Last week, I took a look at offensive efficiency. Generally, the idea was to look at the number of base runners a team has and the percentage of those base runners that come home to score. We saw that the Astros percentage has been lower than in year’s past and that it ranks in the bottom ten in the league in that category. So, there can be no doubt that the Astros offense is not an efficient one.
From there, there were some possible explanations given in the article and in the comments. First, we should explore whether this team’s offense is in fact worse than it has been and in what categories it is worse.