The Crawfish Boxes · Sep 18, 2018
Playoff Planning: Which Pitchers Will Make the Playoff Roster?
The Astros’ playoff chances continue to chug along at essentially a certainty (Fangraphs has it at 100%, with a 99.2%chance at taking the AL West), so we’ll continue to look at possible configurations of the playoff roster. Last time we focused on position players, so this time we’ll be looking at the team’s pitching options.
Based on the numbers from last time, we have eleven or twelve roster spots open for pitchers. That lines up pretty neatly with the playoff roster from last year, which featured eleven arms in the Division Series, then added Collin McHugh for the final two rounds.