The New Kid in Town: Collin McHugh

New kid? He’s one of veterans of the Astros Dark Ages, Astros alumnus since 2014. Before Springer, before Correa, before that first playoff run. When the World Champions were bad.

But he’s a kid again. He’s a New McHugh, a whole new approach, a whole new level of success in a new role.

Maybe we should call this Collin McHugh the New, New McHugh, because the Collin McHugh, who was so outstanding for the Astros in 2014 and 2015, was not the same McHugh that Jeff Luhnow picked up off the waiver wire trash heap in December 2013. Famously, the Astros’ analytics department saw something special in his spin rate, and McHugh was transformed into one of the most vicious curve ball twirlers in MLB.

So…