The Crawfish Boxes · Jan 4, 2020
Astros trades under Luhnow: A checkered past
Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY SportsWord on the baseball street is: don’t trade with Jeff Luhnow. He’s diabolical. He’s a wizard. He’ll outsmart you every time.
How else could the Astros have been the best team in baseball the last three years?
Well...
Last off-season I wrote a nine-part evaluation of the Astros trades from 2014-2018, the building phase of the Luhnow tenure. (as opposed to the tear-down phase) The articles are below.
I count sixteen trades during this period of varying degrees of importance. Some were insignificant or had a neutral impact, three were wildly successful, and I count seven in which the Astros lost two or more wins as a result,
The Losers