertains to a Fangraphs’ article about Alex Bregman’s loss of power in the early going.

Team Defense

It’s customary in any article about April baseball stats to warn the reader about small sample size. And that probably should go doubly for fielding…