Astros HOF Index: Playing with a purpose— Catching

Erik Williams-USA TODAY SportsThere are any number of ways to treat this season and we will likely get into all of them. The best way I can describe any baseball season is the desire to play with a purpose. In most Astro seasons (certainly since 2015) the purpose is to win games and win a championship. Every team should be on that path. Yet, as we sit here in June we have to face the reality that this likely won’t happen this season.

We can wax poetic about 2005 and coming from 15-30 to win the pennant. There are two undeniable facts about that season. First, that almost never happens. You’d have to go back to the 1914 Boston Braves before finding a similar team with a similar result.…